Recruitment

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We cast a wide net when it comes to recruiting freshmen. The first thing to do is talk with the middle school FLL teams and let them know the "next level" of robots is your team. Secondly, we go to virtually EVERY freshman event at the start of the school year: freshman orientation, freshman registration, freshman frozen yogurt party (evening before school starts), etc. Word of mouth works wonders for recruitment too. We have our team members invite their friends and/or younger siblings, and or younger siblings' friends -- you get the picture.

Usually you'll get more interest initially than you'll have dedicated students, so don't be disappointed if half the new recruits don't stick around. we usually shed about half the students initial interest to build season.