Getting our assistant principle involved

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by Fields

Hey gang,

We are a second year team now, but after our team lead (and school teacher) went to another school and the assistant principle retired, I've been left as the only mentor with any experience.

Thankfully, we've been able to recruit another mentor, and there are a couple of teachers who are interested in the program (but not yet committed).

Best of all, the new assistant principle IS on board with the team, and even with no experience with FRC, she wants to help in any way possible. (run-on sentence?)

Our official team kickoff is the first part of November. What are some ideas on how she can get buy in from teachers and promote student recruitment?

• We have 5-6 students from last year that can help

• At this point, she's my only real contact at the school

• Looking for general ideas like setting up a booth at lunch that the students can use

• Also looking for ideas specific to her position like going through the correct procedures for setting up an after school club and how to get parent permissions on record.

• Really want ideas on how to get more teacher commitments (I believe her role would be a big help in this)

I don't work at the school so while I can get things going in the engineering process during the season, I don't know what goes into making everything work at the school.

I'm working on kickoff ideas for our first day, but we would really like to start out with 15-20 interested students (fingers crossed (pain to type like this)) and a few teachers.

Excited for Water Game 2016!

My first question is, why is your team kickoff so late?