How to Get New Members to Stay?

[Sperkowsky]

This is not something my team has mastered but we have improved.

We realized we needed more members this year as we were becoming increasingly small.

We had about 50 members show up to our first day. 10 of them previous members. The first day we did a keynote style run down of what we do. The second day we kicked it off with quick training on basic hand tools and power tools. We had about 35 people come to that. We then kicked off our offseason project involving building a brand new robot and competing with it at an offseason. Throughout that sub season we had about 20 people there. By the season I would say we had about 25 people on our team.

My biggest reccomendation is that you have one person accurately delegating responsibilities. Members leave when they get bored and get bored when they don't have something to do.

Also make sure people are trained early so they know what they are doing and don't feel behind everyone.