How to get more students involved in business?

[Brian Maher]

There was a thread a while ago about recruiting business students. From my experience, the most effective way to grow a team's business subteam is to actively recruit students with interest in being part of it. I summed up my thoughts on the matter in this comment:

Originally Posted by BMSOTM

Last year, 1257 recruitment flyers that we handed out at our school's club fair listed a mix of technical (design, programming, electrical) and non-technical (business, fundraising, video-making, PR) tasks that our team would tackle. A lot of people just don't know the sheer variety of skills that it take to run a successful FRC team. Less tech-y students hear "robotics" and think there's no place for them, when that couldn't be more wrong.

In addition, while I strongly advise encouraging tech-focused students to try working with business projects, I would be careful about any policy forcing involvement with business. Some students just aren't interested in business, and making them do it may deter them from being involved on the team as a whole.