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Re: How to get more students involved in business?
A good way to get more interest in the "Business" side is to recruit students specifically for that! Make sure you are advertising your team as more than robots.
It is also helpful to start at the top. Mentors and team leaders need to ensure their actions show the importance of things beyond the "Engineering" side of the team. If all aspects of the team are done by team leaders and respected by team mentors, students are more inclined to put work into both areas.
Something else that can cause a lack of cohesion between the two divisions is physically separating the two groups (e.g. Engineering works in this room, and Business works in this room). Ensuring that everyone sees the work that is happening can be really helpful for promoting respect for & interest in Business-related aspects of the team. Make sure the entire team know what both groups are working on as well! Communication is really important here.
Someone also mentioned trying to organize the year so there is little "Business" overlap in the build season. This is really great advice if you want to encourage team members to be involved in all aspects!
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I knew that the students on our team really understood what FIRST was all about when, two years later, our unofficial team motto changed from "we want to BEAT Chief Delphi" to "we want to BE Chief Delphi." - dlavery [more] 
05-08-2016, 19:15
I was also thinking we can have members assigned to various projects which span across multiple subdivisions rather than restrict them individually to these subdivisions.
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