Large group presentations

[Jessica Boucher]

Back in the day (!) in 98, our faculy advisor (a TechEd teacher) recruited by having an assembly and then going to random classrooms to talk to the students for 5 minutes. I'll say it again, I was pulled out of a history class...so just get out there and keep recruiting!

[ngreen]

I would say instead of a assembly set up a booth during lunch in which you run one or two of the exciting videos. Make up application sheets and gives them to people who are interested. Give some general requirements like 2 to 3 teacher's recommendations and a couple short answers. Nothings that will scare them away to much but you will want to have members of your teams dedicated. You might mention the dedication it's going to take (6 weeks). But also throw in the trip to regionals for good measure.

And definitely get the school's teachers and administrator's on boards. Not just math and science too. One of the english teacher's helps us revise our chairman's award entry. And shop teachers are good too. You always could use a good student welder.

I don't have any short videos. Our i-movie we showed in our pit last year was nearly 30 minutes long.

Oh yeah, for our first year we had two students that kind of started it (me and another) we ended up going off teacher reccomendations and then asking the students reccomended. We gave them like a day to make up their mind. We had to have names to put on the NASA grant application the next day so the process was kind of hurried. And not completely sure. "Do you want to be on a robotics team if NASA gives us 10,000?" I don't know what we would have done without that grant, It worked out though.

Good luck.