What does everyone do about large members involvement?

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by WebWader125

We've also tried to get students involved in some of the areas outside robot construction, but we generally find that they're less interested in other areas. Any suggestions on how to keep students motivated, and feeling part of the team, if they're not directly involved in the construction?

We have 29 students on the book, but generally 15 show up on a good day.

Our rule is they must do something robotically related, and something "other related".

In practice, there's a member who doesn't care to work on the robot, and most of the guys don't want to do anything but something robotically related.

[Terminator6]

Our team divides up work on many levels, we have 4 different parts of the team itself, they are : Operations, Marketing, Graphics, Engineering...Engineering = Robot if you couldnt guess...

within each team we have divisions...or well whenever there are a lot of students we do...for instance marketing has two people..so they really dont need that much organization...however graphics has nine and robot has 15+ (dont remember exactally)...

robot divides itself up into teams representing an aspect of the robot...base, control, hanging, and driveby (10 pt ball), these all change from year to year based on the game

attracting new students can leave you dumbfounded if your not smart...at our school if you say FIRST, they say "huh"...however if you say "the robot team" they say "oh, ok i know what your talking about"...i think that for many people its the same sort of feeling in their school....

i was one of the people in charge of recruiting this year, and id like to think i did a good job...i didnt leave anything up to chance...i got organized...i sent people around the school during our homeroom of sorts to talk to people and hand out fliers...on top of that i made a specific list of things non robot related that they could do...people needed to know the other stuff...

overall we have about 1/4-1/3 people rookie this year on our team...most of them were on graphics and enginnering...but we had half (1) of our marketing new as well....you just need to get the word out...give your recruiters exactally what they need to say...thats what i think helped us get new people