Your team's first events

[phrontist]

Our team, going into it's second year, does not hand-hold. We have no (engineering) mentors, and no formal education in anything we do beyond highshool physics classes (which some of us haven't taken yet.) So the bulk of our knowledge is derived from experimentation and RTFM. We don't really introduce new students to anything, they are expected to ask questions and learn along the way.

I'm glad we don't have engineering mentors, as it would "cramp our style"
After all, professional engineers know The Right Way To Do It (TM) and if we knew that we'd be deprived of the educational experience of screwing up.

We do agressively try to recruit people, but only if they are serious. We don't want a team that has more people cheering then building, because that defeats the purpose of FIRST, IMHO.