Too large of a team?

[santosh]

Our team next year will have 140+ members. This year we had 84 and honestly didn't know what to do with all these people. Freshmen usually join robotics to build a robot because they don't know all the aspects of robotics and what FIRST and the Chairman's Award is about. So when we put them on teams such as Lego or Scouting, they drop out of the club.

Now our numbers are going up. This time we will try and make a larger point of what FIRST and Robotics is about in the hopes that we can keep all of our members. We are trying to enter more engineering contests and other things like that. But is there anyone out there who has experience with large number teams that could help us in better organizing ourselves.

Right now we have a scouting team, outreach comittee, fundraising comittee, technical team, FLL Mentor team, Jr. FLL Mentor team, VEX robotics team, FIRST Build Team, Promotional Team, and a BEST robotics team. With all these teams, it is still hard to keep people interested and active.

Jr. FLL, VEX, and the Promotional team are all new this year, But we have no idea about how to make sure that we keep all these people. It may even be 150+ kids that join the club next year.

Please help us in finding out how to keep our club solid with this many people.
If there is another thread jsut liek this, sorry. I searched and found threads about organization, but none that dealt with organization of teams with large numbers. Thanks