Recruiting

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We presented our 2005 robot at a club day thing (got lots of people to watch, especially when we tried to cap a gazebo with a chair), but other than that everything has been through word of mouth (this includes everyone trying to drag their friends in, making announcements of club meetings, putting notices on TV if you have them at your school, and putting up fliers for the first few meetings).

We had the best success we've ever had at actually getting people to come initially; between 40-50 people came to our first meeting. Unfortunately, we haven't yet mastered the art of keeping students who come to meetings, so that quickly dropped to probably 15 or 20 kids. It was back up to about 30 by the time build came around though, mainly because we accept any members at any time as long as you are willing to do something (there are some kids who didn't join until the first day of build, yet contributed more than kids who had been there since the first meeting).

Doing some other things to get you recognized at the school work well too; alot of the previous members wore their robotics shirts during school (I currently own 3 shirts from each of the past 3 years, totaling 9 shirts), and we held a LAN party at the school as a fundraiser.