Recruiting

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Originally Posted by Zoheb N

has anyone tried a pep rally? if so how did it go? what did you guys do at the pep rally?

Soley for the robotics team? No. But we have demonstrated our robot during part of a pep rally before. People have liked it both times we did it, we usually get comments of "how the heck did you guys do that", "that was cool", or things like that. I'm not entirely sure how many people it convinced to join the club, as they've both been done towards the end of the school year.

In 2005 we used our robot to cap a few tetras out on a goal, mainly looking cool because we showed off that we could hoist a tetra 13 feet into the air and drive around with the same ease as when our robot is at the 5 foot normal limit. I wasn't there, but they also used either the 2002 or 2001 robot during its respective year to show off how much their robot could pull, and pulled a cart (don't know if it had wheels on the bottom or not, I'm pretty sure it did) with the entire offensive line of the football team on it. They would have pulled more but didn't have a big enough cart.

Currently a few of us are trying to think of how to create balls the same size as poof balls filled with something (t-shirts or other goodies) to shoot out of this year's robot for pep rallys or football games. It would require no modification of this year's robot, which would make it very simple to do. I just don't know what we'd want to use so that it wouldn't hurt people if it hit them.