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Re: Recruiting
We are also losing half of our team because of the graduation issue this year (fortunately it sounds like one or two may be coming back as mentors!)
For things like the lunch, can that be done at the beginning of next school year? Our mentor crew is out of town already for this summer. While the FLL and elementary/middle schools are good, does anyone have any more immediate recruitment methods? |
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That what happened to us last year. When we started we were only 8 people, but we recruited more and when the season started we were 30+ Here are some ways: -have a car wash/donation event. While you guys are washing cars, ask one of your people to introduce them to your robot and let them drive it. We got a lot of home schoolers and freshmen because of this. -Home GAMES!!.. take your robot to the home games and do like a shenanigan with it. Like the time we chased our principal around the track with or 2005 robot, during the half time. We also built a Basketball Robot, just for the sake of entertainment and using it to recruit more people. -Morning announcements in school. DO IT!.... its slow but it will help -After School event or during class event. this year before we shipped out the robot, we took it in the senior hallway and shot balls out of it. Whoever catches a ball gets a candy.... Thats just some of the stuff we did. We also go to the Museums and Fairs with our robot and recruit mentors and students from other schools etc. let me know if you have any questions.. |
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We are currently losing 8 seniors and from interest forms from the upcoming Freshmen Magnet class of 2009, we will be gaining 55 people. This will bring the number up to 149 people.
We do A LOT of outreach events and many kids from these outreach events transfer into our school district to take part in our club. We have this thing called wildcat daze at our school where all the clubs and organizations have a booth. At this booth we always have a couple of FRC bots, a couple of FLL bots, and a VEX bot or two. This always attracts people. We also work with many local FLL teams. By getting to know these kids and mentors of a lot of teams on a personal level, we can recruit a lot of them into the next level. We also mentor a few teams and the kids on these teams that are moving up to high school are ither coming to our school to join up and a few are going to their schools to try and get teams started there. |
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We chronically have these sort of problems, our team varies from small to smaller, or larger, with a lot of people standing around talking. I'm personally out to build a T-Shirt cannon robot with our six years of pneumatics hardware and some random drive parts. (Triple rapid-fire launchers baby, two compressors a piece)
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what type of shirts are you guys talking about.. school shirts, team shirts,
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For the past few years my team has hosted an off-season regional competition at our school.
This is a GREAT way to get people to join, albeit very difficult to organize and pull off. Leading up to the event we do a lot of promotion and advertising at school, handing out fliers and driving the robot in the quad... We also put the dates and times of when it is to take place in both local and school newspapers. When the competition happens we usually have fabulous turnout. People who have nothing to do with robots/high-school show up just to watch. Not only do we rope new members but we also sell stuff (which brings in a lot of money for the club). |
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As has been mentioned, morning announcements are EXTREMELY effective. It is pretty much the only form of communication we had this year with team members besides word of mouth if we happened to see them at school. From our experience, FLL has actually not been a very effective recruiting tool. Not a reason to give it up, but don't count on it for drawing students in. The biggest thing to me is still word of mouth. Half our members are in marching band, and this is because kids in marching band always convince other ones to "come along and see the club". |
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We do demos at local middle schools, and we see many of these students later go onto FIRST robotics, especially those who were in FLL. 604's school, Leland High, sits next to Bret Harte Middle School. Most students that attend this middle shool end up going to our high school. Also, our school has a Club Day in September, where we recruit our new members.
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those are some great ideas, but how do you guys convince people who say they don't think they have enough time to commit to robotics to join or at least give it a try?
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Zoheb N -
First of all you are doing a great job with this thread and trying to help your team. I think it is cool. Second - I spoke with an '05 alum from 118 this Saturday at Mindstorms Mania here at UT. I asked her to explain your program to me. It is my understanding that 118 is comprised of team members from 3 schools and that you build at NASA. If I have any of this wrong, please correct. Having a team made up of different schools poses lots of challenges and not having your build site on campus where students can drop by also poses challenges. I'm bringing this up so that other teams can see this and maybe offer suggestions as to how to deal with these constraints. One thing we've done the past 2 years is have a car bash. We've found a local business that will donate the car and we charge so much to bash. This gets the word out that the team is fun as well as hard working. A key to this is promotion, publicity. |
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you got the information right... soo you guys get a car and charge kids to bash the car??? is that right
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Right. You have to get permission from your principal or administrator in advance. It's an old junker from a car lot (business) that they sell used parts from, etc. The owner has the car brought to our school parking lot and he comes back and hauls it off. Last year we asked that the glass be left in it, this year they removed all the glass but we forgot to ask. They remove the battery, the oil, etc. The team sets up the place out-lining the perimeter with caution tape. Everyone has to wear safety goggles when in the area and when bashing. We provide the big swingers for bashing. A couple of the handles have been split. We figured out to charge by minutes. So much for a minute and so much for 5. I can maybe swing 3 really good swings so you wouldn't make much off of me but if I even just stand there looking cool in my safety glasses for 5 minutes you've still made some bucks.
However, this particular event is seen more as building community in the school and getting the robotics word out there rather than for profit. Teams usually disappear into their build space - daylight isn't that bad, fresh air is good, bashing cars - fun. The team cleans up all the mess, leaving the parking lot spit spot. One thing we thought of this year is to write teachers' names on the car and see if that would be a good draw. We'll see next year. Usually around Homecoming but it might be a good release for finals week too if anyone could stop long enough to wield some iron. |
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