Recruiting?

[Rick Wagner]

I can't say that team 294 has been a role model in recruiting, because we worry and struggle every year to get more members, especially girls, on the team. But we are growing, albeit slowly, and we are taking thirteen students, six mentors, and four parents to the World Championship this year (we won the San Diego Regional). Two years ago we started an in-house FLL team that now has 14 elementary and middle school students. We hope that in a few years, those FLL graduates will go on to become dedicated FRC high school team members.

We also do many of the outreach activities mentioned above, such as school presentations, demonstrations, community events, back to school nights, etc. I think we need to keep on doing what we're doing and find ways to do it more and better.

[Wildcat]

what my team does is we will occasionally do demo's @ the districts middle and sometimes elementary schools as well as demos in public events such as local parades and festivals. another thing we do is run an ad on my schools anouncements and display flyers around our campus. the thing i think really helps is that we take all of the possible recruits that the commercial brings to an off-season competetion with the team-Kettering Kickoff. here's one of our commercials we put on the anouncements for you to get an idea of what one may look like. This was made by another member of my team.
for the 2009-2010 school year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SsBInRVfMs
2008-2009 school year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65qsE_Y8v9c