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.