Presentation to the school?

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

I suggest Football Games, make a mascot robot... But that really won't work, people either care about the game or the cheerleaders, no one cares about half time or anything

I have a feeling that they would care much more if the robot involved T-Shirts being launched at them

One of the most important things for people to know about the school robotics team IMO is "Anybody can join, no experience required". I know many people who don't really want to join the team because they think they couldn't be useful to the team

[kgzak]

Originally Posted by Radical Pi

One of the most important things for people to know about the school robotics team IMO is "Anybody can join, no experience required". I know many people who don't really want to join the team because they think they couldn't be useful to the team

That is a good point. I know a lot of people who say "robotics would be awesome and I will come to the competitions but what will I be able to do for the team?" You can mention Build team, Programing team, but also mention Marketing team and other teams you may have. If people like doing art, they can join. Posters? Websites? Advertisement? There are so many things that you need people to be able to do on a team so try to show as many as possible.

[davidthefat]

I know even more people that don't want to join because they would get teh "nerd/geek" labelled on them... I was hesitant too, I was like DGAF, Im in AP Computer Science, you can't get any geekier than that... and I fell in love

[rahilm]

We try to do presentations at the school as often as possible, as it is a big plus in getting recruits. These are the ones we think are really useful:

- Freshman Night: This is where our school welcomes incoming freshmen to tour the campus and get a feel of what the school has to offer. We take the robot out and drive it around. We think this is great, because it gets students interested before they are exposed to high school "labels" and "cliques"

- Club Rush Day: Not sure if other schools do this, but our school has an extended lunch this day for people to sign up for clubs. They don't let us drive the bot around, but we usually have it opened up, and people are usually intrigued by our messy wiring

- T-Shirt Shooter at Football Games: This is probably what finally stripped us of the label as the "geek/nerd club". We finally got people to realize what we do was pretty awesome and generated a good amount of interest. People came up to us after every game saying, "That was really cool, how'd you make that?!"