How to keep new students entertained?

[EricH]

With regards to fundraising, pair up experienced students with new students when you do it. The experienced student can offer what the team has done; the new student can observe and offer what they think the team is about.

The same goes for all the other things. Pair up veterans with rookies in whatever ratio is appropriate. Rookies learn. Veterans learn better (nothing like teaching something to learn it!).

Another great idea: Take any random old FRC game and sit all the students down in groups. Their objective: develop a strategy and design a robot to win the game. No, they don't have to build it, but it would have to be buildable. (Would also work with FTC and VRC games. Caution: before 1999, FRC games tended to be 1v1v1.) When January rolls around, the entire team benefits as they do the same thing. You could also develop your own game, but that might be a bit crazy.