Getting kid excited about CAD

[Coach Seb]

Second FTC season and FRC training about to start and we really would like to get better with CAD. We had a few seniors on it last year during our rookie year, but that was when the coaches request them and was very ad-hoc versus being an actual tool that we use....

We bough 2 dedicated computers and got a sponsorship from SolidWorks. One of our coach on our team is very good using it and we just got a license for SolidProfessor to use. We used GrabCAD last year a little bit... so it feels like we have the basic foundation elements to make this very successful.

Where we are a little puzzled is how to get kids excited about it. So here is a few questions that we could use some help with. Any feedback and or ideas from your team would be appreciated

1- Does your team have a dedicated CAD team?

2- What is your ratio of CAD students/total team members for your team?

3- Are the students doing CAD also part of the built team?

4- What is your "rules" around draw before your build, or build than draw....?

5- Any "perks" for being on that team?

6- What is your team strategy to promote CAD within your team?

Any other feedback / ideas would be welcome.

Thanks in advance,