Way to get kids to join a team

[suneel112]

Do a junior high robot demonstration. (if applicable), get out your 2001 robot, put on some hip-hop music (if that is popular in the school, otherwise rock or [eek] boy bands), and start balancing and picking up balls. Also get the big ball (alright, you can use this year's for it also), pick it up, extend the arm, and drop it on the really extremely irrating vexing annoying person in junior high. Grade 6 is too young to submit to that "torture". The next year, we had approximately 20 new high school members.

[Lisa Perez]

We've done roadshows for entire schools at the end of the FIRST season. In addition to showing the robot off, we do a set of science tricks, which usually gets the younger ones enchanted. Then we select both a group of teachers and a group of students to drive and perform a task with the robot (usually the students perform better =)).

[Joe J.]

P-CEP has a Club Night were all the 8th graders from the 5 middle schools come to the Park and can walk around and sign up for whatever clubs and/or teams the want to join next year. This year we were going to drive our 2002 robot Ziff around but due to some problem it wasn't working but just having it sitting there not moving drew one of the largest crowds I saw that night.

Now after we got Ziff fixed we have been once again rideing around in the hallways at lunch no less so that gets attention from both students and teachers. Those rotating lights really get people's attention.

[Mike Heinowski]

I'm still suprised that we get away with riding Ziff 1.0 around.

[Astronouth7303]

What we do:
-Posters
-Idle chatter (talk to someone and getting to FIRST)
-Showing bot
-spam (Just Kidding!)