How does your organization with more then 2 teams get members?

VEX V5 General Discussion
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I am currently on a org but I was wondering how other orgs get members? And is it a application based system or a show up whenever type system?

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Could you explain a little better what you mean? Are you talking about how to get more people into your robotics program or how to register more teams or something?

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How my school does it is we have an actual class that goes along with VEX. We have a Robotics class and and Engineering Design class. Anyone who is in that class can join any of the competition teams. When we get new freshmen, we tell them about it at the beginning of the year and they can choose if they want to join. Members who have done it before normally stay in the program for a few if not all four years. It’s really just a “whoever wants to do it, can” thing.

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Yeah, there really isn’t any special way to do it, it’s just your school’s preference.
My coaches have people go to some informational meetings right after the game reveal, and that is when most people sign up, but people can still sign up until tournaments start.

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my organization is run by my school, so we’ll have five teams next year (~6 kids per team). since we’re a school club (we don’t get much funding from them but are still affiliated), we are required to send out an email at the beginning of the season to the entire school with meeting times and info. anyone who wants to show up can show up and we kinda just go from there.
we also send out an email every April to all the incoming freshmen, inviting them to a freshie intro night. same deal as before, anyone who wants to can show up. we kinda introduce them to robotics, and then in subsequent meetings, we do a “bootcamp” where we train them and have them build a clawbot. that helps introduce the kids to how vex works, weeds out the kids who don’t want to work, and helps us figure out who fits where so we have balanced teams.

as far as i know, my club is required to take anyone who wants to join, which can be annoying at times – there are sometimes kids who are just there to play video games and don’t want to do robotics. however, it does help us get people who have no prior experience and might not be stereotypical robotics people.

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Kinda the same for my school. We only have a robotics class though (at least for V5, IQ is it’s own thing too but there’s also an engineering class, It’s either or for each person I think)