Woodland Highschool hosts a yearly freshman orientation the week before school starts so incoming students already know where their classes are, and the basics of their teachers. All clubs of the school set up tables in the cafeteria for after the event when lunch is provided for these students. These table set up's help get new students to join clubs, such as robotics.
Like many of our outreach events, we include a lovely table. The difference in this table is we have a direct sign up sheet in which we get the names and emails of students who would like to try out our club!
The quick answer is yes! Our table at freshman orientation does actually work well. Each year we get at least 3-4 people to sign up, which while it does not seem like many people, at the beginning its a lot, as on average our team is 16 people. Through out the year we get another 4+ in which helps a lot. Lucky we lose right around the amount of students to graduation as we gain so our team stays around the same each year.