Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

This is exciting. In my mind, the sooner I can play more than twice as many matches for one registration fee with an unbag window at home, the better.

Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

We are very open to gathering best practices and lessons learned from both FiM and MAR, and we have already had a number of converstations with FiM and MAR stakeholders. We are planning to continue these converstations. Additionally, members of our planning committee visited FiM and MAR events.

We are also encouraging folks to visit the Q&A section of our website (nefirst.org) to share your ideas and concerns... The website Q&A and Town Hall meetings are to ways we can listen and learn from the teams.

Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

I have many questions about how district events are run so I looked quickly for info. I thought I would find it in the FRC game manual but I did not. Where can I find info on how FiM and MAR are run?

Thanks

Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

The FiM website, www.firstinmichigan.org, may be able to answer some of your questions. Do you have any specific questions? The pros and cons of district models have been discussed many times on CD.

Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

For things like District by-laws, you can find all of them on the individual district's websites (I'm pretty sure they are virtually the same for MAR and FiM):

http://www.firstinmichigan.org/

http://mar.us.com/

Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

Just what I was looking for.

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Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

Hmmm. I think NYC/LI would make a fine district, you need around 80-100 teams (MAR has 99). By my (unscientific) count, you have that in LI and NYC (84 teams). Joe, want to start something?

Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

I talked with Jess Boucher shortly at BC, about this. How can teams from NY's capital region get involved? All 4 of the NE regionals (Boston, WPI, CT, and BAE) are within a 3 hour or so driving window, while only one NY regional falls in that window.

I know that I can speak for ourselves and Team 20 in saying that we would very much prefer to compete in New England. Neither team has competed more than once outside of New England in recent history (us at FLR in 2009 and 20 at FLR in 2008.) Also our relative isolation from other NY teams means it makes sense for us to be included in NE. (Look at Andrew Schreiber's wondermap here.)

Re: New England District Town Hall Meetings
 

Having worked with two other capital region teams (that I believe are still active) in 1493 and 1665 I am fairly certain that they would also prefer New England to either NYC/LI or FLR.