Re: District event in the U.P. (michigan) please respond
 

There are 4 teams currently in the UP, 3 in the Houghton area, the western UP, and one in Sault St. Marie which is about as far east in the UP as you can get. The only way a district or regional competition will ever work in the UP is if the Up is split and the western UP doesn't have to be apart of lower Michigan's district. There is no way you are going to get 36-37 other teams from lower Michigan to travel around 10 hours, one way, to go to a comp. It would be much easier to have teams from WI and MN up here seeing as their average drive time would be closer to 6 or 7 hours.

An off season event is much more likely to get teams up here seeing as you can hold it in the summer and students don't have to take time off school.

Re: District event in the U.P. (michigan) please respond
 

I know that you would be able to find volunteers for the event, especially at Tech, where it is swarming with former Robotics students, and i bet you could get them to open up the Yooper dome for the competition, but the best way to get teams to travel up there would be if you could get the school to open the dorms like they do for Kettering, I know it would really make it more justifiable for teams to select a competition further away if they didn't have to pay for lodging, and instead paid a little more for the ride up.

Best way to pitch it to the schools, I would have to say the exposure to all of the super nerds that would be staying at their college are looking into programs through the college at the same time.

Re: District event in the U.P. (michigan) please respond
 

MTU has the Summer Youth Programs running all summer, so DHH would be out for dorms. Unless they were to open Wadsworth for teams :/ The SYPs also use a lot of areas on campus, so I can't see MTU holding a residence-available-on-campus off-season too soon.

Kettering opens dorms? Huh?