Thread: Michigan, be honest, how is the district model?
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Re: Michigan, be honest, how is the district model?
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Originally Posted by prettycolors91 View Post
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Overall, it would be much easier for us if we went to Wisconsin, but we all love the way that FiM is set up, and it gets much more "play" time for our students. I just wish we could have a district a little closer to home to help save on travel costs.
So why don't you??? This is a serious question, not a rhetorical one.

The external borders of Michigan aren't magical lines-of-death.

I have a hunch that the presence or absence of a robotics team is usually correlated with the presence or absence of mentors, sponsors and/or faculty who get the urge to form one, and not with a state boundary.

Even when a team's existence is correlated with a state program of some sort, I have a further hunch that the state program(s) usually wouldn't object to the team competing in sane nearby locations.

Surely we/FRC have the ability to form (and evolve) districts that are based on where teams actually exist rather than on 200-300 year old state boundaries that exist for a zillion reasons other than efficient/effective STEM inspiration.

State boundaries often become a crutch rather than an aid in this sort of situation. I hope that doesn't become the case throughout FRC.

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