[buildmaster5000]

Realizing that FRC started in New England, it isn't hard to believe that MAR has a lot of "old" teams. Even older than FiM. While it is good to see that CT is sustaining teams, the real question should be: Where is there a total lack of FIRST impact. What part of the country is the concentration of FRC teams per high school student the lowest. It would not surprise me if someone ran the numbers on this and came up with an area like Boston, or DC, or NYC.

We want to expand, but what is the point of expansion if the area is already saturated with teams (FiM, MAR, other "popular regions") If we as FIRSTers get teams in areas with no FIRST exposure, how much more effective does that one team become in acocmplishing the goal of FIRST as a whole?

As an aside, just because a high school in a certain district has a FRC team, doesn't mean the whole district knows about it. I didn't know that 5 of the 30 high schools in my county (Fairfax, Va) had FRC teams until I joined a team, which happened to be unaffiliated with any high school at all.