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Re: Projected FRC Size

Just thinking of that type of growth poses some serious questions for FIRST and the community:
- How do we keep the KoP cost manageable, when we hit the limit on how much a supplier is willing to donate for free?
- How do we find enough mentors for all of those teams?
- How do we find enough volunteers to run all of the new regionals this implies?
- How do we handle attendance numbers at Championships?
(and probably other questions I haven't thought of yet)

Obviously, we all want to see this program grow as much as possible... but rapid growth quickly turns into a logistical nightmare. How do we avoid sacrificing the current quality of the student experience in order to gain quantity?
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