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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
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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It's going to take a culture change.
When schools treat robotics as they do football, basketball, baseball, band - all these issues will resolve.
1. Regional distributions and suppliers for KoP will likely appear
2. How do we find enough coaches for sports? Once a sport is pervasive in society, coaches spontaneously appear.
3. Same as #2
4. If the concept of world champions persists, they'll come from district/regional/state tournaments.