[PayneTrain]

Only 20? What a lightweight. But seriously, I guess everything is bigger in Texas, including aspirations for FRC.

I know VirginiaFIRST and other organizations try to recruit universities to help with the program, and in turn advertise how much the University loves FIRST. I assume there will be a kickoff event in Lubbock, Texas at TTU. If you could secure some large, general purpose work area for all of the rookies to meet at the University until school is back in session, you could train in weekends before kickoff, and help with kitbot demonstrations and large fundamentals of strategy and design sessions in this area weekends after kickoff until students come back to move in. I imagine a combination of a lecture hall and common area for discussion/hand work could provide a large enough space to hold 20 teams. After that I guess you could assign alumni mentors interested in building a resume to teams that request one, and maybe try to do telementoring with some of the bigger teams in the state, even if they are far away.

Good luck guys. I can't really wrap my head around 20 rookie teams in one metro area just coming into existence.