Thread: Dealing With FIRST Withdrawal Symptoms?
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Re: Dealing With FIRST Withdrawal Symptoms?
Leave FIRST? That's an option? =)

I agree with lots of the ideas mentioned here. There are so many opportunities to help out with our addiction to being connected. We have the internet and phones both can help out a far away team in need. Though video calls you can see what they are having issues with and help identify the issue and possibly walk them through it. If your not technical you can have teams send you their drafts of documents and you can proofread them and help with edits.

Another great option would be find a group of interested friends and road trip to an event to volunteer.

Or even get an FRC/FTC/FLL/JFLL started near you so you can help mentor them. Although it can be a challenge to help a rookie team while in college. You would really need to be able to balance your time wisely and not fall behind on school work for this to be a good option for you.

In my brief period where I was 2.5 hours away from my team I helped out over the phone a lot. I also went home almost every weekend during build and helped out at other FLL events and the FRC Regional(I run our FLL demo section in it every year).
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