[Carol]

From what I have seen in MAR, the hardest volunteer position to fill at new district events is judges. Judges are (ideally) not associated with a team but typically come from academia and industry in the local community. And persuading someone to possibly take a day off work to judge at a new event, for a program they may never have heard of before, is difficult. Once an event is established in the community, and hopefully got publicity, you start to build a judge base.