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Originally Posted by rsisk
Point #2 - list of new teams in the area can easily be asked for from the local Regional Director or Senior Mentor in the area
List of Senior Mentors: http://www.usfirst.org/community/vol...mentor-program
Regional directors list here: http://www.usfirst.org/regional-contacts
If nothing else, the RD/FSM can send your contact info to the new teams.
Teams should be helping other lower resource teams in their area regardless of whether FIRST provides an incentive. If they aren't, they are missing one I consider a fundamental feature of FIRST that differentiates it from other robotic programs. |
My point is not to leave it to individual teams to act--that will NOT lead to widespread change. FIRST must initiate this from the center to cause fundamental and widespread change. We can't rely on what teams "should" do--we have to act on what they "actually" do.
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Originally Posted by rsisk
I don't know of any special push for teams in CA this year (MI is a different case this last year). We had about the same amount of growth we normally do, I think our attrition was lower than usual this year. So there must be a different explanation for the lower OPR in CA.
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As for the push in CA, Jim Beck told us several times about the efforts he made (plus the announcements he made that off season events.)