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Re: [FRC Blog] 2015 Events are Being Posted!
One thing to add here: it has always been the intention that the District Championship in New England would rotate.
When we started discussions, many joked that it was bringing the "five families" together. Each of the original regionals had very distinctive pros and cons. Add on top of that, many of the states (MA excluded) are experiencing "brain drains" as the youth leave for more lucrative regions. To help fulfill the overarching mission to promote STEM with FIRST through all of New England, we want the teams to see all that New England has to offer and encourage them to stick around.
Any New Englander knows all the states are slightly different, and there's really a place for everyone. By rotating there will be years where teams have an easier trip, and other times they may need to travel. The goal is by the end of a 4 year term, a student will have visited many places in New England (including numerous colleges) which might be a good fit. We hope to make the logistics as easy as possible for the DCMP by announcing the venue early and fitting the schedule to include buffers.
What that rotation will look like in the future remains to be seen. Will we do two-year contracts? Will we settle into a pattern to give committees more time to prepare? I can say that we will do what the teams do best: run with an idea, and iterate along the way to best fulfill the challenge.
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