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Re: Our Team is in Quite the Pickle

Having run through a few oh-crap-oh-crap-oh-crap moments:

1) Your Regional Director (and/or FIRST Senior Mentor, if you have one) is your friend here. I don't know if an FSM can, but I know from experience that RDs can talk to FIRST to make changes to main and alternate contacts in situations like this.
2) Parents, parents, parents. You're going to need hands, you're going to need mouths, you're going to need dollars. A cadre of involved parents can do almost anything within a school organization. (Note I said "involved" not "angry"; do it right, and you'll never have to reach "angry"!)
3) Find that new teacher in the school, show them the robot, give them the elevator pitch. They're probably not as overloaded.

And good luck!
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2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor

93 events (more than will fit in a ChiefDelphi signature), 13 seasons, over 60,000 miles, and still on a mission from Bob.

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