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Originally Posted by sgeckler
Fredi,
Can you point us to any material or narratives about HOW this was accomplished? It think making an example road map available would give other areas some ideas about how to undertake the process. Who were the principles actors, who were the champions, what were the challenges and how were they resolved?
Congratulations!
Sam Geckler
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We have an organization in AZ that is called Science Foundation Arizona,
http://www.sfaz.org/, that we have been in contact with for many years. We send them updates on what we are doing and other teams are doing in the state. After many years of watching what robotics can do and seeing teams struggle for recognition and funding they thought they would lean on the AIA to consider it. The AIA went on a trip to Minnesota to check out what they had there and were blown away! They decided that they wanted that for Arizona and here we are. They also consulted with FIRST before implementing the plan. So basically keep blowing your own horn and the horn for others to who ever may have any political sway to move the powers that be. Invite them to your school and show them what you can do. Let them see the kids excited. Send the all the press coverage to them. Invite them to tournaments. anything you can think of to engage them. The more teams that band together to do this with the help of your regional FRC directors the better. Ours RD was very active in providing info and pushing forward the agenda with Science Foundation AZ and the AIA. Does that help? Let me know if you need more detail