[Jon Stratis]

You know, I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about the local teams here. I know and am friendly with most of the mentors, I follow teams on Twitter and Facebook, I see posts by them on CD... Yet I wouldn't feel comfortable saying that anything in any chairman's essay from those teams is false. I just don't know everything about those teams, and can't know unless I'm actually part of the team and privy to their internal discussions and calendars.

If you come across something that strikes you as improbable, it's better to find a way to ask about it in an interested manor, than an accusatory one. Something like "wow, how'd you start up 30 FTC teams? That sounds like a huge amount of work!", versus " there's no way you can meaningfully contribute to mentoring 30 FTC with the 10 students your team has!". What you might find out, by approaching the team in a better way, is that they're doing something really useful, creative, and ultimately something that you may be able to adopt in the future!. And you know, if they are BSing about it... Then simply by drawing some attention to it by asking about it may help bring them back in line.