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Re: Keep FIRST in Michigan (FiM) from killing FIRST Lego League

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Originally Posted by JimInNJ View Post
No, I think that the Michigan grants are unique. Are these grants from the state perpetual, or will they dry up in the future? This seems like a future disaster in the making . . .
They're sure to dry up at some point. And I'm sure a lot of teams will disappear when they do. But the retention rates for FRC teams over 3 or 5 years is something like 50% anyway. So they're hoping they hook people and some of those teams hang around.

It's been effective in our area. We've only seen 1 of the teams we've started through the grant end up folding when it went away (this was a couple years ago when FiM would pay the first year but not the second).
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