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Originally Posted by Tanis
I'm not buying it.
While I fully agree that St. Cloud is a great opportunity for FIRST in MN, I don't believe that starting an event there (or switching to districts) will make more volunteers start showing up.
I understand it has worked in other regions of the US, but we haven't seen that success in MN. Despite the Duluth regionals having been around for a few years, we are still in an incredibly difficult uphill battle to get more volunteers from Duluth to volunteer for Duluth events.
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Because everyone is too busy competing at Duluth because there are only 2 weeks of regionals...
Minnesota is the only region that does this and appears to be the only region in which the "start it and they will come (re: volunteers)" model isn't working.