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Re: Current Districts Map. Who is next?

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Originally Posted by Tanis View Post
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.
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.
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What are nationals? Sounds like a fun American party, can we Canadians come?
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