[Munchskull]

MN should start by giving their volunteers the respect they deserve. Odds are that if you have a volunteer that is college aged, they themselves are FRC/FTC alumni. If they are coming back it means they love FIRST. Other regions and districts thrive from their alumni no reason MN can't.

When it comes to the argument that they will not have enough volunteers, I find that plain wrong. Granted I do not live in MN nor have ever been to the events, but from my experience, if you have the event, volunteera will come. Here in PNW I know that we have had students from teams competing at the event take volunteer positions such as field reset and robot queing. Local teams will help with setup and takedown.

Let the college age students handle key roles at district events. They are adults, MN should treat them like it. The only reason I can imagine that MN would not have enough volunteers for districta is because letters like this are driving them away.