[pfreivald]

Hmmm, for starters....

• Reduce the costs involved in creating a competitive robot (reduce entrance fees as much as possible; make real field elements cheaper/easier to produce AND STORE; I hate to say this but probably remove stop build day)
• Create guidelines to deal with mentor and student burnout (not sure how that would work--sanddrag's idea about capping the number of hours per year and/or week, perhaps)
• Maximize games per entrance fee dollar, and keep teams with drastically different games per entrance fee dollar from competing against each other (because let's face it, that's fundamentally unfair--which is why either everyone should be on the district model, or no one should be)
• Shift focus to team sustainability and improvement rather than program growth
• Rubrics for all awards should be created, made public six months in advance, and strictly adhered to when judging (with the exception of the Judge's Award). Teams should receive scored rubrics for each award.
• Make the Chairman's Award presentation and essays blindly judged--no team numbers, no team T-shirts, no identifiers on anything until after the winner has been chosen