[StAxis]

This is exactly how I have been feeling over the last couple of years. FIRST laid out a nice model for the future in 2011 with the district map, a model that a lot of people got behind. We thought that progress was being made, just slowly, over the last few years up until the two "championships" announcement.

FIRST is having issues with places at war over districts vs. regionals, they're staring down a huge failure rate for rookie teams, and they are not communicating their vision to anyone.

FIRST needs to tell us where they are going, and if they don't know where they're going then they need to bring in some people to help figure that out. If they're looking for help in forming a vision I happily volunteer.

This is a program I love and the greatest community I have ever been a part of. It is a community that can do great things and deserves the vision to help them do it.

FIRST has always been about bringing the floor up, not bringing the ceiling down, if the program is to thrive it needs to find a way, either as a community or as an institution, to keep teams alive and allow them to thrive.

I want to support FIRST, and we have already begun making plans for contacting multiple congressional districts, but giving us a road map will not only make that process easier, it will give teams a vision for the future, goals to work for, and a plan worth working to stick around for.