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Re: California District Proposal

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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto View Post
Huge thank you to each of you for the valuable feedback!

It seems like some sort of "Chair of the Volunteer Committee" or "VC Coordinator" role is important to manage the existing volunteer base and help out new VC's as they develop. Does the individual in this "VC management" role also VC an event, or do they remain as purely top-level organizational support?

Also seems like mixed results on whether or not VC's cover multiple events, although it seems that a unique VC for each event would minimize the load.

Thanks again for all the help!

-Mike
The person I believe helps coordinate the VCs here also covers 2 or 3 events in the VC role.
Here, the VC role seems to have a couple flavors.
VC Event specific: We have a couple events that are clearly sponsored by a particular company and they bring in a decent chunk of volunteers, especially in judging role. Their corporate connection is very valuable to those events, and they often just do the one event.
We also have a few extremely remote events where a local VC may only cover that event.

VC Generalists: These are long time FIRST people that tend to know a lot of FIRST volunteers and could literally staff a FIRST event with only a week or two of notice. They have the amazing personal skill of asking people to jump through crazy hoops when needed, and the person will thank them for the opportunity when done.

Again, I need to emphasize the number of events and proximity of events here in SE Michigan. I attended an event every weekend (not recommended) that was within 1 hour of my home, and several weekends, I could have attended a different event within an hour of my home . With the convenience of proximity it is often less of a hassle to cover more than 1 event.

This is pretty special now, but I imagine other areas will be similar in the future.
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