[AllenGregoryIV]

So Officially I know FRIST inTexas is getting more organized. They hired staff which didn't exist before and have have more regular meetings about the transition. The email that said we aren't going to districts mentioned the possibility of new regionals this year to help add more room to register new teams. So if that gets confirmed we'll have more events this year which gives us the ability to train volunteers.

As a community we are trying to get more organized as well. We are transporting the field and elements to off-season events ourselves this year, where in the past we used AndyMark. At all our off-season events we are trying to train a large number of new volunteers, especially in postions of greatest need such as FTA since they will need to get nominated and trained at HQ before doing official events. We started a slack team for TX mentors/volunteers to allow us to talk quickly about details, etc. We are looking into new off-season events possibly even this season to train more volunteers and test potential district locations. I actually just started using something like your volunteer database to unofficially track key volunteer interest. In general we are just to talking to teams and key people and making sure we are prepared as possible for 2018.