[simpsonboy77]

This will be my 4th year as a CSA and FTAA, and I'd like to be an FTA as well. Realize that a ton of work goes into being an FTA. You are there a day early to setup the field and you are the last person to leave. FTA isnt a role you can just sign up for, most of the time you are asked by either FIRST or another FTA if you would like to be one.

What is it that drives you to be an FTA? As echoed throughout this thread, there are plenty of other key volunteers that are critical to an event. If an event does not have a CSA, the FTA will have even more trouble keeping to the schedule, and there will be plenty of bypasses. One event last year the FTA thanked me for getting the teams running on the field. The entire event had only 1 bypass.

If you want to be on the technical side, CSA and FTAA are the ways to go. If you want to learn more about the field, FTAA and scorekeeper are the roles to apply for. Even though CSA is robotcentric, you are still exposed to the field, especially when things go south.