[ChrisH]

I think it will take a while to reach the kind of saturation you're talking about Patrick. I work at a large defense contractor. I've worked there 20+ years and due to layoffs etc. most of my co-workers are older than I am.

Though we are now starting to hire people straight out of school, FIRST hasn't been around here on the West Coast long enough to have many graduates running around.

On the other hand, I know one manager who specifically looks for FIRST experience when hiring. He just doesn't find that many applicants. Four or five years ago when FIRST was starting out here, we must have had a whole 30 or 40 graduates to spread around one of the most populated areas of the country. It's no surprise they're hard to find.

I have only run into one other engineer who was on a FIRST team that I didn't meet first at an event. He was a Lockheed guy in the Ft Worth area that was on JSF for a while. He's changed programs so I don't hear from him anymore.