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Tton,
some steps your team can take to get some enginners:
1. ask/recruit parents at your HS who are engineers.
2. ask other first teams in your area to mentor your team and supply you with an engineer or two (some teams have plenty of engineers and can spare a few. Our team only has one engineer from our sponsor (Gleason). I work at Xerox, and the other engineer currently on our team is a professor at RIT. (BTW Xerox offically sponsors two other teams, and RIT officially sponsors a different team, not ours)
3. Approach local colleges and universities and tell the engineering department you need a professor or college student to mentor your team.
4. see if there are companies in your area that sponsor teams in other cities - if so, contact those teams and see if the local division of that company can supply a few engineers for your team - they dont have to be official sponsors, just loan you a few people.
Thats one thing thats great about FIRST. The teams are usually closely associated with one highschool, but you can have adult mentors on the same team from many different corporations, even companies that are competitors.
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