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If you are in an area with few teams the best thing you can do is sponsor teams - no doubt about that
or you could set up a centralized 'First' facility in the middle of the city, so that many teams could meet at the same location, sharing a single machine shop, play field, computer room, kitchen, annimation room....
you could have the facility open year round, have a lego league - invite visitors - turn FIRST into a year round activity in your area, centered at your facility
this would make it so much easier for schools to have teams, for companys and individuals to be sponsors and mentors
you could also organize the trips to regionals together, share bus rides, hold local rumbles....
and expand out into other science and technology programs - let students use the facility to work on science projects, technology programs
in other words, use your money to create one awesome place for high school students to go after school and on weekends - where they can focus on where they want their lives and careers to go.
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