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Originally Posted by Matt Leese
I would bet that any regional that isn't in the planning stages (i.e. committee formed, etc) yet won't be around for 2005. That was at least the impression that we were given last year in Rochester (we had planned on 2005, FIRST at first thought we were looking at 2004).
Matt
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Yeah Matt.
That is definitely the impression I am getting right now. Kansas City has the backing but we are just going to be getting into any planning stages in May. It could happen but there is still a lot of work to be done. We'll see.
I don't think I'll have luck starting a team in Manhattan this year without a KC regional or NASA grant. Does anyone know of any good grant programs that would be applicable to starting a FIRST team? From where I am I'm looking at a 7-8 hour trip out-of-state to the nearest regional and I'll be hard-pressed to convince a school or teacher to add a 10-20K program in the middle of State budget problems. Two hours on a yellow bus would be much more reasonable.