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Originally Posted by sanddrag
For FIRST to grow 25 times as big in only 5 years would be absolutely nuts.
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Is it really that nuts? In 1995, there were (I believe) 38 teams. In 2004, there were roughly 1000 teams, right? That's 26x growth in 9 years...
Of course, that assumes FIRST can expand at a linear rate... probably not the case. I know around here a lot of schools are hooked up with other (non-FIRST) robotics programs which makes them nearly impossible to recruit. That problem will become more and more apparent as those types of schools represent an increasing percentage of the remaining non-FIRSTized schools.