[Lisa Perez]

This just came to mind. What if teams were to write letters to certain districts describing all the goodness of FIRST, maybe even including video presentations from the season?

Although a lot of teams were founded by people who had been on a robotics team before, many other teams were started by schools that had even the slightest interest in the idea of a program inspiring young and old alike and recognizing science and technology. If we showed this to them, the districts might just take the initiative on their own to start teams.

I think it's worth a try