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Re: New Team to be (Possibly) Started at Cal Poly Pomona
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Originally Posted by ChrisH
Cal Poly Pomona is in LA County and part of a major urban area. There are plenty of untapped potential sponsors in the area. If they were talking about Cal Poly SLO, it would be a different story.
For the past three years, the LA Regional committee has focused on keeping the LA Regional alive. Thankfully, due to the hard work of the development committee, we appear to have reached a point where the Regional is sustainable for the long term. So now we can start thinking about actively recruiting schools to join the FIRST family. Next year we are planning to do some substantial recruiting. The area around Pomona could certainly use a new team or two. Bill's points are good ones, but in this case Angela would probably have the blessings of the Regional Committee.
Of course I think she would be welcome supporting the BeachBots too (I know she'd get my vote and probably Joe Ross' as well among others) but the commute between school and our shop would be a killer.
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As much as I would like to support the Beach Bots, the travel just wouldn't be worth the trouble. I'm carless and the LA bus system is great but..yah.
Chris: You mentioned that the regional committee wants to work on starting some new teams. Do you have any sort of an info packet put together to give to people such as myself who wish to start teams? I know Kate has something for the Finger Lakes Regional. If so, I'd love a copy.
Thanks!
- Angeal
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