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Re: Where will FIRST be in 10 years
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Originally Posted by Matt Adams
The 'easiest' way to do reduce costs is to hack away at the most expensive part of a FIRST team - travel. The 'easiest' way to to this is to increase the number and locations of regional competitions. If you can drive to a regional each day and not spend money on hotels or flights, the budgets can drop quite significantly.

I quote 'easiest' because for anyone who has seen the immense amount of planning and coordinating required to setup a FRC regional understands it is orders of magnitude more difficult to do than running a team. In my opinion, regional committee planning members are among the most under-appreciated folks in FIRST but far and away among the most important to FIRST's long term success.
Many who post here have served the mission of FIRST in multiple roles. This year I have been a member of my regional committee, an organizer and presenter at our regional off-season training event, a mentor for my team, and a volunteer at our VEX demonstration event. Later this week I'll be a volunteer at our regional FRC event. Since the 2005 Championship, I have probably spent over 300 hours on FIRST. Through all this involvement I have met and worked with many people who dedicate more time and energy to FIRST than I do, and that's just here in St. Louis. Growing FIRST to include every HS in the country will require, among many other challenges, recruiting thousands of dedicated people to plan the local events.
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