[Rich Wong]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

Got a problem, and I don't know if or how other teams handle it, but here's whats up.

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I have been thinking about getting a parent involved, though I don't know how they would handle it or even have the time. Has any team had other sources for advisers and whatnot? I could use some ideas because I would hate to see this team disappear especially on my senior year...

Any other suggestions on how to pull it off are more than welcome and are appreciated, thank you.

-Joe

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Hi Joe,
I appreciate your efforts in helping this FLL Team. Thank you!

From what I know a 17 year old can be a mentor for the FLL kids.
It is a good idea to ask a parent or any adult to help with FLL registration.
It is important to register and get the challenge kits as early as possible. Even now NYC teams are already finished constructing the NANO Quest challenge sets and getting ready for this Friday's world wide challenge announcement. Most will be attending FLL Kickoffs around the NYC to get as many teams off and running as possible.

Your options are to register and paid with personal funds (from parents and/or students) and later have the school (hopefully) reimburse the registration fee. Since your team are a veteran team, the cost will be low because they'll only need the challenge set (unless they want the new NXT set). They can compete with the previous year's RCX sets with no problem.

Several of the FLL teams in NYC are mentored by High School FRC students and we encourage this. Some of the NYC FRC teams do fund FLL teams they mentor.

In NYC the school system is also slow at submission of funds for activates like FLL. Because of this problem Manchester has allowed NYC to reserve FLL spots which allows NYC to extend the registration by about 2 weeks.

I hope this helps.
Best Wishes.

BTW- this year's FLL challenge is one of the most interest topics every conceived. The challenge set looks real cool!