Amy et al,
Almost every FRC regional committee has a regional web site. You can go to each regional's web site from the list of regionals on
www.usfirst.org. On those web sites, there are points-of-contact any team can get in touch with the committee.
Once a team is signed up for a regional (via
www.usfirst.org), the regional committee very often initiates contact with that team....If you signed up for a regional and that committee hasn't gotten in touch with your team directly, you should feel free to contact the commitee (or elevate to FIRST H/Q if necessary)
At the event, the regional committee members should be identifiable via special shirts.
Yes, having a suggestion box at the event is nice. But, each regional committee is also chartered with conducting a 'forum' after the regional do do lessons learned and 'customer satisfaction' from the annual event. Some regional committees also conduct online or paper-based survey/polls of the team's experience at the regional.
As an example of the good use of Chiefdelphi, our regional (Finger Lakes) could not afford a team social last year, so I used CD forum as a way to ask everyone in the world about "what type of things would you like to do at a social?" in order to cretae some direction for the 2007 FLR.....
Lastly, there are a LOT of things about running a regional event that are NOT controlled by the regional committee, that are mandated for consistency by FIRST H/Q. Therefore, making suggestions to a regional committee should be backed-up by making the same suggestion to FIRST H/Q.
Anyways, your regional committee should be only a mouse click away!