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Originally Posted by WEHickok

It is great to figure number of teams per square miles or number of people, but that really doesn't matter. The real measure is how many high schools, or better yet, high school students have access to a FIRST team.

In January, Dean Kamen visited Detroit and when he met the Governor he made it clear what is important to him. He said that at that time Michigan had the highest number of teams per schools...One out of every four high schools in Michigan had a FIRST team. I don't know where he found those numbers, but this would be a great statistic to know, and probably the more important one.

I think Rhode Island is going to take over the lead; they are going to have FIRST in every high school for the 2007/08 Season.

http://www.stac.ri.gov/index.php?section=news&item=21


*Technically, when one says "FIRST teams", it can mean FRC, FVC, FLL, or JFLL. Since Rhode Island is going to have a FVC Team in every high school from the 2007/08 season and onwards, they will be the first state to have FIRST in every high school.