[gail]

Here's how it should work. Any of our veteran teams that know a high school who has considered participating in FIRST at some time should contact that school and put together a handful of interested kids/teachers/parents to participate in the event. The veteran team will lend them their '07 robot to use, along with a few of thier own team's students and mentors. My guess is once they do this, the school will want to participate next year. This could work with just a enough people to form a field team from the new school.

The trickier part is that school is out for the summer. Principals, however, are still around. I can also find out who the science/math teachers are from the State of Michigan's list. Students can be contacted via facebook if someone knows a student at that school.

I am willing to help if anyone has a new school they would like to contact. There are lots of ways to skin a cat. Just call me at 248 425-4148.