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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Another consideration would be the availability (not density  ) of mentors and engineers. |
I agree. Hence Salt Lake City, Knoxville, Albuquerque, and Boise are excellent candidates despite small numbers of existing FRC teams.
Dave is right in pointing out that density of team population is important; however, I think there is a little bit of chicken-or-egg logic there. As an example, the St. Louis regional was started in 2002 when there were no FRC teams in St. Louis (my team formed that same year) and the team density factor had to be stretched a little, relying on many teams to travel more than 200 miles to come here.
Anyway, it is important to dream about the possibilities.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)