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Re: Team 3000!

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post

So here is my challenge to the FIRST community, STOP starting new teams. If you are stable and have the mentors you need think of ways to help out teams that are struggling. I can't promise you that it will win you a Chairman's award, but I can tell you that by helping one team survive instead of starting another to replace them you are changing the world.
Emphasis mine.

I wouldn't necessarily put it like that but yes, I do agree to some extent.

Rather than starting a new team then letting them frolic around their 2nd year, analyze which teams in your area need the most help and when you are starting a team, analyze whether or not their area (local sponsors, shops) would allow them to be a sustainable program (IM me for an example of such a team and how we select which areas to start or support teams in). Who cares about getting chairman's???. That should not be your team's priority, although helping a struggling team would help win a chairman's. But I do believe that veteran or just strong teams need to hold back on just starting new teams for a while and take a good hard look around them and find teams that need some help. Sure its great to start a new team and have those students experience the delight that is FIRST, but I think our goal as a community should be to support those in need rather than starting another team that may not even be able to survive past their first season.

Btw, my intention was not to say that around 50% of the old teams have died out. Just a large number of them.

+$0.02

If anyone disagrees feel free to IM me to discuss an example of such a team tragedy. Perhaps this topic could use a new thread?
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