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Originally Posted by JesseK
FIRST must evolve in order to expand; is that a bad thing? There's all of this assumption of power hungriness without even minute consideration to that what one doesn't know. What's amazing to me is that 4 years ago I could have empathized with this statement and now I can only imagine a little kid sticking his thumbs in his ears so he doesn't have to listen to what he doesn't want to hear. The same principles that work at a small scale of 500 teams and 20 regionals are completely annihilated on the scale of 1600 teams with 40+ regionals. Should the energies of HQ be spent over every squabble or grievance of every team or should HQ delegate those out and focus on bigger picture items, like trying to achieve its goal of inspiring even more kids?
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Many mentors around my age and older, who were FIRST students and now are mentors are irritated and almost fed up with FIRST to the point where we're uninspired by FIRST now. Is the point to gain a new base but lose an old one? The point is to inspire but if the contrary, is it really worth it?