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Re: An FRC Family Tree...
I posit that a strong FIRST community requires the eventual development of a cross-linking, circular support web, where as team strengths wax and wain they help others and in their turn receive help themselves.
While I'm sure it's fun to say how many "children" you've spun off, a stronger relationship ensues when the "child" becomes a partner and a certain amount of give and take occurs.
As far as the FRC family tree, I found that it becomes a meaningless morass fairly quickly if you consider the tiniest contact between teams, alumni, ex-mentors, to qualify as having parented or spun off a team. For one it's very hard to document and track such things except through personal accounts.
Also, one team hosting a new shadow team that then becomes a rookie is a much stronger tie than simply adopting a rookie by visiting them a half dozen times during the build season. Actually registering a new team is a much, much stronger connection than lending them a mentor or two.
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