[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by ebarker

IMHO -
Sustainability is something the FIRST community should be addressing and is NOT something that Manchester should be dealing with. Manchester has other fish to fry. I don't think that 'centrally planned' sustainability efforts will be one hundredth as effective as students maintaining a presence in front of the public and transmitting a steady drip drip of positive messages to their community.

I don't like the idea that we teach students or foster an attitude that we always look to 'HQ' for all the answers. We will be in much better shape as a society to teach students how to run an effective organizations, for-profit, and non-profit. We should teach students how to solve problems, not delegate problems upward.

I think you are shrugging off peoples concerns a little too quickly here. I know many mentors who are attempting to help many teams and struggle to get through a season. Look at some of the posts in this thread already and others scattered throughout CD and you will see a considerable number of mentors stressing how difficult it is to maintain teams.

I don't think anyone is asking that HQ step up and handle this on their own, but we're kind of asking them to help us, help them.

-Brando