[Cory]

Originally Posted by ebarker

I don't want to sound like I'm shrugging anything off. I just think we, the community of FIRST'ers, need to some up with a concise way to help help teams understand how to run a sustainable organization independent of input from an 'HQ'.

#1 - thank the sponsors
#2 - get some press coverage
#3 - do presentations all throughout the off season
#4 - ??

It's difficult to do that when HQ's outwardly visible goal seems to be "start as many teams as humanly possible".