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Re: Sustainability In FRC Teams

A couple of thoughts. When students graduate from high school they move onto a new segment of their lives. College, career, marriage, family, military service, whatever; which usually leaves little time for things like FIRST. I think it is more realistic to expect to see them reappear 5 or 6 years after college. Which is a good thing in that FIRST has grown to the point that we take it for granted that it will be around in 5 years.

Another under the fund raising flag is the proportional relationship between team growth, number of teams in an area, and the size of the pie that the teams are trying to slice up. Or in other words in a small or medium sized city there is a finite number of business and resources for teams to approach for sponsorship. As the number of teams in a given area increases the slice of the pie for each team can get smaller and some teams will be squeezed out if they do not put the same effort into fund raising as other teams. Like it or not, I believe this to be a truth, and there are lessons to be learned here also.
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