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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
As an additional FYI for other posters to this thread, FRC in Texas has been exploding in the last three years and these kinds of situations will be more of the norm. Corpus Christi, Texas did not have any FRC teams until the 2009 season so the local college scene is only going to have a few FRC veteran students with one or two years of FIRST experience. We will need a lot more of the virtual and tele-mentoring resources.
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Andrew's post and awesome information sheds light on the situation here in Texas. Not to sidetrack but it is good for our FRC community to see that Texas is spread thin in all areas, including the 'local college scene' in areas like Corpus Christi. That means that it is also spread thin in graduates of the 'local college scene' who have been exposed to FRC or FIRST, in general.
Mentors, please think about the impact of this on the teams that have formed in recent years and formed for this upcoming season and if you can sign up to help mentor long distance, go for it.
Andrew is one of our robotics heroes here in Texas, who values and cares about teams in FIRST. We are lucky to have him among us.
Jane
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