WE'VE DONE IT!

[Tom I]

So how many other people are looking forward to when the total number of teams reaches OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Marc P.]

Originally Posted by davepowers

Throw up a picture?! I miss those OI's, they took 3 seconds to boot and connect, not 45-90.

-Dave

Of course! Still take only 3 seconds to boot, and still work great. Even the old Victor 883's, with diodes, still work perfectly!

[treffk]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Agreed. Teams in Indiana are collaborating to create an umbrella organization, IndianaFIRST, that will (among other things) generate funding sources, media relations, community support, interteam communications, and general knowledge. We're hoping to make a system that works that other states, regions, and areas can emulate and improve.

The Greater Kansas City area just created our own umbrella organization called KCSTEM and is through UMKC. So far it has been great, although I may be biased due to being on the FLL planning committee.

[Racer26]

I'm not so much trying to say that FRC can't scale to being in every high school, so much as I'm saying that FRC as we know it (with kickoff, KoP, 6 week build, 6 week competition season + a 400 team CMP) can't scale to that level. Theres simply not enough money, manpower, and space for it to make sense. Something would have to give. Breaking it into regions, as has happened with FiM and MAR is a step in the right direction of improving cost-effective scalability, but even that model is still a long way from being able to support a team at every school.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

I'm not so much trying to say that FIRST can't scale to being in every high school, so much as I'm saying that FIRST as we know it (with kickoff, KoP, 6 week build, 6 week competition season + a 400 team CMP) can't scale to that level. Theres simply not enough money, manpower, and space for it to make sense. Something would have to give. Breaking it into regions, as has happened with FiM and MAR is a step in the right direction of improving cost-effective scalability, but even that model is still a long way from being able to support a team at every school.

I agree, but remember - FIRST is not FRC.

[Racer26]

Fixed. Semantics as far as I'm concerned, but whatever.