District Feasibility/Potential

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As Boe said, the main thing stopping MN from adopting a Districts model is volunteers-- but it is being seriously considered and steps are being taken to increase the number of active volunteers. Talking with Laurie Shimizu (the regional coordinator up here, otherwise known as dragon-lady), they're making a push to get 3-5 previously uninvolved volunteers from each team by next season. If they can pull off even a fraction of that over the 2014 and 2015 seasons, Minnesota will probably be able to feasibly run a districts model in the 2015 or 2016 season (at least that's the estimate I've been hearing; frankly I'm just a student observer in these sorts of discussions, so I can't comment on how accurate that is).

Also, off-note, Minnesota also has the Minne-Mini-Regional competition, which is hosted typically by 2169 every year in collaboration with a broad assortment of teams (we provided staff and the field for a few years, but moved on to helping with River Rendezvous and Detroit Lakes). I've also heard tell of something coming together with 2512 and 1816, but I haven't seen much out of that.

I'd love to see Minnesota districts, but it won't happen in my time as a student...