Texas Registration 2014

[Michael Blake]

Originally Posted by lynca

I wanted to get all the bright minds together to discuss the Texas Registration Problem.

Current Texas registration is around 90 teams, which is a significant drop from 139 in 2013.

Here's a chart of the Texas Registration Growth since 2003
http://2013.discobots.org/node/84

Any ideas on how to revive these teams ?

Andrew... you're right to be alarmed by the numbers!

I'm in the middle of my 5th FTC season and about to embark on my 4th FRC season... and I think I've become seasoned enough to know what's going on in Texas and can formulate relevant solutions that would help build towards getting to what Michigan has.

However, trying to do this on CD _never works_ because in my experiences as soon as you touch-on the sacred-cows and the sacred-people, the flaming begins, and the "smarter-than-everyone-else-in-their-own-minds" folks show up, and then the whole thing devolves into irrelevant back-and-forths.

EVERYONE involved in FIRST, in my experience, are good people with good intentions. But, if we're not going to talk in specifics and only in generalities because if we get specific it then forces people to be accountable for their actions and/or their lack of actions, then it's ultimately a futile exercise because it always devolves into the above description.

--Michael Blake