Current Districts Map. Who is next?

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

As JFK said at Rice University, about 53 years ago, many great things are worth doing because they are hard. Why does Rice play Texas? Why did we choose to go to the moon?

Most potential FIRST students (i.e. all students) weren't alive 53 years ago, haven't heard that speech, and have never been to the moon. The best way to convince them that joining a FIRST team will be good is not to discourage them, which is exactly what embracing "FIRST/STEM is hard" is doing. It's best to let them discover that it's fun before finding out that it's hard, so that, you know, they actually want to do it.

Virtually the same is true of the teachers tasked with starting and maintaining those teams with minimal resources. The best way to let a teacher know that an FRC team is hard is for them to know a previous team failed, or for them to have been involved in that failed team. "If it didn't work the first time, why will it work this time?" is what they're thinking.