Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by Alex2614

In my experience, if you expect people to volunteer on their own to fill the voids, you won't get much. But if you ask them to volunteer and tell them why they are needed, you may get different results. People may not know that these kinds of volunteers are needed or why they are needed, even if it is up on FIRST's website for everyone to see. My hypothesis is that there are a number of people who would put in the time for one of these key positions if they knew how badly they were needed to move forward with districts, or even what the volunteers do. I'm sure we have many parents/mentors on our team who are clueless about where their abilities could be useful as an event volunteer.

Our regional director sent out an email yesterday to all team contacts requesting the following:

10,000 Lakes
Field Reset (7)
Flag assistants (2)
Safety Advisor (1)
Safety Glasses: Friday and Saturday
Spare Parts Desk (2)

North Star:
Welcome Table/Event Concierge (2)
Team Queuing (1)
Saturday - Safety Glasses attendants
Practice Field (1)

Volunteering for one of these positions is the first step towards many other positions.

Additionally, he sent out the following to all team contacts in December:

Technical Volunteers Wanted!

Volunteering is a blast at Minnesota FIRST Regional Competitions. Positions that require pre-event training are filling now, including Scorekeeper, Control System Advisor and Robot Inspector, for all four events. Events require a minimum of 10 robot inspectors, 2 CSAs, and 2 Scorekeepers. Sign up today via FIRST and the VIMS: https://my.firstinspires.org/FIRSTPo...IMS_Login.aspx. Questions can be sent to Laurie Shimizu, FIRST Senior Mentor & Volunteer Coordinator, at lshimizu@firstinspires.org.

No one is trying to keep volunteering a secret.