What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?

[jman4747]

Originally Posted by dk5sm5luigi

If you solve this then you will solve most of the problems. I have seen many teams with little funding survive because their primary mentor went out of their way to do what ever they needed to keep the team running. You lose that mentor and the team disappears.

This is also a major reason why it is hard to start new teams. You need to find that mentor who is crazy enough to start a team.

This and...

Originally Posted by marshall

Eliminate bag day.

And with that I'm pretty sure some of you will have finished a bingo card.

(I can list several ways this can save money and mentor burnout but we've already been over it before... Just think about it seriously please) And of course registration costs in general need to come down.

And

Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

This might be the most important step. VEX offers a curriculum that allows school districts to justify assigning a teacher to the program.

One other thing that absolutely needs to happen is just getting a higher percentage of the engineering population involved in the first place. For as much as we talk about getting new people interested in STEM I still run in to countless engineers who don't know about what we do. I think we would be well served by getting more of these people involved.