What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?

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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

It's time for FIRST to take the next step and offer a model that schools find useful for accomplishing their mission.

This x1000. The fact that many FIRST teams don't get enough support from their schools to sustain for more than a few years, while these same schools give enough support to sustain other forms of sports and education for many years, all while FIRST markets itself as combining the best parts of sports and education, should tell us we're doing something wrong.