What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by FRC_498

A lot of this should be done and discussed by your mentor team. When we started the team back in 2000, our mentor team #60 offered support with students and mentors always willing to help. (they were about 50 miles away)

Can FIRST do more? Yes to what scope that is idk. I think it falls more on the support from surrounding teams, maybe a better local network of teams?

This assumes they even have a mentor team though. I would suspect many rookies do not, and some that do may not comunicate with them much.

I think it's important to remember that many new teams may start out with an us vs them mentality common to high school sports. Before teams get an understanding of FIRST culture, many collaborative aspects of FRC may be ignored by new teams.