What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?

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Originally Posted by cbale2000

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.

Yes that is true. Maybe part of the role of the local FIRST level should be to assign a buddy team to rookies?