Starting FRC at School with VEX Team?

[Enthurzan]

I go to a private school in Atlanta, Georgia, and I recently was introduced to FRC and got hooked on the idea of doing it. My school has 4 VEX teams (all under the umbrella of our school), but I'm still really interested in the idea of FRC. From past experience and hearing remarks about FRC, the current coach does not want to do FRC for another 2-3 years, or basically when I'm a senior, which I feel would be a wasted year because it's the rookie year where you're supposed to be learning how to do everything so you can do well in year 2, the year I'd be a freshman in college. (If we started a team, I'd still work on it though because I really want to be on an FRC team) My question is, is there any way I can still get involved with First that's not part of school, or am I basically out of luck for high school?