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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
Part of the problem is the way schools view FRC: administration sees this as a club. The mentor doesn't get a stipend, and other than build space the school and the county offer no additional resources.
It becomes a marketing problem: marketing the value of FRC and other programs to school administration. A farm system would also help.
And I agree: schools here don't seem to cooperate with each other. At all.
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Not enough people talk about the "reverse farm system", which is identifying, inspiring, engaging, and enabling students of the program to become productive alumni in the program as mentors. The hardest thing to come by in FIRST is enough stupid crazy people who care too much and keep greasing the wheels despite the constant wrangling of the crazy environment the factions of FIRST HQ, the local affiliates, the team's sponsoring organization, and the internal stakeholders of the team come together (or wildly diverge) in creating.
People will only work toward common goals when they are part of the goal-setting process. - GaryVoshol [more] 
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