pic: Arizona Region Team Map

[Jessica Boucher]

Originally Posted by jpsaul7usa

For some crazy reason there are no teams in Scottsdale. I find it hard to believe that a large and very rich city like Scottsdale doesn't have a single high school interested in robotics. I have a feeling that's where a lot of veteran teams are going to go recruiting for new teams this year.

I did a quick search in Hoovers for the Scottsdale area and came up with 72 companies, 38 of them doing over $1mil in sales each year.

Hoovers is a great resource. I have no idea where I'd be without it.

[Amanda M]

See, the funny thing about Arizona is... that there's hardly anyone outside of the Phoenix/Really Big City area. Take Kingman for example. Notice how team 60 is all by itself. That's because if you travel from Phoenix to Kingman you only come across three 'settlements'. I say settlements because I counted Wickenburg (actually a growing town), Wickieup (nearly lifeless, the kids all go to Kingman High School and it's nearly an hour away), and Nothing. Nothing has a population of about 7 I think. Maybe it's 4. I don't really know. So as you drive through Az, you'll notice that Phoenix is really big, and then there's... nothing else. Flagstaff is getting there, and Bullhead might be too, but there's a lot of land between cities.