Should teams be allowed to attend multiple regionals?

[Shu Song]

Agreed. Our team would love to help start new teams in our area, but we just don't have the funds. Every year before kick off, we struggle to get secure funds to register for the first regional. At that time, no one is even thinking about a 2nd or 3rd regional, or even championships. This gives us no possible way to spend our funds on anything other than for our own team.

I realize that the real world operates like this, that every project hinges on amount of money involved. But if the true mission of FIRST is to get kids invovled in science and technology through the really fun competition, then shouldn't every team get the means to be able to spread the word of FIRST.

Every year I hear the homework assignment from Dean, and every year I wanted my team to try and start up a new team in a nearby high school, but year after year, we fall short on money and there is simply no time or money to to do anything.

That's my spiel.

[Sakura141]

My team attends 3 or 4 regionals every year, and each year we make attempts to get another team started at that highschool, they refuse to accept us though, they don't have any interest... and that saddens me that they don't