2009 Dallas Regional

[Tazlikesrobots]

Originally Posted by Pavan Dave

I hope that we can get more teams to reestablish themselves, but first we have to think of why they quit and help them work out a solution. If they left because they didn't like it thats one thing, but if they left because they could not recruit students, get funding, or get school (and/or district) support it will be much harder. EVERYONE talks about bringing up new teams, but rarely do I hear of helping sustain teams....

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I do know that some DFW area teams faded away due to loss of funding. Other teams (like 317) faded after their school lost their teacher / sponsor. I believe that there are plenty of companies in the area that would be willing to fund teams, it just may be a matter of locating the companies and pairing them with schools in their community.

If nothing else, we could take a page from the success book from LSR and start an organization in the area like Houstonrobotics.org dedicated to help teams find funding.