The Growing Gap in FIRST & on CD, and Our Responsibility to Fix It

[Jay Trzaskos]

Originally Posted by lineskier

I think there is a small percentage of people who will be impacted by first, and I don't believe that the # of teams has any impact on that %.

it is a numbers game, so I don't understand how you can say this. Just running through the numbers, every single year a new group of students enters every high school. every year another group of students leaves for college. impacting one set of students at a single school will never have the necessary outcome of changing the social norm,

And as far as FIRST helping to "fund" sustainability, why keep writing to our representatives to help us start more teams when we could be lobbying for state funding of regional competitions. We could be working to cut down the cost of registration, not by having first 'give' teams more money, but by having our states continually invested in our program at a level that reaches all students.