pic: Spread of US FIRST Teams

[gblake]

Originally Posted by IndySam

One of those dots around Cincinnati is team 554 from Ft. Thomas, KY. It is surprising that there are no teams in the Louisville or Knoxville areas.

I am a U Ky BSEE alumnus and a Triangle Fraternity (a "greek" fraternity of engineers architects and scientists) alumnus.

Kentucky is in my sights. The problem is that I live in Northern VA....

At UK there is an FRC judge in the College of Engineering who has establishing connections between the college, its coop program and businesses as part of his duties.

I took classes from the Engineer/Entrepreneur who is now the president of the University, and I am 100% confident he would encourage FIRST to put the pedal-to-the-metal in Kentucky.

UK and U of L, respectively are within about 90 and 120 minutes of Ft Thomas.

The Triangle Chapters at both schools are good strong groups of young studious leaders involved in their campuses and their communities.

What "we" need to do is to get a link between those pools of talent and labor, and 2-3 schools in each city. In three to five years FIRST, UK/UL and Triangle will all be stronger and have grown.... And then we can move on to starting teams in my hometown of Lone Oak / Paducah; where UK has a large satellite campus of their engineering college (and then Ashland, Bowling Green, Frankfort, Georgetown (Toyota Camry), Morehead, Murray,...)

Who knows of any other resources in Ky?

Who is close enough to Lexington/Louisville to take advantage of the current circumstances and turn those resources into a perfect storm?

Blake