There are some significant challenges ahead for our Junior and Senior FAI programs. The Committee needs to be proactive in bringing participants to our sport. This involves creating an environment where our Junior competitors can easily compete in the Team Selection process. We also need to increase participation among those that might be losing interest in competing for the team for a variety of reasons. We need to foster programs like those in place in our district run by Rocco Ferrario and see if we can assist his students in making the jump to FAI. Another challenge will involve improving our Team Program processes to foster participation while ultimately picking a competitive team. I appreciate those efforts made most recently in adopting a new selection process. I am extremely appreciative of Aimee Schroedter's efforts with the with the Finals this year. I would consider adopting a program where FAI participants vote on a Finals Director who would then run the Finals and be rewarded for their efforts by being appointed team manager for that team. Aimee did not get that opportunity this year but process could be adopted in the future.