... [related] conventions as the ANA and FUN (and a few other colletor shows) for many years where we've not only exposed our club to those attending (thousands) from around the world, but exhibited what we collected as well.

Considring the efforts by those who staffed those tables thru the years, there has been very little interest in what we do by the younger passer-by...

Our hobby is more of an adult-interest hobby due to the fact that it somewhat entails gambling or at least walking into a gambling establishment, unlike reaching into one's pocket to examine a coin or looking at stamps affixed to envelopes which might peak interst (re: YNs' interest in the Numi world)... or walking into a store to buy the latest dictated [TV ads] fad available to youth...

...and my feeling is that unless one is bitten by the chip-collecting bug, there ain't no way we can entice them to "try it out." It has to happen on its own.