Focusing on the strategies employed by Great Britain or Germany is misguided, because the proximal problems for U.S. Juniors are distal problems to European Juniors. The proximal problems for U.S. Juniors, which need to be addressed before the British/German strategies are viable, a

1. Travel. You need to shrink the continental U.S. (3 million sq. miles) by 98.3% for it to be the same size as England (50 thousand sq. miles). That presents a travel nightmare for U.S. pilots wanting to travel to contests. DS has done some epic road trips to fly in contests, but it isn't reasonable to expect other Juniors to have the means/desire to do the same.

2. Access. The fleet of gliders available for use by the U.S. Junior is shockingly small. DS and JPS both have benefactors who allow travel with race-quality gliders, but how many other Juniors have that kind of access?

Solve both of those problems, then start looking at how Germany/Britain address [all the other problems, many of which are common to both the U.S. and the Europeans].

Allowing free contest entry for Juniors was a good first step. Next steps would be to find a way to fund travel expenses and access to quality gliders.

Cheers,
-Mark Rebuck