What's The Coolest Thing A Team Can Give Out?

[SarahB]

Originally posted by jadien
I don't think anyone can touch StuyPulse 694's premiums... 7/16 wrenches with our logo on it and beach balls ^-^

I loved those wrenches... I play with mine all the time in class. And it boosted my physics grade as our teacher is obsessed with Stuyvesant :D.

But of course the coolest handouts are the BMS bags. Especially the FURY ones.

[AlbertW]

Originally posted by utishpenguin
talking about premiums.... while we were making buttons... the lamenating didn't go on completely.. being the money saving person i am... i woudl tear out the lamenating with eth paper still intact with the pin and called a premiums.... hahahaha and when our mentee messed up a bit... we called it mentee edition... cross apply logic to the appearance of mentor editions......some upside down ones are collectors edition... i mean if stamps are printed upside down its valuable right???

yeah... mentee editions are worth more than mentor editions... cause we never screwed up! ;)

::sigh:: you and your premiums... and the ones that "passed the test"

we had a big thing with buttons being "within desired parameters." if they weren't, we'd run em through the button-maker again VERTICALLY so they get bent and are unusable :D

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Our team gave out many different things. Last year we just gave out buttons. Very Boring. This year we cranked it up many notches. We handed out boxes of usefull stuff to the judges, lil flashy thingies, buttons (of course), kazoos, and clappers. Hehe.

Budda648

[MikeFromTeam71]

this year we have watches, buttons, lil wrench pens, trolls with 71 across the butt, and nVidia glow pads that stick to stuff. its really cool. if anybody has something good to trade, come see mike in the 71 pits, just look for the curie division. :)

[utishpenguin]

Originally posted by Aonic
yeah... mentee editions are worth more than mentor editions... cause we never screwed up! ;)

::sigh:: you and your premiums... and the ones that "passed the test"

we had a big thing with buttons being "within desired parameters." if they weren't, we'd run em through the button-maker again VERTICALLY so they get bent and are unusable :D


besides, you were making OUR pins.... remember? not that you had errors ..... pshhhhhhhhhh as if we really give out those precious editions! oh! we have the albino bulls! for those who don't know.. the person who was printing the pin design ran out of yellow ink casuing our yellow bull to be WHITE! ooooOOOoOOoo yeah.... those are cool

[Beth Sweet]

What about phone cards???

Team 67 and 447 have handed those out in the past few years and they have been great for when i forget my cell phone and i have a lack of proper change....

I think you're thinking of 68 not us, but hey, we may be... lol

[the fabricator]

i think evryone should give out socks, i dont no but that would be so funny, "here u go sum more gym socks to shove in ur locker"

[unixfreak]

spam... now there's an idea. it's a good one i think. you know how during matches, you get hungry, but you're not always able to get food? well, with spam, you could keep food on you all the time and never have to worry about it going bad! sounds like a solid idea to me.

Chris

/me is disgusted at what he just wrote ;-)


Yes... Spam is EXTREMELY nasty stuff... (but the team is cool :D )

[Ben Mitchell]

102 gave out mousepads and frisbees.

Definitely good choices of things to give out in my book. I use the mousepad and had a great time with the frisbee during breaks in the competition.

[George]

Hi,

How about steam engines as trophys??
Nice mounting, and engraved.
Student made off season?
could be cool.....

Geo.

[Pin Man]

i think evryone should give out socks, i dont no but that would be so funny, "here u go sum more gym socks to shove in ur locker"

Team 88 trades socks! we make them and screen print them... they are awesome

[Dave Campbell]

Bobbleheads of Dean and Woodie !!!!!!

[KenWittlief]

Hugs!

[NullTerminator]

how bout VIDEO GAME DEMOS ! :D :D :D i get free ones every month lol :D

[UnStumpable237]

Why aren't simple T-shirts on the poll? :confused: :confused: :confused:
I like team T-shirts.

[kevin.li.rit]

Because I ran out of "I'm with Nerd" T-shirts.

[Dale(294engr]]

What you guys haven't seen the cool scrolling message electronic badges ??

more info: www.DigitalBadge.com

Check out Photogallery, Regionals, So Calif 1st pict

We'll be wearing them at the Nationals: Newton Div

but not likely as give-aways they are $$...%^&*()@#$

[MASherry]

yo glowsticks are awesome, our team gave them out at the NYC regional and i would wear a bunch on my neck and walk around the pits looking at bots, and i would run out in like 2 minutes!!!

[BoyWithCape195]

Well seeing how it is forbidden for teams to hand out food during the competition, it should be removed..., it is a new rule this year

[Clark Gilbert]

Well seeing how it is forbidden for teams to hand out food during the competition, it should be removed..., it is a new rule this year
Hey guys, atleast the people who have replied today. I thought I would let you know this thread was created over 2 years ago.... :)

[BoyWithCape195]

Hey guys, atleast the people who have replied today. I thought I would let you know this thread was created over 2 years ago.... :)

that could be why theres so many posts, but some one reactivated it...

[pickle]

Someone at the midwest one was giving out spoons I think....

The nastiest thing given out was at the lonestr regional... I don't remember the team number, but it was like biohazard or something like that, they gave out this goop, really nasty stuff, it ended up in bags on the bus trip home... and on peoples clothes, and in hair, and it was just yuck.....

Oh! The best thing by far, was at the Midwest Regional (again, I'm bad with team numbers, I didn't get to spend much time socializing, we were in a crisis panic), they gave out peices of their old robot. They sliced the extrusion stuff like bread, and its a great addition to my nerdy keychain!

[Grommit]

I must mention that I very much appreciated a souvenir bag... I had begun to stab myself with all those buttons before I could put 'em all in a bag.

[FizMan]

WHAT?!?!

Laff, my team's glow sticks aren't on the list!!!11 They're always a big hit...

but the coolest swag I've seen? At the CDN regional, this one team was handing out these flashing star lights that you could pin on just aboot everything with magnets.... then I lost mine! :'(

I found mine on the ground, and everyone kept asking me who the team was... and I STILL don't know! Who was it?

[Ryan M.]

DVDs are very cool. Well edited clips of your team in action can say so much more about your team than a half-way decent (;)) logo on a button.

I like the way so many people are for candy. :)

[BlueOrion]

We have a lot to give out, and people on our team don't want to add anything else to the list, just for the sake of their sanity and such. Buttons, candy, pocket CD's, brochures...that's mostly it. Our candy is nifty though...it even comes sealed with a Miss Daisy sticker.

Everyone says people should hand out food...kinda funny that the "rules" that I, of course, never follow say that teams can't hand out "candy, water, soft drinks, or fruit or noisy devices." Hah! Robotics is LOUD to begin with and we can't live without food...robotics people eat constantly. Rules are made to be forgotten and broken, that's what I say.

[DarkJedi613]

We're giving out silly puddy this year :) - I think its pretty neat :D

[Elgin Clock]

Well seeing how it is forbidden for teams to hand out food during the competition, it should be removed..., it is a new rule this year
I know one team who went to NYC regional this year that gave out candy - pink candy. :D

[pickle]

ooh! The thunder chickens gave out chickens!!! Those were awesome!!

[Alex Pelan]

Anything electronic/interactive is very cool. Food is also never refused :-D

[MisterX]

Hmmm. the team is right on the tip of my tongue but at UTC they had those nifty little pen/keychains that they were handing out. those were pretty nifty and unique, never the less they were quite the comodity ;)

Oh those stress balls from 236 Techno Tickz were also pretty nifty and very usefull during alliance pairing and playoff matches :rolleyes:

[Elgin Clock]

In Atlanta we will have a limited edition object. Limited to 500..
Well, ok.. maybe 499. One of our mentors had fun with part of one tonight involving goat cheese.. :rolleyes:

Can't tell you what it is, but think 1999 Team 237 giveaways. :D
C'mon to Team 237's pit in Archimedes and get one!! You will be glad you did!

[looneylin]

i can give a hug! lolz.
i like buttons the best. this one team gave me advil which may or may not be a good thing :D

[Joshua May]

Last year my team handed out maze pens with our team name and number printed on them. They come in a variety of colors and were an extremely successful handout at SoCal.

One really cool handout I saw this year was team 691 "Hartburn" which gave out red hots in what looked like prescription bottles. Our advisor freaked when he saw all of us guzzling down "pills" out of bottles.

[Zzyzx]

The Best "Give-Away" would definately be Ultimate Frizbees with your team logo on it, and a web adress. The reason I put give-away in quotes is that it might be to expensive to make just to hand out, maybe $3 or somthing like that. I have moticed that there are a lot of Ultimate players at FIRST events.

[skrussel]

Don't remember who, but last year at Nats, a team gave out mini limit switches. The real thing. They put them on little gold colored chains, and mine is now on my key chain. Love it! Play with it all the time.

I also like - best of all - blinking, flashing buttons!

Hey Adam.....email me, and I'll send you a FIRST bumper sticker. We're giving them out at the Sweet Repeat next October, but you can get a preview! :yikes:

[Bcahn836]

I like the Mardi Gras beads my team gave out. They were sent from Gulfport, Mississippi, all the way to Maryland.

[Michael Corsetto]

My team handed out hand made shrinky-dink pins shaped as labcoats. WOOT to the 114 labcoats. Had a limited stock though, so we only gave 1 or 2 to each team.

[Nate Edwards]

My Team at Nationals gave out Fans. WE had over 300 of them and didn't come back with more then 2. We went up and around the stands handing the fans out to people cause it was hot ... we will bring them back next year and have more. We are still trying to find our one we attended for Sir Charles. We wrote all this stuff on the back of fan with some of his sayings, but then accidently handed it out.
Nate

[Rich Wong]

One of my favorite Team gifts is a 2003 ThunderChickens 217 waterbottle which I use every day in the gym.

[tckma]

This year 422 handed out "I drive my other car with JOYSTICKS" as a bumper sticker, but they were too small and tended to become one with a car's paint (read: personal experience). A very zen sticker if I say so myself.

Had the same experience with the 422 "bumper" sticker in 2002. ("last year," hm, I'm replying to an old message. That's what happens when you do a google search on "I drive my other car with joysticks" I suppose.)

I want one of those bumper stickers, except on a REAL bumper sticker.
;)

[cortlyn]

this year we gave out a dvd to each team at the FLR event. it was about a 5-7 min video of our teams process of building. being a rookie team i thought this was great. during the finals, between matches, to our surprise they played our dvd on the big screen, and it was great! :)

[Iain McLeod]

hmm.... I know pat said it earlier, but we gave out silly putty last year...

I like:
-this little keychain with a robot made of random screws and nuts and stuff and I really don't remember which team it came from but it's so cool (and cute)
-the devil duckies (team #?)
-team 87's hacky sacks (and I don't even play hackysack, I just thing it's cool. It's right next to me now actually. It lives in the robotics room.)

[SURVIVORfan44]

Well I got GermX! to sponsor 616 this year so it was obvious that I was giving out Hand Sanitizer. Everyone knows about my huge phobia of....NORWALK!!! People who came up to me didn't leave without a squirt of hand sanitizer, or a little sample packet thing. It was interesting. I also put a bottle up where the napkins/food stuff was. The end of the day...the bottle was almost empty so it was great. Other than our wonderful hand sanitizer, the Robodog's buttons were neat. They had these unique square buttons. 1413 gave out these little hat looking things that were foamy.

[sdexp]

I doubt that anything is refused. The most appreciated giveaway of course is information (digital or hard) pertinent to the robotics events. Our team [1111] does that and will at this year's Chesapeake Regional.

[Koko Ed]

This year we went with flashing paws and they went like hotcakes (just like the Visioneers did). WHen we are down in Atlanta don't ask me for any. I don't have any. Go find one of our kids.

[i_am_Doug]

i'll give a hug?

-anton
i second that motion

[krunch79prez]

the best which wasnt on the list is definitely team trading cards!!!! (we are doing that so collect and win an awesome prize at UCF, chicago, or atlanta)

[Shu Song]

The martians that team 494 were giving out were definitely really hot!

[Simon Strauss]

im a rookie so i dont know whats been given out in the past but we've been thinking about tucking the team bumper sticker under the winsheild wipers of all the cars in the parking lot at comp. visors might be cool and dispite what people might think buttons are always going to be a classic. oh yeah and i like the hug idea too.

[JohnnyB]

Im surprised to see so few replies about the rubber chicken keychains we hand out. At FLR I was getting pounced on when i was going around in the chicken suit with a bucket full of them.

my favorite swag would probably be any kind of small keychain that is neat or quirky, or maybe has a small amount of interactivity... though I havent really recieved anything like this.

buttons never get old

[rocknthehawk]

this year team 549 made specail keychains that we gave to each drive team we played with...they were metal and we milled out " DEVIL DAWGS" on one side, and "549" on the other...people were asking for them, so i assume they went over well.

[krunch79prez]

time out............ why is team candy up there when you cant give out food, drinks, or candy at FIRST events. just thought id point that one out!!!

[dez250]

time out............ why is team candy up there when you cant give out food, drinks, or candy at FIRST events. just thought id point that one out!!!

Look at the age of this thread, this thread started before that rule was published.

[whakojacko]

this isnt for everyone, but 254 gives out their own awards at competitions, i think its kinda cool and fun . We won 254's innovative design award at sacramento this year, were honored with it :).

[JohnnyB]

time out............ why is team candy up there when you cant give out food, drinks, or candy at FIRST events. just thought id point that one out!!!

We (Team 217) used to give out Peeps in little plastic egg shells... that was amazingly awesome. I think we did it at one of the regionals last year (chicago maybe?) and got away with it.

[Rick TYler]

The world of marketing promotions is indeed wide and wonderful. Just Google on "marketing promotions" for tens of thousands of ideas. I think these paddle balls (http://www.branders.com/s/Promotional-Paddle-Balls-12032.html) with your team logo would be just the ticket.

[Salik Syed]

By far beach balls !
Team 330 beach bots kept me entertained freshmen year... @ the LA regional i mean there wasn't anything to do so we played with balls ran around the stadium etc.. LOL

[Bcahn836]

At the BAE Systems regional we gave out fortune cookies, and the fortunes were made up by the team. They said things like "this cookie is the perfect cure for a mountain dew overdose" and another had something in binary i think it said team 836. they were pretty popular and we ran out quickly i don't know if thats is from other teams or my own eating them.

[impulse3D]

TJ Squared gave out nifty tie-died wrist bands last year at SBPLI. It really made the place colorful. :)

There is also an Online Database (http://dsd-database.impulse3d.com) that's hosted specifically for tracking comprehensive team information that also has a local application component (http://dsd.impulse3d.com/downloads.php) to it. I think the Online Database is pretty cool and it would be especially useful once a lot of teams begin using it. :D The development team of that software also handed out an older version of the software last year at SBPLI.

[MrAmazing]

Our original idea was to give out Alien(our mascot) Lollipops. However, we then found out that we were not allowed to give out food at the competition. A couple weeks ago I was notified that EBGames was going to sponser us. Now we are most likely going to give out EBGames Coupons...

[Petey]

I have to post what our team did this year:

Throw paratrooper army men with 1073 written on their parachutes from the top level of BAE before opening ceremonies on Saturday.

--Petey

[JohnnyB]

A couple weeks ago I was notified that EBGames was going to sponser us. Now we are most likely going to give out EBGames Coupons...

EEEE thats exciting. Hope you guys are at Nationals and in my division!
:D

[Twstdkittie]

Hey, I actually liked 540's last minute, cheap as all idea of a game. I don't know how they did it, and I don't know if it was any good. Anybody get one at VCU Regionals??

[Alex Cormier]

my favorite are the squishy martin that the martians gave out at Finger Lakes Regional.

[JohnnyB]

my favorite are the squishy martin that the martians gave out at Finger Lakes Regional.

That was cool when they all stood in front of the audience and threw them up into the stands.

[SURVIVORfan44]

Hey, I actually liked 540's last minute, cheap as all idea of a game. I don't know how they did it, and I don't know if it was any good. Anybody get one at VCU Regionals??


What did 540 give out? I didn't get anything from them, I don't think?

[Peter Matteson]

Didn't go through every post to see if this was mentioned, but we gave out Sharpie markers with our logo last year.

[wilshire]

team shirts... or you could sell them for pretty cheap

[Andrew Y.]

i like the little flashing bottuns and stuff :D :D

[scali]

Well, at the NH regional, I personally went around to each team's pit and gave them a CD with my trading card program so they can make their own trading cards... the handout that gives you handouts =P

Although at the regional... everyone wanted one of my mini-sombreros... hell, I even had most of them get stolen right out of our pit despite the fact that I hid them under a pile of stuff. I went in with 30 and left with 6... man, those were $4 each. If I could have handed them out, I would have... but I didn't have enough... I even saw 2 volunteers with one hanging from their laniard-identity-tag-thingies.

[MOE]

HELLOOoooo
Years ago the big thing was TYE-DYE MOE SOCKS from TEAM 88 a lot of people still have them check out teams 25,47,100,111, 126, 133, 190, 213, 501,885, 1073, even more. Maybe we will bring them back????????
It is always fun to see what different teams come up with.
Had a super time in NH, SEE ALL in MD or GA
GOOD LUCK TO ALL
MOE and TEAM 88 TJ2

[Steve Yasick]

Team 85 gives out shop rags. They look good but you can't eat them!

[D.Fahringer]

How about this Team 122 Omniwheel pendant? Rollers roll, and in any color!

[Petey]

Speaking of trading cards...


Logo Loc now has trading cards! (http://logoloc.com/first/13009.html)

And they feature everyone's favorite 2004 robot...Scorpius!

--Petey

[Kyle Love]

The coolest giveaway of all time will be given out at the boilermaker regional next week by 45...what could it be??? :p Seriously, I think its awesome!

[Denman]

[slightly irrelavent]wow this thread is 3 years old [/irrelevantness]
Having spent a couple of hours just making about 100 pins/badges today i now understand why we only had 100 to give out last year lol.
To be honest, anything a team gives out is cool

[Wayne Doenges]

Team 1501 is handing out wing pins. Just like the pilots wear :D

Wayne Doenges
Lemmings non sumus

ps Kyle-45, save me a handout plz :)

[Adam Richards]

Coconuts.

[bbene]

I personally like what my team gives out. They seem to be a hit at regionals every year. We design and mill out keychains with cnc machines. Here's a pictuere of this year's keychain. The final design looks a little bit different. We actually actually started to sandblast them before the final cutting of the design so that the keychain has a cool sandblasted look with a shiny design for the cut out.

[ClicheCow]

we wanted to give out spent nuclear fuel rods last year (our team is sponsored by a nuclear power plant, dominion) but thenone of our mentors told us that was dangerous and wasnt funny. We still maintain that it is funny

[Vin211]

What I usually help out with and give out on behalf of Team 195, The Cyber Knights are picture CD's. This year @ UTC I was handing out Pictures of all the robots that attended the 2005 Copmetition in Hartford. I also when into my personal archives and found robots from 2002 and 2004 to put along with the 2005 bots.

I think that's pretty cool. You can remember great plays on the field and memorable times in the pit but I guarantee you may have a tough time remembering what certain bots look like! Lol.

[Elgin Clock]

we wanted to give out spent nuclear fuel rods last year (our team is sponsored by a nuclear power plant, dominion) but thenone of our mentors told us that was dangerous and wasnt funny. We still maintain that it is funnyYou should give out green glow sticks with fake hazardous material stickers on them. :ahh:
That would be funny, AND safe.

Just um.. don't bite the tips off the glow sticks and get any in your mouth.. yeah.. that's um.. not funny.. :o

[Cyber Punk 234]

that sounds sweet.
we gave out some magnetic flashing blue lights at FL.

[DrRichope]

team 842 gave out pieces fiberglass that came from our passed robots it was pretty cool

[Kyle]

That fiberglass must be cleaned off or something right? cause I know it really sucks to get that stuff in your hands.

[katkana]

That fiberglass must be cleaned off or something right? cause I know it really sucks to get that stuff in your hands.

Even moreso to get it on your clothes. 'Cause once those start itching you're outta luck for the rest of the day :/

So says the voice of experience. *grimace*

Anyway... our team this year decided to hand out bumper stickers with a picture of Bender on them and a cool little logo.

[Alex Pelan]

The handouts that stood out to me the most at UTC this year were given out by 236. They gave out "Tick" Tacs...nothing like edible handouts :) . The Got Bot? stickers were also quite nice.

[Cody Carey]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35435
I feel dejected... or rejected... or something.

[DDRAngelKurumi]

SOmeoine gave me a kazoo! (spelling?)

[funstuff]

How about a successful autonomous code from a team that uses the vision tetras??? EHH??? Any takers? (yes this is an offer)

[Denman]

i know in previous years we have bought bags of english pennies and things over... dont know this year....

[NiGhtMarE_AnGeL]

Team Button
Team Sticker
Team Bumper-Sticker
Team Candy

i like these...lol
we're gonna have an interesting bumpersticker...hehehehehe....but i wont tell u till we get them made! haha
also, i got a flashing pin from the jesters and also a lay lol. oh and caution tape!!!
we make buttins, BUT
THE LIL ADOPT A DEVIL DUCKIE and also our beads are awesome!

i think water would be cool...meebee food, but i might be afraid to eat it no offense

[neilcooper]

mini squirt guns oh yeah

[Anubuss]

Oh come on, i gota have an option for shop rags. :) I mean, what could be cooler than a gift that keeps on giveing? You can fix anything with shop rangs. Just ask any member of my team at a competition amd they'll tell ya "You gota have shop rags".

[Alex357]

It definately wasn't on the poll, but the coolest thing i've ever gotten was a cow tail.

[BreakDancingCow]

So, you like our cow tails? For the Annapolis regional we have these cool keychains that open up and have a little screwdriver set inside of them. Sorry we didn't have them for Pitt....They came in the thursday we left to go to the regional, but we had already left. But hasn't anyone received any of our cow print bandanas that we have been handing out last year and this year and probably longer than i know?

[JackN]

I think the little stuffed martians we give out are pretty cool.

[pyroslev]

My team had tomahawks that we made. My friend traded two of them for one shirt. Thats probably the best trade I have heard of. Between a shirt and a representative item of the team, I'd pick an item (Like our tomahawks).

[VelvetFlash]

One of the coolest things I've seen at the event in the past 2 days has been team 223's safety glasses. Completely functional, and to be honest a lot better than the ones we were using beforehand :p

[psquared89]

For anyone who's ever been to Great Lakes Regional (and Detriot this year too), after finals, before awards, we spread out through the stands and at a preassigned time start handing out our airplanes (balsa wood with sponsor names on wings, weighted nose; they fly very well...). It is the most amazing sight ever to see literally hundreds of airplanes flying down to the field at once. It's the paper airplane, improved.

[SteveO]

Hopefully at the Las Vegas regional and nationals we will be handing out poker chips. Cool? :D

[thoughtful]

Hopefully at the Las Vegas regional and nationals we will be handing out poker chips. Cool? :D

Awesome, just what our team needs at the nationals ;)

[ARcanUSNUMquam]

1072 had these awesome 1072 fishes that they gave out. Think the Jesus fish, except with 1072 in them. Ingenioius. See Pic.

[team66t-money]

next year we are going to pass out silly putty

[JohnnyB]

For anyone who's ever been to Great Lakes Regional (and Detriot this year too), after finals, before awards, we spread out through the stands and at a preassigned time start handing out our airplanes (balsa wood with sponsor names on wings, weighted nose; they fly very well...). It is the most amazing sight ever to see literally hundreds of airplanes flying down to the field at once. It's the paper airplane, improved.


Yeah and it's the first time I've ever heard FIRST tell people in the stands to stop doing something. That was HILARIOUS. You guys are wild.

[deathbycornchip]

i got some silly putty form one team and it is fun to play with

[dubious elise]

Well, as much as I dislike tooting my own horn, I have to admit that our bumper stickers were pretty neat this year...a refreshing change from the usual pins. I just wish that I had been able to drag my camera around more often, they were turning up in the strangest places at MWR and BMR...refs, judges, our own robot, drivers, announcers, other robots, even vision tetras themselves!

I have to say, the dark safety glasses that the TechnoKats (45) dished out were great as were the earplugs from QC Elite (648)... I needed both pretty badly as both pairs of my previous safety glasses disappeared and my rapidly declining hearing isn't being helped by attending competitions.

[angelofsumthin]

the best thing that ive ever gotten was hand sanitizer from 204
but thats because im a stickler for hand sanitizer
at the drexel regional sumone was giving out little blowing thingys that made a sound like a baby crying and everyone had one in one part of the stands and the announcer yelled at them it was fun

[Collmandoman]

nothing -- give the money to charity

[Justin1636]

At the colorado regional team 1552 were handing out yo yos with there mascot the cougar on it

[thatrotierkid]

id have to say our team had the coolest handouts this year bar none...
sorry to all of you who like the slinkies and candy, but you cant beat ours :cool:

this year my team (40) had a student design a double layered maze using CAD and AutoDesk. the maze was 2"x2"x1/2" and was red and white checkered (which matched the paint job on out robot and our team rugby shirts). it used a .1" steel bb that went up and down the paths and could fall through holes to the other side of the maze.

we had about 60 to hand out at BAE and they went faster than you can imagine. we made 100 more for Waterloo and those went like lightening. the student personally designed them to be extremely addictive and aggravating to solve.

fyi, we made another game like this last year and during break Dean Kamen and all of the judges were playnig with them. :)

sorry to disappoint, but u cant beat those :D

[Mr. Lim]

this year my team (40) had a student design a double layered maze using CAD and AutoDesk. the maze was 2"x2"x1/2" and was red and white checkered (which matched the paint job on out robot and our team rugby shirts). it used a .1" steel bb that went up and down the paths and could fall through holes to the other side of the maze.

YES! These things were AWESOME!

Team 188's giveaways are decks of playing cards with the Blizzard logo on the back. (See my avatar)

You probably haven't seen them, because they're extremely "limited edition," but every team at Pittsburgh and Waterloo got two packs each. So if you were lucky enough to get one :ahh: ...

-SlimBoJones...

[jamesgecko]

My team has been looking at givaways for nationals (yeah, it's kinda late for buttons)
One of the easiest and cheapest things we could come up with were Custom Linux Live-disks. Just remaster Knoppix, rip everything out and put in our favorite *nix programs and cool team wallpaper, and voila! Is this a good givaway, or should we stick to overpriced buttons?

[RoboMom]

Waterless hand cleaner. A favorite with those of us who are lucky enough to do lots of high fives. ;)

[NeedMoreEngines]

The coolest thing I ever got was...ready for this? you better be sitting down 'cause this is gonna be big. The Somerville HS team (101 or 102) was handing out...ready?...BOTTLES OF HAND-SANITIZER THAT HAD BELT HOLSTERS ON THEM! Yeah, I know. You're probably thinking, "It's genius, how could someone have thought of something so simple, yet so marvelous??" They were sponsored by Verizon and were walking around with huge bags with frisbees, hacky sacks, buttons, THE HAND SANITZER, and other stuff.
At the Trenton Regional we all walked around flashing our new hand sanitzer holsters. That's right. I bet you wish you had one of these.
Kudos to team 102...or is it 101?

Mike F.
Your next door neighbors, Immaculata High School
Team 1279- cold Fusion Robotics.

[slickguy2007]

The coolest thing I ever got was...ready for this? you better be sitting down 'cause this is gonna be big. The Somerville HS team (101 or 102) was handing out...ready?...BOTTLES OF HAND-SANITIZER THAT HAD BELT HOLSTERS ON THEM! Yeah, I know. You're probably thinking, "It's genius, how could someone have thought of something so simple, yet so marvelous??" They were sponsored by Verizon and were walking around with huge bags with frisbees, hacky sacks, buttons, THE HAND SANITZER, and other stuff.
At the Trenton Regional we all walked around flashing our new hand sanitzer holsters. That's right. I bet you wish you had one of these.
Kudos to team 102...or is it 101?

Mike F.
Your next door neighbors, Immaculata High School
Team 1279- cold Fusion Robotics.


Its team 102.

GO 1403!!!

[the_short1]

yea.. we give out these cool little medalions.. http://67.18.37.18/2213/155/upload/p810067.jpg precision edge makes them with a lazer.. they are faily expensive.. i think 3$ a pop and we handed out over 300 at toronto and over 150 at GLR. . . .. *thanks to precision edge they were free :d.... we thought EVERYONE would have a lanyard we heard they were common giveaways and were shocked that many ppl did not have one to put the medalion on.. so ppl stuck another teams button's pin thru the hole at the top.. and then stuck it to their shirts etc..

.but i thought the beach balls (dunno team @ Toronto) and freesbees (frog force @ GLR)were cool ... and the ontario power light thingys were cool at toronto . .adn i didnlt get one :(.. . also team pins are REALLY nice but expensive.. we were thinking on getting one with the us/can flag crosing.. so ppl can use that to stick medialion to shirt. . but we ran outa promotional funding. . .. .we are already spending WAYYYY to much .. 75k USD total this year.. its been CRZY!

at the nationals we are giving away first aid kits(pits), medialions, and robot inspection checklists(pits)... and i think buttons if we make them in time..

[Meyerman]

how did you guys like our wrist bands the livestrong like ones that said RoBBE XTREME on them and do you think we should order them again next year?

[DUCKIE]

Since i was working all day to get one at Philly... Yeah... i'd recomend ordering them again nextyear.

I really liked the Lockhead Martin Visor one of the Philly Teams gave me while i was queuing.

[Revolverx7]

Team 358 gave out silly putty, and will once again be giving it out.
We won't have it forever though so if your going to Atlanta come to our stands before its too late.

[SURVIVORfan44]

The coolest thing I ever got was...ready for this? you better be sitting down 'cause this is gonna be big. The Somerville HS team (101 or 102) was handing out...ready?...BOTTLES OF HAND-SANITIZER THAT HAD BELT HOLSTERS ON THEM! Yeah, I know. You're probably thinking, "It's genius, how could someone have thought of something so simple, yet so marvelous??" They were sponsored by Verizon and were walking around with huge bags with frisbees, hacky sacks, buttons, THE HAND SANITZER, and other stuff.
At the Trenton Regional we all walked around flashing our new hand sanitzer holsters. That's right. I bet you wish you had one of these.
Kudos to team 102...or is it 101?

Mike F.
Your next door neighbors, Immaculata High School
Team 1279- cold Fusion Robotics.

OH MY. I MUST MEET THIS TEAM. We can have a hand sanitizer trade or something.

[slickguy2007]

The coolest thing would be a team giving out copies of all the regional matches in full, ones that they have been to of course. Team 108 is awesome because they are doing this for nationals, you rock guys!!!


GO 1403!!!

[mhayon]

We're giving out not only brochures of our team, but general safety brochures.

We actually may be seen giving out more than that, so check out Team 1676 in the Archimedes Division (www.teampioneers.com).

[the_short1]

i LOVED that silly putty ! i got one :D.. i got a ontario power beacon but lost it .. it fell off my neck. . (i was the one with 5 lanylars of buttons around my neck).. gota get that picture for my avatar !

i thought bead necklaces were REALLy good giveaways (with team number sticker on them).. since they are light, afordable, and overall look cool!@

[Smrtman5]

I was a big fan of those shop rags team 85 gave out, and they came in handy too when we took apart our trannys.

[Dillon Compton]

What did people think of 1394's strategy boards (full & half sized), and the commemorative postcards of the same theme that were handed out at nationals? Good idea that should be continued, or do people like buttons & the like more?

Dillon Compton
team 1394

[DarkJedi613]

The thing I liked the most was the laminated fields for use of strategizing. :) A few teams gave them out - I think we got one from 88?

[Dillon Compton]

The thing I liked the most was the laminated fields for use of strategizing. :) A few teams gave them out - I think we got one from 88?


mmkay well you answered my question as I asked it- THanks!

~Dillon Compton
Team 1394

[Jeremy.245]

My team handed out MINI sharpies....we ran out on thursday. we had 200 of them and they were gone except for the 5 i kept hidden till Finals. They were great for anything. We will bring them back next year.

[#1Transgirl1140]

To anyone we gave out the standard button, but to all the teams in the Curie division we gave out rearview mirrors screwed onto a piece of wood that said "quailty is a reflection of you". I was wondering what the curie teams though of them.

[Pin Man]

The thing I liked the most was the laminated fields for use of strategizing. :) A few teams gave them out - I think we got one from 88?
We gave out laminated boards to Galileo Teams and teams at BAE and Chesapeake... We have sooooooooooooooooo many left too...

Personally I liked the team that gave out those awesome tie-dyed head and wrist bands... Who were they? :yikes:

and I liked the team that gave out buttons... Which team was that??? :p

But the coolest thing was probably the silly putty... I love taht stuff and it kept me entertained... haha...

[IronVulture]

Yeah, I have a huge glob of silly putty that could entertain me for days. While this may not be the coolest thing a team could give out, team 1403 gave away pens. Of course, not just any pens, but the best pens I have EVER USED!! First, they were the smoothest gliding ballpoint I've ever used, second, they look cool, and third, they're compact and fit comfortably in even the pockets of tight pants. I declare the 1403 pen to be the king of click pens!! Did anybody else get one and think they were this awesome?

[XtremeEagle04]

To anyone we gave out the standard button, but to all the teams in the Curie division we gave out rearview mirrors screwed onto a piece of wood that said "quailty is a reflection of you". I was wondering what the curie teams though of them.

The Rear-view Mirror on Curie was one of the best things we got this year, it was so cool. I just think about when I had to buy onefor my car and it was like $20! your sponsors must love you guys!

[the_short1]

team 88 gave out those tie die things.. (see my pic if anyone is wondering what were talking about)..

what did teams think about the robot checklist / safety guidelines that we gave out ? did anyone acually use them?? i know a couple rookie teams came up to me and thanked me cuz they said they had no clue of what to do...and it provided a base.. but what about all the veteran teams?

i HAVE to thank team #1 for giving away pens at great lakes.. because it had a clip for shirt pockets.. i put a wirearound that and put on a lanyard , it is my lucky scouting pen/etc,, , ive used it soo many times and its good to know it wont explode in my pocket!! < aha you can see the yellow pen sticking outa the junk around my neck in the pic too :D

[coreyjon]

A few years back, we cnc cut soap molds out of wax with our team number embossed on the top of the soap. I can't remember exactly how many bars of colored soap I made, but it was a lot. I also added a label inside each bag that stated "This is soap, Not food", just because some of us where worried people may try to eat it. Definately got mixed comments bout the soap idea, some people thaught it was great, complaining they never got enough soap at the hotel, others thaught it was an odd idea, but it got our name out, and I thaught it was creative. Right now we are giving out buttons, and brochures. I remember in the past getting a lot of cool things, like the slinky. I forget the team number, but I still have a duck that I adopted, that may have been last year.I have a drawer full of stuff that i've accumulated, lke one team was giving out a small screw driver set, a barrel of monkeys, stuff like that. Ahh the good ol' days.

[abeD]

my old team, 710 was giving out nalgene bottles with their logo and info, here's a pic of one they gave to dave:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=11120&direction=DESC&sort=date&perrow=4&trows=3&quiet=Verbose

[#1Transgirl1140]

The Review Mirror on Curie was one of the best things we got this year, it was so cool. I just think about when I had to buy onefor my car and it was like $20! your sponsors must love you guys!

Yeah, they love us. It also helps that our sponser is Magna Donnelly Electronics and they make the electronic chips for the review mirriors, including the On-Star chips. I'm glad teams liked them.

[ClintDog]

Martian Plushies

[santosh]

I thought our glow sticks were pretty cool.

[#1Transgirl1140]

Martian Plushies

I loved those!! I still have one from last year!

To me the best things teams can give out are the more unusual things(AKA not buttons), and thinks that are really helpful to other teams.

[alphaone]

I really like team 980's pens. I use one everyday at school :)

[Jverdon]

Well i love my Rolls Rocye pen i got from Cyber Blue. I walk up to people and say "ya know, i have a Rolls Royce" then i pull out my pen.

[nobrakes8]

Hmm what about those Timken stress balls, frisbes, and orange jelly beans 1071 was given to hand out at nationals??? (had to get the commercial in as we're on the verge of being the first major Timken backed team and not many people knew we were with Timken)


Unfortunatly we didn't know those stress balls and stuff we're going to go so fast. We only had 2 boxes of stuff, but I have been told it's almost guranteed we'll have 10 times more stuff for next year :-)

[Alan Anderson]

To me the best things teams can give out are the more unusual things(AKA not buttons), and thinks that are really helpful to other teams.
We gave away "battery flags" to anyone who would take them. We thought they would be very helpful to other teams. In retrospect we probably should have had a poster or instruction sheets or something explaining clearly what they were and how to use them.

"What they were" is a small yellow flat bit of plastic that fits into a standard battery connector.

"How to use them" is easy: fit them on a freshly-charged battery's connector to indicate that the battery is charged. In order to plug the battery into a robot, you'll have to remove the flag, of course.

This works very well to keep from being confused about which batteries are charged and which are used. You can't forget to pull the flag off a battery when you use it.

[alphaone]

Also can't forget 358's silly putty! :cool:

[the_short1]

yes! i love that necklace glow stick with like 5 colors. i dunno which team it was that gave it . . i also had two of the bracelet orange ones... it was awsome !

[Freddy Schurr]

The best thing that I recieve this year was a mini tetra key chain, its was so cool but then it broke 3 weeks later.Shucks

[xzvrw2]

Shirts all the way baby!!!!!!!!!


Stevie

[colin340]

73's led pins nice but airport x-ray guy gave me a hard time. I was not think went I put it in my backpack

[BigHeavenlyEyes]

i think that one team in atlanta was giving out tetra-earrings. Those were rreally cool! Buttons are good too, i saw many peopl;e wearing buttons all over their shirts. But make sure that you have enough for all four days. We ran out on the second day! :p

[fancy013]

Yay!!! hehehe I knew hey candies! we won!! hehe lol we got alot. I think candy cause if you give out candy. Then well, people love candy. if they see one of their teams members getting candies from other team. they be like: " hey where did you get that candy?" they'll say : "oh this one team called __?__!" yeap hehehe really easy. Just have to know what people like best! But i like buttons too though! *i hope you understand what i mean. hehe

[Nica F.]

lol maybe you should find a clicker with your mascot on it.. or maybe you guys should give out PANDAS. pandas are awesome

[ChrisCook]

Team 670 gave out Wrench sets to all of the team leaders and smaller sets to the people who can by our pit.

team 670 :ahh:

[craigcd]

This is a poll for us to see what other people want to get from us. Post other things here and what your team will do.

Team 1421 at the Lone Star regionals gave out ring binders with "Team Chaos" scouting reports to every team that competed at the regional.(40 total) Each binder had a color picture of every one of the teams robots above a scoring form. A very lot of work and very helpful.

[LightWaves1636]

Our team gave out Dog tags at the Colorado Regionals, they were a complete hit. We decided dog tags this yar cause we got a new laser and I suggested let's make key chains cause I was thing off lasering out plastic but then our teacher got the idea of dog tags since our mascot is the bulldog.

[Mr. Freeman]

Wow, this thread is like almost an entire year old.

Anyway, I missed out on those dog tags. I was going to get a pair but then I think I had to run out with either a battery or a laptop to our robot in the queing line; thus making me forget about anything else.

Our team gave out thunderstick things with the top shaped like a cougar paw (a cougar being the school mascot).

If you were at the colorado regionals there's no way you could have missed these, everyone hitting everyone else with them. (In hindsight, perhaps not such a bright idea).

I think that a carabiner is a really cool team giveaway. I got 3 from ACHS robotics last year but couldn't find whoever was handing them out this year.

[Michelle Celio]

Wow, this thread is like almost an entire year old.



http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45397

is a thread from this year

[Gabe]

The coolest things for me are team and sponsor stickers. I am trying to cover my drill case with every robtics related sticker I can get my hands on.
Our team gives out safety shields (side guards to make regular glasses compliant with FIRST rules) so that people don't have to double up their glasses by also wearing goggles. We run out of them really fast, because once we hand out a pair, the word gets around very fast.
(Hey, don't be stealing our handout ideas!) :p

[Squirt_47]

Tshirts are always cool to get from other teams.But there is a downside to giveing away your team shirt if that person whom they gave it to acts out in any obscene way i tcould reflect back on that team even though they are not apart of that team.

[GlitterRave113]

Well, I'm a girl, so I like jewelry...not necessarily "girly" stuff. For example, at the NJ Regionals I got a dog tag and at thye Philly Regionals I got one of those funky rubber bracelets from Dawgma. :D

[AV_guy007]

in past years we (177) have given out customized sharpies. i think that is really cool idea :D

[The_Goodie]

Go Team 610 Livestrong-esque Silicone Bracelets!

[Freddy Schurr]

I actually like videos of Teams and what they are doing in FIRST!

[MFennig8]

Well my team, 247, gives out bears each year and it seems to be a big hit for all our regionals.

[ICE MAN]

I am not sure if team 34 let people borrow or actually gave them some of their legendary light up curcit boards that display there logo the rockets. They are so cool and if I got one I would go beserk! I hope that will start giving them out because they are really cool.

[VEN]

I think the coolest thing i got is the 781 metal pin, i wear it on the end of my belt now, i replaced my quicksilver logo with it :D :p

[joshsmithers]

the absolute best:
free hugs-one size fits all

[Steve S.]

Just an FYI:

Handing out candy or bevarages or other edible foods is against the rules this year......

(if this was already mentioned, oops, i didnt feel like reading every post.)

[dez250]

Wow, this thread is like almost an entire year old.

Try like 4+ ;)

[kborer22]

Northeastern university College of Engineering is going to be giving out mini shapries with "northeastern university college of engineering printed on them", i have a few they are pretty sweet and perfect for any robotics comp!

coolest give away i hvae ever been part of

[DBiehl]

hacky sacks

[YonZ]

1740 gave little screwdriver sets
195 had little tool keychains
i got a little robot made of nuts and bolts and the like last yr at nats
and at nats last yr some team was giving out handmade blue and red tetra earrings that looked very professional, and though im not a girl-- I got my sister a pair (shes also on the team, and i handed them to her in the pits)

[Qbranch]

Hands down, shop rags.

I got one from.... well can't remember which team. They were in the back corner of the pit area at the Boilermaker regional. The shop rags were stamped with their team name and logo.

-Q

[Richard Wallace]

Hands down, shop rags.

I got one from.... well can't remember which team. They were in the back corner of the pit area at the Boilermaker regional. The shop rags were stamped with their team name and logo.

-QSecond that. I got a nice shop rag from 85 a couple seasons back -- good logo on it, and it has been useful.

[ahirsch2589]

hmm.. buttons are classic and always nice. A team gave out a band-aid despenser at atlanta this year, i thought that was pretty awesome. I think getting a scouting cd would be awesome to get, our soap team passes them out. Other then that, i think practical things you could use, are always the best things to get, like rags, or pens.

[Zyik]

We gave out Buttons/Stickers/flyers.

[woofingddog]

We gave out buttons that were like no other. We got so many awesome comments from everyone. Too bad we only had them for the Nationals.

My favorite has to be the maze pen. Two balls in a maze in a pen!
I spent countless hours staring at it looking for the best way out in class.

[pathew100]

Got a sweet deck of cards from the Thunderchickens, complete with their logo on the cards. Definitely the best handout.

[Masterfork]

THE COCONUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUHHHHHHHHH jeese come on from the knights who said NE I think advertise their just becuase of those at every event we go to even if they are not their

[Freddy Schurr]

Did anyone like our Mini Frisbees we handed out?

[freshman777]

i think the best thing i got from nats. in atlanta was the swords. there were soo... fun. me and my comrads were fighting eachother wen we went in the front for lunch. altho food is a good idea. :yikes: :]

[santosh]

The 1746 shirts were pretty cool. I lliked the pins with the mini tools on them and the swords were pretty awesome.

[HyPhire111]

Chumms definitly chumms :cool: gotta keep ur safty glasses :cool:

[amos229]

frisbees are pretty sweet, especially when a team gives them out every year so u build a color coded archive.

[Nica F.]

i dont know if these were given away but i saw some girls walking around with them on , there were FIRST dangly earrings. i thought they were at the gift shop or something but they werent.

[Jon Jack]

How about 'Got FIRST?' t-shirts? We were giving those out on Firday and Saturday in Archimedes.

[Pavan Dave]

On the list i have to say DVD. but personaly I think the lanyards that 16 had (only our flight got one) were the coolest because those they can use to hold their Nasa badges for years on end even when they profesionally work somewhere..

also i think 45's kwel saftey gogles owned all :) i loved them and wish they could pm me with where they got them.. (Please say HomeDepot + ShrinkWrap Lol)

Pavan

[thatphotochick]

has anybody mentioned MOE's miracle towel? actually they normally don't give those out, but it's soooo cool. i love when teams give away beads...though most to all of mine that i got in atlanta were given to a member dancing. i've gotten a whistle at pittsburgh..that was cool and was useful for saving my voice. a team gave me a wristband..like the one for the wrap party in atlanta..that was cool.

[Fuzzy]

i liked team 93's stress apples

[IrishPirate]

I think the best thing my team could give out is scouting data. We have a great scouting system and are looking at going public next year. Letting teams know that you are prepared going into a match doesnt just let them know who you are, but showes them what you can bring to an alliance

[Danielle H]

I was thinking about taking Tulip paint to some unworn bandanas and pass them out. Or just give out the bandanas themselves. Help control some sweating in the pits. (No pun intended...)

[Chrispy393]

Uhm... well...when in utter despair I made the joke about handing out condoms. Not that any team would ever do that (if any of you do...please give credit to Chrispy for the idea!) but could FIRST really say "Safe Sex isn't allowed." Then again I also made the joke about putting it in our chairman's award submission as 'stopping the new world epidemic...'

[!DOM!]

Definitely anything novelty to play with that has the team name that stuff is the best.

[Robyn Needel]

i dont know if these were given away but i saw some girls walking around with them on , there were FIRST dangly earrings. i thought they were at the gift shop or something but they werent.


I got a pair of FIRST earrings made from FIMO clay at the Chesapeake Regional...one of the mentors from 1449 made them, I believe, and they are awesome. A mentor for Robot Chicks Union (thanks Pat :) ) made bracelets which we handed out at our meeting. I think jewelry that is wearable every day, not just appropriate at FIRST events, is a great idea.

[chi yuki]

The coolist thing a team can give out is key chains:D . After competitions the best thing to do is load up your backpack with other teams keychains. I haven't been to a competition yet(I'm going to two in march), but last year all my friends came back after a trip with all kinds of stuff on their backpacks. I also want a slinky

[AlCapowned]

I really like it when teams give out scented oils, bubble bath, and moisturizing lotion.

[smurfgirl]

I got a pen with a built-in highlighter from one team... that was my favorite, because it was really useful. I could highlight match times and take notes about alliance partners/opposing alliances at the same time!

[Otaku]

I'm a huge fan of Stickers. I had a team 830 sticker on my laptop for the longest time (before I replaced it with a "WWGFD?" sticker).

[,4lex S.]

Once I got a Cucumber... :yikes:

[Techno-Turkey]

I really like the rubber bracelets because people will wear those almost all year if they look cool (someone else probably suggested this but i don't feel like reading all the pages):o .

Another thing i just thought of is shoes laces in your colors (like one blue and one green) and have your team name on it, now that would be awesome.

[onewaystreet]

What about free injuries?

Or is that just a given with the job?

[waialua359]

We plan on giving out shell leis, macadamia nut chocolates, and pineapples again this year at all our events except our own Hawaii regional.

Chesapeake, VCU, and championships in our division!:D

Alooooohaaaaa!

[MiniNerd24]

Hey they sound awesome (what about a candy button?:rolleyes: ;) )

[byrnedfish]

Teams going to Finger Lakes Regional and Buckeye Regional should be on the lookout for 2228's Robotic pens again. They are pretty sweet:

http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/froggie_robotic_pen.jpg

[basicxman]

Hey they sound awesome (what about a candy button?:rolleyes: ;) )

i think thats the best idea ive ever had!!!!

how about small robots like HexBugs, you'd have to have a pretty decent amount of $$$$$$

fun to assemble though!!!

[Protronie]

What about food? I rember some of the temas from Hawaii passed out pineapples last year. We're thinking about giving everyone bananas! ;)

How about giving out bottle water....i got so thirsty last year/////aggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh



LOLZ

Great idea but... isn't there a rule against giving out/selling, or bringing in food from outside vendors?

[Cooley744]

If a couple people on your team were in a band...a CD would be really cool. Great publicity for them as well.

[BQuennell]

Last year I got a foam cell phone at nationals, that was a fun little toy I still goof around with.

[Urban Hawk]

The coolest thing a team could give out was a button with a bunch of lights on it so that by pressing a button it would say different things.

[losedemnoodles]

One time I got a yoyo...COOLEST toy ever...my whole team was playing with the yoyo that whole day!! So, yeah, I go for yoyosss!! they;re the besttttttttt

[Ty Tremblay]

MONEYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!111!!!!1!!!!1!@

[Cooley744]

hmmmm... really cool sunglasses would be sick.

[elvin23]

:yikes:

[Sam Fisher]

One time I got a yoyo...COOLEST toy ever...my whole team was playing with the yoyo that whole day!! So, yeah, I go for yoyosss!! they;re the besttttttttt

Our team this year is considering passing out yo-yos. They come in the standard circle shape but also a triangle and square. FIRST shapes!!. I am sick nasty with a yo-yo.

The best thing I have ever seen handed out where plastic veiner calipers at the Finger Lakes regionals. don't know from who. Also anything with blinking lights is popular. SO SHINY!!!

[AlCapowned]

I also like it when teams give out acne wash, shampoo, and pocket protectors.

[4throck]

Come on guys, what does FIRST emphasize more than safety? And shouldn't that apply to all of your life's endeavors, and not just FIRST?

With that in mind, what could be cooler than printing your team's logo on latex prophylactic devices and handing them out at competitions?

[Blue_Mist]

The most awesome thing that our team has ever given away were some little pens that you have to click out (fold out) to open and use. The problem was they are expensive (a bit over a dollar each) and the following quotes as people snapped themselves opening the pens:D:

Student 1: Ow!
Student 2: What? Ow! Oh...
Student 3: Huh? Ow! Ah...
Student 4: Ow!
...And so forth.

They were so much fun, though, and we used them for scouting purposes.

[Bluefire66]

don't know if someone posted this already but our mini sticks we gave out last year were pretty popular

[wendymom]

A couple of years ago the ThunderChickens handed out tattoos. I still have one or two.

[1086wulf]

Teams should totally give out safety glasses with their logo on it. Hate my team's glasses and I would wear anything even if it had someone elses logo on it. Or you could just make some for your team.

[ZakuAce]

Best thing to give out...

thats easy...

HUGS!!!

:D

Now to be serious...buttons are AWESOME. I stuck them all over my backpack after the season was over. It was pretty cool :)

[MiniNerd24]

Best thing to give out...

thats easy...

HUGS!!!

:D

Now to be serious...buttons are AWESOME. I stuck them all over my backpack after the season was over. It was pretty cool :)

Hah! I did the same thing. This year I'm going for a whole shirt. (I just need 96 buttons!)

[Devin_P]

MOney would be the best thing u could give out lol

[artdutra04]

Weighted companion cubes.

[The_Laughing_ManMII]

the Rubix cube key chains we gave out last year were a hit, we ran out in five min!

[Scott Carpman]

USB flashdrive keychains
(Thank you 2016!)

[The_Laughing_ManMII]

USB flashdrive keychains
(Thank you 2016!)

that would be awsome!

[Joe Matt]

OH MY GOD IT'S...
http://garbett.org/files/threadwouldntdie.jpg

[shadow1083]

What about food? I rember some of the temas from Hawaii passed out pineapples last year. We're thinking about giving everyone bananas! ;)
i thought we were not allowed to pass out food.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Autonomous dongles.

[MiniNerd24]

Now if you were a little richer you could give away mini models of your robot that drive around and/or herd little soccer balls. Now that would be cool!:yikes:

[Zultraranger]

i'll give a hug?

-anton
um... no thanks.

[animemonkey84]

Our team, 2024, gave out hand painted kukui nuts at the Silicon Valley Regional. I thought they looked really cool. Stringing and writing 2024 on all 150 of them was pretty tedious though. I'm not sure if we are doing it for nationals cause I really dont feel like making over 500 in two weeks. But if a lot of you guys want them I'll try to get started.

[basicxman]

PWM Cables, what team doesn't need those!? you can even print your team name/number on the pwm cable wires

[Synergy1848]

spoons anyone? thats what we give out.

[ajisjesus]

i'll give a hug?

-anton

AAHHHHH!!!!!!

i was gonna say that

[AdamC]

There should be an "other" category. We're giving out hand-puppets :)

[daf]

Uhm... well...when in utter despair I made the joke about handing out condoms. Not that any team would ever do that (if any of you do...please give credit to Chrispy for the idea!) but could FIRST really say "Safe Sex isn't allowed." Then again I also made the joke about putting it in our chairman's award submission as 'stopping the new world epidemic...'


O man lol, I never thought Id actually run into anything that's funny on this site. But this is great haha. Safety FIRST lol without a doubt

But in all seriousness....Ice cream and bubbles. If any team gave out ice cream AND bubbles...I don't even know what to say that I would do for them, yea thats how sweet it is.

[Erich & Posse]

Personal favorite is the seizure inducing blinking lights oo aa :yikes:

[waialua359]

Who gave the 1gig usb flash drives at NJ in 07? I usually dont pay attention as an adult mentor to little gadgets, but when I saw that, I had to move quickly in line!
NJ, anyone?? :D

[ajisjesus]

Who gave the 1gig usb flash drives at NJ in 07? I usually dont pay attention as an adult mentor to little gadgets, but when I saw that, I had to move quickly in line!
NJ, anyone?? :D

ARE YOU SERIOUS!??!?!
i must admit that is pretty niffty youd get big points in my book for something like that

[Blue_Mist]

MOney would be the best thing u could give out lol

Actually, Team 100 (I only saw them at SVR this year) printed Robotics versions of a 100-dollar bill, with "In Dean We Trust" and the signature of their team captain. They also had a picture of their robot the BallFrog in the place where normally Ben Franklin would sit. It was pretty awesome. :cool:

[macpanes]

how bout keychain flashlights?

[laultima]

PWM Cables, what team doesn't need those!? you can even print your team name/number on the pwm cable wires

Any team who hands out PWMs would become my absolute hero. It seems that ours break every time we as much as look at them.

[AllieLallah15]

Okay so, this year, my team had three main ideas:

1) laser pointers. Probably not allowed, but c'mon...
2) swag bags. I heard at least twenty people at both regionals saying, "Hey, can you guys go find like a bag or something to put all this stuff in?" BOOM. Instant solution. Swag Bag.
3) Bounceback balls. We eventually decided on these. It was awesome.

Personal favorite is the seizure inducing blinking lights oo aa :yikes:

I did absolutely LOVE Team Oriole Assault's orange blinky lights. Oh man.

[Kevin Sevcik]

57 got some multi-color flashing bouncy balls from KBR this year. We had to start rationing them at Lone Star due to the popularity. I only hope we have enough to give out at Champs...