Most Unlikely Places You've Found FRC People
 

I have a question for you all. What has been the most unlikely place you've found a current or previous FRC student or mentor?

I found another student once at a Cross Country meet because she was wearing a team shirt. I must say, I was surprised. I should start wearing my team shirt around more often.

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I do volunteer work for a museum in southern NJ, and I was at an event one day while my Dad was at said museum doing a social of sorts. Long story short, he ended up talking with the mentor of another team that 1257 went up against at that event.

At a fast food restaurant because I had a 971 shirt on.

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A few years ago, my brother was traveling to a Boy Scouts camp (Northern Tier) in Michigan. At the airport there, he met somebody who apparently knew who I was from CD and told him that I made cool swerve drives.

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Men's clothing store in Manhattan.
Selling me pants and shirts.

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At least where I'm from, Boy Scouts is full of FIRST'ers. One year when I was working camp staff, we had a multi-team demonstration for the kids taking the Robotics Merit Badge. We had robots from 6 different teams there. Also for one year, all 5 of our OA Lodge Officers were on FRC teams.

Official partnership between BSA and FIRST? Doubt itever happening, but one can dream.

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On a plane ride from New York. She was sitting next to me when I pulled out my laptop, and my lock screen was a picture of our bot. She was like "HEY THAT'S FRC....WAIT ARE YOU FRC?" :D It was definitely one of the more exciting 5 hour plane rides I've been on :P.

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On my family vacation...4? 5? years ago, I ran into two FIRSTers while at the Grand Canyon. Found out they belonged to a team from NYC, not to far away from myself. It certainly helps to recognize FIRSTers when wearing robotics shirts.

Well...

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On the train!

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True. If I remember correctly, VEX was involved in the making of the curriculum. I do wish there was something more of an official, long-term partnership. I've had to call in favors from people I knew from Scouts for FRC related things before. The target audience and a lot of the sponsors are the same between the two programs.

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I haven't met any FRC people around unlikely places, but around my college campus I tend to run into a few here and there unexpectedly. Which sometimes surprises me because my university doesn't have that many FIRST alumni, even on the intercollegiate robotics team on campus there are only a few.

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Last June we were on vacation in Turks and Caicos. My daughter had her team backpack sitting by her at the pool. A Girl from team 4472 and her mother stopped by to talk robotics for awhile.

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Van Halen concert in 2009!

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I've met 3 people in the UMD Marching Band that have been in FRC.

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Hanley falls, MN steam tractor show