Tim Rocks!!

I dont know him real great but he is one of the nice guys in FIRST and i know he has done ALOT for the technokats, and been with them since the beginning.

Well, all I can say is that when I get out of High School (only two years left) FIRST will never be able to get rid of me. Already we are planning our three excused absences around volunteering at regionals. My friends and I were joking at nationals, about how they are going to give me the Founder's Award by my 80 th birthday.

Okay, so I'm obsessed...

I don't think that's an issue...

I think its a benefit!

and I also think that I'll be around for a long time... I can't WAIT until I start my own team!

Woohoo!!! Looks like another job well done by FIRST and its team!!! Welcome to the club! I am supposed to be a 3rd year in college, and I am doing FIRST stuff more than ever!!!

Give the team starting a try. If not, FIRST will always be here, waiting for you to volunteer :P. I've had more fun running the scoring table than I've had in past years.

Or, you are put your effort in more than just one team. Convince the teams over there to start their own Region Robotics Forums, teach workshops to all the teams needing them, host off season competitions and pre-ship events, run the regional kickoff! There are many possibility out there waiting for you right now.

Re: Ultimate FIRST-a-holic!
 

I totally agree... TR has been the backbone of this team since the beginning of FIRST, literarly ;) He's a great man and leader

I think Tim Railey reached FIRST-a-holic status long ago. He was the very first FIRST-a-holic in Indiana, I believe.

Has anyone really started a group called FIRST-a-holics Anonymous? If they have, could you send me their way? I'd love to get a few people into that!

FIRSTaholic forum
 

that would be sweet to have a FIRSTaholic forum that only the 'deemed' FIRSTaholics could speak in

the way it would work is: somebody could put up a nomination and write about them, others could write about them too... and then there would be a vote! (a poll that's put up for a week or so)

And because we all seem to be such nice ppl... probably anyone that's nominated would get voted in (to a certain extent, you can't nominate yourself)

but of course, because people and situations sometimes change... we must be able to vote them out

but either way... it'll be cool to have someting official! And it would be easier to narrow down everyone to the people who are the TRUE FIRSTaholics!

just an idea...


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Re: FIRSTaholic forum
 

Just out of curiosity, how would you define "TRUE FIRSTaholics"?

Do you think people would be offended and be angry if the poll is against them, or if they are voted out?

Just pure curiosity on my side. Doesn't mean to be critical about an idea or anything. I would love to hear what you think about these questions.

there used to be a first a holics website run by lora knepper but that has been gone for a while now, she and someone else got together and made buttons for nationals a few years ago.

Re: Re: FIRSTaholic forum
 

Hrmn. May have to set up some guidelines here, eh? :)

I think people may be offended if you go about it all the wrong ways... such as an attitude that you are more involved with FIRST if you are an -a-holic. If anything, though, I think it'll get more people even more involved (if that's humanly possible, sometimes!)

What would be a good way to set up a 'club' of sorts for this? Guidelines? etc?

Basically... if somebody puts up a name and supports their claim, I think we'd all be willing to vote them in. However if their claim is weak, we could offer advice as to what they could do to strengthen their appeal and offer to vote later on. I don't think people would take it too personally... and it would be incentive for more people to stretch their skills and attempt to give FIRST everything they have!

If that person is inactive for a while... perhaps they would be electronically kicked out after a few months of non-participation. Of which if they wanted re-entry, they'd have to be nominated again.

But then again, similar to the 'forgotten FIRSTaholics thread,' out of respect for past efforts... once your voted in you'd stay in for life. (I think I like this idea better because then the FIRSTaholics wouldn't be required to be Chief Delphi junkies.)

Little things we could do as incentive for being in this 'club' are awards, recognitions, gather knowledge and ask advice from what may be the most knowledgable section of FIRST, arrange trips... anything we can think of basically!

any more thoughts?


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I would say that I am a FIRST-a-holic...but I dont know if you people see me as that...meh

sure, mel is a FIRST-o-Holic

As far as having a club for FIRST-a-holic goes, I don't think many nominees won't get voted in. It is pretty hard to set up guild lines, when FIRST-a-holics really means people who dedicated their effort in their participation in this competition, not people who do this because they are told to, which is just about anyone out there.

In the moment I am still thinking through the idea of a club for College FIRST-a-holics, because that has the requirement that you are done with high school, and still continue to do FIRST not because you have a team in your high school, but because you want to do it so badly that you are willing to join a different team, start your own team, or volunteer at competitions. So, that give the club a nice parameter, as well as a pretty good group of potential members.

So, in your case, if you are open to all FIRST-a-holics, as far as having a forum goes, it just seems like it will be the same as Chief Delphi, only takes a little longer to get in. Especially when new rookie members want to be part of it, and no one else know them. All they have to do is support their case a with some claims, and most people are likely to vote them in.

As far as having a club goes, seems like a good idea! As long as you can do something fun with it!

Over all, I just don't know what kind of guide line you can set up to get the group of people you want. There are many different kind of people in the world, and it is very hard to use a set of guide lines that fit them all in, unless they are very open-ended.

I agree with the idea of only letting 'non-high school' or only college particpants into the FIRSTaholics club. (sorry guys! but in a few years you all can join too... just prove you're addicted!)

True, most college participants who started becoming addicted in high school put forth much more effort and inconvenience to continue with FIRST in college. That fact alone shows how dedicated they are. I may set that as the only guideline.

The idea has gone through me that instead of having an open poll, if the person is nominated by 3 or 5 different people or so, that's when they are in! This is along the lines that the true FIRSTaholics would have also networked well and have freinds to support their claim.

A way we could do this is when you click on somebody's profile, there would be a button that you'd click if you wish to nominate them to be a FIRSTaholic. You must also write someting about them. There will also be a link in the profile to click on to view other people's write-ups and claims about that person.

Howabout electronically, we'd be able to make it college student or above just by either using the person's description, or their 18th birthday as for when they could be nominated. That way it would be sorted automatically.

still thinking...


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