Its probably illegal if you make bad food too.

alas
 

robotic posioning

engraved razor blades.

what about the leopards?
 

for the past 4 years team 57 has put a LOT of money and effort into our Two favorite giveaways : stuffed leopards and leopard tails!!! they always seem to be popular, but nowhere on this thread have they been mentioned! am i wrong about this? have our handouts just gotten thrown away and forgotten? i would really like to know because if people dont like them then we can spend our money on other things. PLEASE give us some feedback. oh yeah and i personally like the lego men.

A frisbee or a football... they're is always fun...

also
 

techno katz ....ove their mini-fans

tattoos
 

i personally like the tattoos the best, at least giving them a way. it is a good chance to get to meet new people...especially the guys:D

uh
 

how does that work guys liek tattoos?

my team is thinking about handing out fortune cookies..last year i was team 186 we handed out disney pins did everyone like those..i didn't know they were collectable..i liked the team that handed out this red things you could yell in to make your voice louder.. that was so cool..and the team that handed out rocks was great..:D :p ;) loved them all, this was all at nationals

We have a more orignal idea than fortune cookies, which one team has done before that I know of.

Idea
 

I have an idea, but I'm not gonna tell....be creative, think out of the box, y'all.

Hows about stress balls??
 

I remember 1 year at Hartford my team, team 157 passed out stress balls with a sponsor logo on it. it was cool cuz when they called are name we all stood up and threw them behind us.

Pins that flash, aka blinky pins, everyone loved them in 1998 and 1999.

Well, I've gotten lots of cool handouts!

Buckeye 2002:

The Who? Gave out plastic "you put it together" models of CNC's

Some team gave out tomato shaped stress squishes, those were awesome

and 469 gave out little bannana necklaces, but when detached from the string, they posed a small choking hazard, but we won't get into that

we always gave out these:

ooo
 

stuffed animals! nice nice... im tryign get a hold of vibrating bulls

Re: uh
 

In the past we have had a tattoo booth in our pit...so you get the guys to come over and you put tattoos on them.

How about 'trading' or 'donating' (since teams can't pedel thier good this year) the following:

Sweatbands (for the $@#$@#$@#$@# Texas sun)
Cowboy hats
Lexan waterbottles
Segways! (you'll be my favourate team for sure!)
Playing cards with team number and/or logo and/or robot on back
Little 'tray within tray' CDs with all your teams' secrets
Haribo gummy bears (superior to all, just that the have to be imported from Germany first)
Music CDs (with stuff played at the competitions)
Visors
Scaled models of your robots (with figurines of your drivers and human players! a complete 'Action Set' (collect all 288 to win))
On that note, team baseball cards with robto and such (good for Trading with other team's cards. You can even have then catagorized as 'Rookies', 'Most Valuble Alliance', 'Stackers', 'kings of the Hill' and so on)
CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs and kisses (choclate ones can substitute)
Glowsticks and those flashing Neon-Helium LEDs (for the social/rave on Saturday)

I do too.:) I want to give out little teeny tiny robots to each team next year.
:edit:
Ooo yeah did I forget to mention that they will move.

bags- we got bags!!
 

The NJ Regional was a bagstravaganza. Each of the five BMS sponsored teams had a different canvas tote bag. If you went around the pits you could collect a whole set!!!

They are great for carrying around all of those other souveneirs you pick up at the competition- or carrying home that trophy...


See team 25 for your bag in the Curie pits this week. We REALLY want to give away some of these things!!!

WC

I looked at the map of the area, and calculated that it'll be at leats 600 meters (700 yards) from the closest field to the entrance of the Astrodome, so wouldn't it be nice if one of the teams gave out SMART cars? They get the drivers and the robot quickly from the pits to the fields and it's small enough to park in the pits amongs your robot and tools.

In case anyone is curious, below is the map of the area. Six Flags is right in from of the Astrodome on the other sode of highway 610 between kirby and Fannin (note the pedestrian bridge across the highways).

Simple, Money, the people will love you for it.
LoL. Seriously.

-Stress Balls are very cool.
-Frisbees too.
-I would also like to see large blow up weapons with the logo's printed. (We WOULD have had large swords (4 feet!) but some one forgot to order them. I wont say who.)
-Playing Cards with Logo on back is a great idea.
-Battle type card game with pictures of the last year(s) robots for the kids. The game would probably be similar to LOTR or Magic The Gathering. 1 starter deck : Free. Memories and somthing to do on the bus ride home : Priceless.
-CD Roms are a great idea.
-Also if many many/all regionals would archive matches. Then a DVD of the competition up to Nationals would be great.
-Silly Puddy 'nuff said. The logo on the egg of corse. :D
-Bumper Stickers with familliar FIRST stuff. "For Instpiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." And other cool stuff.
-T-SHIRTS! Free T-Shirts rule! It gives people something to wear to school on the first day back from competition.
-Kissing Booth! Get your cutest and hottest members and have them hand out Kisses (Chocolate of corse) to people who come up.
-REALLY Big Smiley Face Beach Balls with logo on back. w00t
-CAMERAS Like the FIRST cameras given to the Refs and VIPs at some of the Regionals this year. FIRST logo and Your Team Logo.
-Batteries! You know how many CD players are brought to each trip.
-Bottled Water with FIRST/Your logo. (like last year at Nats. ;))
-And lastly FOOD! Every one LOVES Food. Fruit, Candy what ever. Food is the best.

Re: bags- we got bags!!
 

YES, those canvas tote bags were very useful. I ready thing it's a great item. ALL the judges like them too.

But... I got a COCONUT from team 25 at the J&J.
The note was very, very cute. Nice idea!
(we still do not know what to do with it!)

:D

hehe
 

glowsticks

we were thinkin glowsticks, but it took too long to order

we ran out of buttons... its all uta's fault :p ;)

maybe next year we could get bolts with our logo on them... we gave away alot of bolts anyway ;)

hmm
 

custom imprinted bolts? where are you going to write the text? haha stickers aroudn the tread doesn't last long... haha it will kinda be like kehillah ...mmmm mentee similarity! haha:p

like, on the head of the bolt, have the "hrt" logo engraved into it... maybe we could get vijay to do it with the dremel :D

mmm
 

it woudl be very funny if people actually use it! haha
should people use it or no?
if use... then the souvenoir is gone...
if not... its kinda heavy having a bolt

that would actually be a cool way to drive a bolt in

instead of having phillips or flathead, or (god forbid...) hex... you have 3 little bracket-shaped holes that you stick a bracket-shaped head into. hard to strip, and stylish too ;)

alas
 

dude.... who woudl be bored enough to examine bolts on a robot, unless you make a monstrous amoutn of it... maybe you can make it to a sort of puzzle... arranged in a certain way... i dont know. i think you have to give away scredrivers... or hammers haha:p

how about giving away an engineer

well
 

that woudl take a while

a) we dont have allot
b) if we want to have allot it woudl take yrs to "make" one
c)it is just afreaky thought

that would be funny though... I'm willing to trade a button for someones engineer...

yep yep
 

who doesnt? i am willgin to give 10000000 buttons for a GOOD engineer! wheeeeeeee!

gah... good engineers are hard to find... :(

you bet
 

well ..... we coudl good engineers out of ourselves.


:p

some one should give away random toolsin the pits for a promotion not hammers like cncs and milling machines and lathes

Lets see.....we gave out a few boomerangs...yes boomerangs. we didn't have a lot but some people got them. we also gave out buttons and fliers and some delphi blinker lights.

all i have to say is: is it possible to get button elbow?

how about giving out aluminum plates (small ones for keychains) with the team logo or a picture of the robot CNCed onto it? Just get one person to do the program, and someone else who is REALLY bored to monitor it. :p

I would like to build an engineer to work on our robot... That would be funny...

you what woudl be funnier?
 

you can make" make -an engineer kits" and hand them out

Nice idea

im wonderign now
 

are they going to be human? or robotic? human kits can have some slight difficulties.... as for robotic engineers... of course we all coudl crank up those right? a little redundant

Gotta love those robotic Engineers...
 

I want one! Hehe. I'm telling you people give out free gasoline! Just like fill up water bottles and pass it out! lol. But I really do want to see a robotic engineer. I think they would listen better then some human engineers some times... Some times.

yeah
 

thats liek a free mechanic.... some engineers actually have good critiques.... are you going omit them too? haha

Re: yeah
 

254 "gave out" free mechanics ;)

we gave out a few engineers, some pit crew people, and a programmer

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

I think one of the coolest things for teams to hand out is tools. My team handed out pop-rivit guns at the
UTC Reginal. When a team gives tools away it shows that they are being good sports:)

haha
 

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.

Re: haha
 

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

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

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. :)

Re: Re: haha
 

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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[/color]

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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.

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

Hi,

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

Geo.

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

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

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

Bobbleheads of Dean and Woodie !!!!!!

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

Hugs!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 $$...%^&*()@#$

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

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!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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?

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

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. :)

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

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.

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

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

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

I know one team who went to NYC regional this year that gave out candy - pink candy. :D

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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:

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.
;)

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

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

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.)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

i second that motion

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

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)

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

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

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

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.