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Funny this thread resurfaces now...I just got back from my haircut, and I saw a FIRST parent there. I was wearing my shirt, and i sat down and someone told me that his son and daughter had both been on the team. Coincidence that this thread comes up at the same time as this event...or conspiracy :D ?

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I was getting on a roller coaster once at Six Flags over Georgia this past summer. I wore my team shirt that day for no apparant reason... but all of a sudden I heard this girl who was still in line scream "Metal In Motion!, I know you guys!"... :ahh: turns out she was from team 1002, the CircuitRunners. I thought that was cool.

What is it with Marching Band and robot dorks? I notice this becoming a common trend... (I'm a band geek too :D )

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While it might not be in the same spirit as the rest of the thread, I found out that my cousin was on his HS team in Fort Wayne (1022). I thought it was neat that we had both settled upon this independently.

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Ahaha, I have noticed that myself! There is a girl in my marching band who is an alum of 87! The only reason I found out was because she wore her team shirt one of the days of rehearsal. Turned out, she knew who I was already XD

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I was at a church youth camp (Greensburg), about an hour away from home (Indianapolis), and had to run to a local grocery store for some evening snacks. I had my 234 t-shirt on, and ran into a girl from team 1020 (Muncie)who lived in the area and was there shopping.

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I am training for a triathlon to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's "Team-in-Training" and met a former mentor from a Colorado team who is also doing the same tri.

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I'm not too sure if this counts, but I met Neha Batra of 1345 three years ago at a summer camp at Northwestern University, before either of us were involved in FIRST, and we got started talking again just recently via the forums

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Hey! a Huron guy! I'm from pioneer HS. Maybe I saw you in Ypsi.

neways, I've met a couple people who sponsor a team in Texas (they didn't know the team name nor number) at my barber shop (Arm and Anvil). It was pretty cool to meet someone involved with FIRST.

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I was at one of my regular local band concerts and there was a band from Michigan, One for the books, performing that night. Well I was stuck working Merch table for my friends' band and our stuff was next to One for the Books (OFTB). Well eventually they saw my "Thunderchickens" pin and were like, "are you in robotics?" and I was like, Yeah...

Turns out they were in robotics in high school too! Crazy...

Here we are:

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I met Moshin from 772 while playing Yahoo Euchre, the 2 nights before champs.

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This was quite a while ago, but I just remembered it for some reason.

I was in New York City at the same time as the NYC Regional (I feel horrible that I couldn't go!) visiting my aunt and uncle. After visiting their new apartment (they had ust bought a new one) we went to see the art show "Ashes and Snow" at the Nomadic Museam. As we were waiting in line to get in, all of a sudden I heard a bunch of people behind me talking about the regional. I turned around and told them that I was also a FIRSTer. I then asked them what their connection to FIRST was. Apparently it was a family... the daughter was on team 555, and they had come to NYC to see her team compete. It was cool to meet people who you have things in common with, that you would never relate to otherwise. FIRST has a funny way of connecting people... I like it.

-- Jaine

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I was at the mall wearing my killer bees hat when someone asked me if i was part of that team. We talked for a while about robotics. It was interesting.

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I've met two Thunderchickens at church and another FIRSTer from our Championships division at an awards ceremony, that was cool

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Disney Grad was last Friday. After the park let out, my group of friends got on the ferry to get over to the bus parking lot. it was about 3:30ish AM and I was pretty out of it. A girl noticed my collared shirt with the FIRST logo on it and asked if I was on a team. After getting over the shock that 1. a female came over to talk to me and 2. she wanted to talk about robots... we had a short conversation. She was from team 116, which was also somewhat peculiar because I couldn't figure out a group from New Hampshire was doing in Florida, but hey the night was a blast. Good times, Good times.

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Today at a war canoe regatta in Mississauga, I saw a guy wearing a GTR shirt from this year. I didn't go up and talk to him, however, because by the time I screwed up my courage to do it, I couldn't find him, and I was in too many races/cheering for our varsity team. (I was on Junior Varsity, and helped out the Cawthra Varsity)

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116 is from northern VA. I saw a guy from Kilroy at my church once....

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I was working at Six Flags St. Louis the other week, ride operations on The Boss, and I saw a kid wearing a simple FIRST shirt, didn't manage to ask him what team or where he was from.....

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I met some people on a team in the town close to us at a hair salon that my mom goes to. It was cool because I was bored wating for my mom to get her hair cut, so I talked to them for a while. They were getting free tanning passes to raffle off for their team.

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i was at my stepfather's friend's party, and i started talking to someone around my age and when i asked him what he did the weekend before he said he was at San Diego for a robotics scrimage, which was awkward because i was there too..lol

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i met a member from team 180 on a PSP forum

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i was at 6 flags geat adventure for our physics final waiting to go on the new roller coaster, kingda-ka, which by the way was well worth the 3 hour wait, but i met a few kids from the pi-oneers(1676) A few of us were wearing out "I <3 autonomous mode" shirts." But we got alot of comments just from ppl who saw out shirts, they want to know what we are all about

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My dad was renting a powerwasher at a Home Depot in Shelby Twp. a couple weekends ago, and the guy working the tool rental section was a Lawrence Tech student who was on a FIRST team in high school. I don't remember exactly which team he was from, but I think it was 217.

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On the Thursday of the Chesapeake Regional this year, my team went to the Annapolis Mall for dinner. The drive team decided to go looking for new joysticks since the drivers weren't happy with ours(never got to RadioShack, though), and while we were eating ice cream by one of those backlit maps, some guys from another team started looking at the map, looking for RadioShack. I seem to recall hearing one of them saying something about new joysticks... :yikes: We didn't get a chance to talk to them, so I have no idea what team they were from. Lots of teams were there that night, though.

I didn't really meet this guy because he's in FIRST, but...I just found out a friend of mine who lives pretty far away from me and I've known for years is on a team. He's never mentioned it before, and this is my first year on a team.

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My dad works with 2 former FIRST-ers, and they are my friends now. I work with 2 former FIRST-ers as well (one from my team, who also happens to be my boyfriend, and a guy from another team). Very cool. I love how FIRST has made it's way into everything!

In fact, it's part of my job ;) My company sponsors the AZ Regional Event, as well as my team. :)

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I've had two run-ins since the last post in this thread. (Which means, naturally, that I have to revive it.)

One of them I happened to start IMing when she joined the Preston forums. She was on a team in Atlanta--can't remember the number.

The other one, as it just so happens, sits two seats down in SOCY 101. :D

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Firsters as you said are popping up all over the place. Especially in the places you would never expect to see them.

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I drove 1300 miles from Nashua NH, to New Orleans over the fourth of July for an secr.org event. Met a girl who was in FIRST at another school during high school. Monday was 3 months together.

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I just had a job interview with W.L.Gore where the interviewer saw that I had FIRST on my resume, and got very excited because he had been a student on one of the 1992 teams. We spent the first half of the interview just talking about FIRST.

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I have ran into a few after I moved down here to State College. Once in a while I will be at a bus stop and notice someone with a FIRST shirt on, and we will chat. In my complex alone, I believe there are 5 of us. I stick out like a sore thumb on the Segway, and FIRSTer's usually approach me.

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I was at a local comic shop and ran into the mentor from TnT. He was there playing a trading card game with his son.

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I saw someone from team 534 (or wearing their shirt atleast) while at a yard sale up around Fayetteville TN, either last year or the year before

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I met parents of one of the Rhode Warriors (from rhode island) all the way out here in southern arizona at an art festival

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While I was at St. Paul's Advanced Studies Program this summer (A summer program for talented NH students) I met 5 or 6 people who were in FIRST. Plus, my teacher for the summer was the coach of St. Pauls FIRST Team. I know it is academic related, but it is outside FIRST, so I suppose it counts.

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I found out at a family reunion that my cousin in NH is involved on the Keene FIRST team...and while I was at a girl scout gold award meeting, I met a girl from team 176 who was also going for her gold! what a small world

edit: and I didnt realize that the person above me is on his team! it really is a small world!

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I was wearing a team shirt while camping in Yellowstone. I was at a "ranger lesson" and saw some other robogeeks from michigan. The ranger was wondering why we were all sticking around so late and we it explained it. Turns out the ranger was in FIRST in high school, too!

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I think you were the guy I saw back in July when I was up staying at my brother's house... I was wearing a yellow Mayhem @ The Museum t-shirt.

Small world.

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Met one at a bowl alley at a really late time once.

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not yet for me though but I'm hoping, it's kinda hard since my team is the only FIRST team in my school district and I don't get out of the county much.

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Well, I'm not sure if this counts, but it sure comes close...

My parents were at a wedding this weekend and brought home a 'program' of sorts from the wedding that had little blurbs about the wedding party. As I glanced through it, one name popped out:Emily Pease described as a robot builder from Boston! I gasped and immediately went on ChiefDelphi and sure enough, I found an awfully similar gal that my mom had indeed remembered meeting at the wedding.

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Jamaica. We were on a cruise, and while wandering around a Margaritaville restaurant, a woman noticed my Dad's 587 shirt and asked us about it, if I remember correctly she was thinking about getting involved. My memory isn't the best in the world, she might have already been involved and wondering about us. I also saw someone in a FIRST volunteer shirt at Watercountry, USA in Virginia, but I never talked to them.

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I was wearing my team shirt at a music session hosted at a church. This guy walked up to me and he has been on of the teams at the NY Regionals the previous day.

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I just remembered he was from 116 and says he was in the A&E special. I'll have to look closely now.

I also recently spotted a kid (hard to really call him a kid since he had a full beard) shopping at the Wegamns in Henrietta in a 1403 shirt (probably not all that surprising since RIT kids shop that Wegmans alot and alot of FIRSTers end up at RIT).

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now keep in mind i am an adult parent.

While at the meat market I was stanidng in the checkout line and someone taps me on the sholder and says "I got spirit yes I do, I got spirit how bout you!" knowing this standard greeting in our area I turned around and without thinking scream out at top of my lungs the return greeting. Everyone in the store turned to stare at me. I left rather quickly after that. Turns out I had more spirit :D or at least much louder lungs

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Ah yes. Us FIRSTers must remember that outside of the season we must remember to send our inner child to the corner for a timeout. :D

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A couple of friends and I were buying gift card for our mentor at BEST BUY and the cashier was from the Kell robotics team.

One of the students on our team has an uncle who is a mentor on 832. She never told us this...

We gave a presentation to the "The Top 40 Business Leaders of Cobb County" and it turned out one of the businessmen had a daughter at our school.

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A friend of mine from my old high school team (201), is doing a NASA internship this summer in Maryland. The girl she's rooming with there is a former student from team 859 from Morgantown, WV, with whom my team won the Buckeye Regional in 2002. I thought that was pretty neat...

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FIRST ought to have a secret handshake like the Masons.

That would make it easier to identify people... :D

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Like spelling "geek" in sign language?

It was after the Philly regional, and my dad and I were seeing the Liberty Bell, I turned around and there was a 157 mentor. The funny thing was that he was the programmer we worked with in our alliance.

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Jim Thorpe, PA. Paintballing. Odd eh? My boyfriend on 25 had invited me to go camping, white water rafting, and paintballing with them and I got the ok from my mom. When we got there (all 17 of us), we got about 5 others added onto our team. During the second game, I was paired up with two guys to cover an area.

After that, we (me, my bf, and the two boys) kept pairing up to cover areas. In the second to last match, I got injured so had to sit out and one of the two boys was also injured, so we walked to the side and began talking. For some odd reason, I mentioned FIRST and he said that he was on team 1230, as was the other guy. One is a senior, the other a college frosshie. After the last match, my boyfriend came back and so did the other guy.

We had managed to find the only two other FIRST geeks in the town of Jim Thorpe, PA. 25, 1089, and 1230 were the teams at this meeting.. We all started exchanging CD names and AIM and BAM! a nice friendship and possibly a nice paintball team ensued...

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I met jimmy and Dan from 484 at a boy scouts leadership camp

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I wasn't there when this happened, but some of my team members told me that someone from 007 was at our hotdog stand fundraiser outside of Wal-Mart...apparently he was on vacation.

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heres a good 1,

i met the driver from 1685 2 day when we were put in the same room for SAT testing. thats about as random as it gets

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I went to my little sister's orchestra concert to find myself seated next to Ian MacKenzie (UFH, and Team 1114, among other things). Turns out his parents are in the same orchestra as my sister. It was especially great to have a FIRST conversation because I go to an engineering school (just finished freshman year), and I'd just gotten home for the summer and was missing my nerdy college life. Talking about FIRST certainly made me feel better!

Adelaide.
(Team 1275 grad, Team 97 mentor)

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I was walking out of Home Depot once, and I saw a guy with a FIRST shirt on walking to his car as well.

Technically I didn't meet him, but I saw him.

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I was at my Senior Outing, and I saw a girl in a TechnoTics shirt. I shouted "Yay TechnoTics!" and she just said "Yea...." and kept walking.

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um... yea, that was me, so ditto on that story

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He's one of the two boys.. and such pains they are too.. ;) *hides*

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I have a pretty good one. I met a team member from team 1351 of Mitty High. Not too special, since were both Bay Area teams, right? Well, not really, since we were on a campus tour of MIT, clear across the country. :p

That's my random FIRSTee encounter.

Mike C.

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I still like the "Meeting Odd People in FIRST Places" thread...

I actually had a guy in my dorm who wore a number of FIRST shirts. I used to see him often in the cafeteria, but was never able to catch him in time while chasing him. So if there is a guy who lived in Shaw hall last year at MSU and often saw a loud, blonde girl following you, really, it was just to talk about robots, promise!

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Mine would have to be when a bunch of 1502 people went out to the premire of The DaVinci Code (in team shirts, after a day of presenting to 8th graders) and came across some people from from 1015--pioneer high school. It was a little strange, because they just came up to us and started talking. Pretty cool, though.
And another--I was judging Robofest at the community college and it turns out one of the fellow volunteers had been on a team in the very early years (of tethers and yellow tee-shirts). Now he's a fully fledged grownup.
~Anna

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Haha, that reminds me...one of my teammates was in my SAT testing room, in 7th grade when we both took it as part of an advanced placement program thing. This was before our area HAD a team, so two years later I couldn't figure out where I had met him before. Until my mom pointed it out.

That's sort of meeting a FIRSTie...he was on the FLL team, so he was already one, I just wasn't yet.

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I met one in a don Pablo's..... but then again you meet all kinds of people in a Mexican restaurant :D

-Q

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I was at my Senior Picnic at Holiday Hill in Prospect, CT (farish from Shelton, farther from north CT) when someone came up and said hi to me...I couldn't figure out how I knew him until he said he was from Tolland and I realized I had spent most of the Championships this year hanging out with RAGE. Sorry Trevor! :o

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I sometimes see her ^ at WCC. Haven't seen her since Nats though, probably 'cause there aren't as many students taking classes here in the spring/summer.

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I meet a first person from 007 who happend to be sitting next to me at aquire the fire a christan concert.

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I have been working at mcdonalds almost a year now and the other day a spetacular thing happened when i was off duty. I had on my team shirt and was eating and suddenly and older gentleman comes up and starts talking about his days in FIRST. then i found out that he was on the original team started back in 97 I believ. simply incredible.

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Aww, geez, I hope he was a mentor. If someone on a 1997 team is an "older gentleman" I'd hate to think what that makes me!

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well, i didn't actuallly MEET him, but my dad and i were driving through princeton, and i saw a student walking down the street.....wearing a FIRST shirt. i couldn't catch the number, we were driving by too fast.

technically, i guess this could go into the "overdosed on FIRST" thread because as soon as i saw it, i thought "OMG! I SHUOLD PUT THIS ON THAT CD THREAD!"

....oops.

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We have them in Az now too thank god for In-N-Out!

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I saw head referee Ian Lao at a claim jumper in AZ a week before the championship

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A little while ago, I was at the library, when I saw a guy wearing our team hat. So I snuck up behind him and proceeded with "GIVE ME A D!!" He gave me a D, alright, and we almost got kicked out of the library. But we ended up in the library cafe discussing team goings-on for like an hour. It was awesome to meet an alum who was back in the area.

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I found a bunch of FloridaFirst people at a local community pool recently...


Oh wait, that was the Mayhem Day 1 Field. Oh, and I propose we rename the field archimedes in honors of the water displaced!

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he was a professor at clarkson whoms department supported the team, sorry but he looked to be 50 or 60

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Was talking to a senior producer at the TV station in Toronto that I shoot for and was mentioning FIRST as a possible story/series idea etc etc, turns out his wife was in FIRST when she was in school, she is 29 now so she was I guess a FIRST FIRSTer? . It is a very small world.

mark

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I see tons of FIRSTers at math circles/competitions/programs, but I guess that's not too odd... :rolleyes:

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Ok...This is a little weird if you ask me...but, I was in (I think) North Carolina, coming home to PA from our vacation in Florida. And I had my chairman's award jaket on, and I was washing my hands when some woman comes up to me and says, I have been meaning to e-mail your team to congratulate you on you teams success this year, and I was thinking to my self ...Who is this woman and how does she know FIRST and where did she come from???...lol Apparently, she was with a Michigan team or at least she used to be!!!lol
So, that is my story of meeting FIRST people in odd places!!!lol

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I go to a summer camp called SYMS for music geeks basically and I wore my First shirt and like 14 people came over and started talking about their ideas for next years game.
I guess First attracts band kids there are 10 musicians on or team and 7 of them are in our high school band

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Our driver from last year works at a dock on the lake with a business that rents jet skiis and boats. A few weeks ago he was talking to a customer from Annapolis and mentioned that he competes with a team there every year, and that we did pretty well this year (didn't say anything about the team being a robotics team). She asked if he was on a robotics team, and how well exactly they did this year. When he told her we won, she said, "I knew I recognized you!" Apparently, we were on the cover of the Baltimore Sun and this woman was a parent of someone at Dulaney High School, 1727's school.

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Last night I went to a graduation party with my friend, not really knowing anyone who was there, including the person the party was for. As it turns out, the kid's older sister is dating someone who graduated from Platt Tech and was on team 905 for two years. When one of the adults asked me about my wristband and I started talking about first, he turned around and got right into the conversation, talking about how he'd watched his old team at competitions. and asking what I thought of this year's game. It made the party that much better!

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[ yes! a whole five day revival! ]

I saw someone wearing a Juggernauts shirt at Pirates of the Caribbean tonight at Emagine in Novi!!!

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I was in Seaside OR a couple of weeks ago, while on a vacation road trip with my family throughout Oregon and Washington. One of my sons said 'Mom, you're slipping. Someone with a FIRST shirt just went into that hotel. I think it was a 300 number."

I did not follow them. Otherwise I would be posting in the "been in FIRST too long" thread...

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I was on a flight Wednesday July 12 from San Francisco to Dallas and I saw someone ahead of me with a shirt that said Robotics on it.

I was going to ask if he was on a FIRST team but he was with his family and a fwe seats ahead of me.

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OO i was taking chem at Rutgers Prepatory School, and i spotted 2 people wearing 25 shirts,

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hehe
I was at LABC this week for camp and I spied this kid:

I ran up and asked for a picture of his shirt for proof... poor kid was terrified. Turns out his friend gave him the shirt.

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Met a FIRST robotics person over the internet, through a mutual friend. More interesting is I didn't learn he was FIRST until three years later :D

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I met some of my old schoolmates from Miami Florida at the World Championship event in Atlanta. I moved from Miami, Florida to Gainesville Virginia about 4 years ago and I hadn't seen any of my friends from Miami since I left.

It was a real treat hanging out with them again in the Atlanta Dome. :)

It's amazing how much different people can look after 4 years

I guess you could say that's flipped... meeting odd people in FIRST places :p

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I had a couple unlikely FIRST encounters over my summer vacation this year.

The first was at a pageant in upstate NY that my church puts on each year that my family was involved with. There was a cast of more than 600, so I obviously didn't know everyone there. As I was standing in the lunch line one day, I noticed that a kid in front of me had a FIRST shirt on - some 500s number I think. I talked to him for a little bit, it was pretty cool.

The second one was possibly even less likely. I was at an activity with my boy scout troop at a remote cabin in the mountains of Idaho that one of our leaders owns. The uncle and cousin of a different one of my leaders just happened to live in the area, and came up for shooting and motorcycling a couple of days. Turns out the cousin was a member of team 1839. I probably saw him at some point in Portland, but I didn't recognize him.

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I saw a mentor for team 330 (he was wearing his shirt) walking out of the Dollar Tree (a local thrift shop) and into VONS about 2 weeks ago, but he was gone before I even was done parking so I couldn't said hi....

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i was at Six Flags Magic Mountain,and i saw a robotics shirt in line for Scream waaay ahead of me, just to make sure, i ran up and read the shirt more closely, tapped the girl on the back, and was like," WOW youre on a FIRST team too?!?!?!" and she was like, " uh my brother is" oh well.

haha.


& i was at my design summer program, when this girl asked for my myspace, she walked into class the next day and said," WE'RE BOTH IN ROBOTICS, that is SOO COOL" .i thought it was pretty funny

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I was at iD Tech Camp last week, taking the Programming v2.0 course for programming in C++ and/or Java. There was a kid in my class from 293. His name was Chris, I believe.

I was a bit surprised I didn't meet some more people from FIRST there, but it really opens yours eyes to how many high schools there are that still don't have teams.

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OK so maybe it isn't really a FIRST person but it is kinda like one. My Science Professor at Columbia has a grey ponytail. Of course he is nothing like Woodie (my teacher kinda scares me and my fellow classmates) but anyone with a grey ponytail is awesome in my eyes.

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Well, I've been at ND well over one month now and, just last night, I found out that one of the girls who is on the novice rowing team with me was also in FIRST in high school - she was from team 141, the Wobots from Holland, MI. From then on, we spent the rest of dinner reliving old robotics memories :)

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there are only 2 miami teams.... 59 and 10-something, if its 59 I know m,ost of the recent team captains

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I was on a plane to london and i saw some kid with a FIRST shirt on, turns out he had the seat next to me on the plane....when i asked him about his team it was awkward because he told me "this is my brothers shirt" lol but it was still cool we talked about robotics for about 2 hours into the flight before it began awkward conversations so i started watching a movie...i forgot the team tho

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Add to that the former 212.

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Well, this is summer, my family went to a water park near us, and the ticket-taker was from team 1625! He immediatly recognized my brother and I from the milwakee regional, and we had a short little chat. A little reminder that January can't come fast enough!

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i knew this guy via email and a forum, i'd had multiple conversations with him, i'd beta tested a firefox extension with him...then one day i mentioned FIRST, and turns out he'd been involved during highschool.

It's not IRl...but it was close enough

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true ....our mentor used to be the mentor of team 212

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The other team is 1029 - Wolvcats.