I was at In-n-Out the other day and I saw a man with a shirt that said "Sonoma Robot Games" but nothing about FIRST....I was too shy to ask him about it...I regret it now...

Early last summer, I was walking down Main Street in Newark with a couple other Miracle Workerz Alumni when I saw a guy wearing an old Buzz (175) shirt (2001 season I think, since it just had smily face, without a graduation cap (2002) or a astronaught helmet (2003)). We were thinking about telling him that Newark and all of Delaware was MOE territory and he cant wear that here, but we decided he might not take that joke well. We were starving so we just went to eat at Cluck U instead of talking to him.

For Buzz:

2000: smiley with sunglasses
2001: smiley with graduation cap
2002: plain smiley
2003: space suited smiley

... I have no clue who would be down there and would have a Buzz shirt (and actually wear it in public)

that's just weird!


I tend to run into a random person every once in a while and find out that they know about FIRST. It's pretty cool.

I like never run into anyone up here... But I saw someones car in SC when I was on vacation... It had a team sticker and an autodesk bandana inside the car...

Wierd places
 

Mmmmm the way I actually got roped into FIRST is that I was browsing IndyDDR Forums and I happened to read a post by a kid who had "FIRST" written in his signature, and a whole bunch of links. Crazy, he's now my buddy. DDR & FIRST bring the world together .:cool:

I have never meet anyone that was in FIRST outside of FIRST who I didn't already know. And I DO wear my FIRST shirts a lot to hotel pools, parks, etc, so I'm bound to be seen....

But seeing some Technocats at a Christian Rock concert is #1 on my odd-FIRST-members-sigting...

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Hmmm... I wonder who this "Crazy Kid" could be? ;)

My friend and I ran into kids from another FIRST team at a chinese buffet during an out-of-state band/choir trip with our school.

I have a couple incidents here:

1: I walked into my Engineering Orientation Lecture (my attendence based class so I can decide what facet of engineering I want to go into) & behind me walked in a kid in the anniversary FIRST shirt. I asked him, turns out he's from 224 (Piscataway HS), but I think I came off as a little too excited, because he didn't talk to me after that.

2: I was walking to the student center the next day before my chemistry class and passed another kid wearing the same anniversary shirt and i was like "yeah FIRST" and he was like "FIRST is life." but we kept walking, didn't really talk to each other. Then, he just showed up right behind me in my chemistry class later that day. I was playing with my FIRST lanyard from EPCOT & the kid next to him was like "dude, she has a FIRST keychain!"

3: This didn't actually happen to me, but I don't think the actual person will post here. At my Engineering Orientation (Mandatory) Picnic, one of the kids on Team 25 stood in the middle of the quad and shouted "Yeah FIRST" just to see how many people would turn around. Needless to say, it was more than half the kids there.

i live in a dorm, and and at USF (i don't know 'bout other schools...) each floor has 2 RA's (resident assistant), who are 2nd-, 3rd-, or 4th-year students who keep the freshmen in check.
i was talking to one of my floor's RAs, and it turns out that not only is she the president of the school's robotics society, but is also alumni from team 386 (voltage). the vice-president of the robotics society is also from 386.

This summer i was at Bush Gardens in Tampa and at one of the food places I saw someone wearing the shirt they gave out at the 2002 nationals. I didn't talk to him but I did see him staring at my 108 shirt.


P.S.- RogerR: An alumni of 108 is at USF (not sure if he lives in a dorm)

Well, I met three more FIRSTers in Bursley Hall... one from 469, one from a team I can't remember, and one who was working on the student dining hall staff. He saw my 2001 Nationals shirt, and said "hey, I was in that." I asked him what team he was from, and he said something in the 300s, and that they were NYC regional champs one year.

do you have his name?
i might have classes with him (assuming he's majoring in engineering)

I was at Great America on band/orchestra tour and I ran into my GRT buddy...That was back in May...