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Let's see...

I met a guy from Team 830 refing at Futureball Outdoor paintball park.

At the local grocery store I work at, two of my co-workers are on Team 1.

I met somebody working at Bass Pro Shop's Outdoor World on Team 47.

My next door neighbor used to mentor a FIRST team.

I'm always trying to meet FIRST people outside of FIRST. I wear my shirts everywhere, not only because they're the only shirts I have, but I'm always trying to flag fellow robotics people.

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I always wear mine to airports. Ive found all sorts of people that way, Stang engineers, random people who've heard of it, sponsors. Cuts out weirdness when people can relate to you.

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I saw a guy wearing a team 22 shirt at Carnegie Mellon pre-college this summer. Also spotted a guy in a team 175 shirt at the airport in Atlanta when we were leaving from the championship. The assistant director of admissions at WPI (who e-mailed me because my counselor left some stuff out of my application... grr) was apparently involved with team 190 a couple of years ago.

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Well i know this is a pretty old thread but i had met some FIRST people in a odd place last night. I was working and i just gotten back to citywalk dock when one of the other captains told me that i should go talk to these girls they do robotics and wanted to know who i participated with. It turns out they are with team 190, so we chatted a few minutes and then they had to leave for there hotel. Hope to see them in nats

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i work with a guy on happague

walking through downtown new york city i saw a man wearing a first robotics shirt. i said hi and we talked for a lil about the new game....forgot his name and where he was from...i think it was chris

in a bathroom at my local bowling ally ;)

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Wow... it's been a while since I started this thread ;)

Anyways, I just thought I'd add that I've run into a few FIRSTers again this year. One was a student on the dining hall staff at my dorm; she was on a team from Fenton... I don't recall which. The other lives on my floor, and was a member of Team 74.

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my cousin is on team 1257 but that doesn't really count.

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I met some kid in my dining hall, but I might have posted about that already. He was on 381, another team that competes at Jersey. :)

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We just caught up with the member of another local team at music lessons. Another was shopping at the mall- he was on our team from about 5 years back and STILL wearing his team shirt- WAY cool!
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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.