people i met at Natonals
 

heres an offshoot of ryan's thread.
people on my list to meat at natonals that i got to meet

i met...

Dave lavry (hees awesome and i got a hug)
Dean kamen (signed my shirt and my control box)
sarah (always a smile on her face great person to be around)
Beth (words cant desctribe how awesome she is)
Andy baker (thank you for the 45 shirt and the convo in my pit and the one with ryan dan and aerfin in 45's pit)
paul capoli (said hi, then i had to drive in a practice match, never saw him afterwqards :( )
brandon martus (i still want that empty box)
all my florida guys (you know who you are and what i think about you already)
kit gearheart (didnt have time to speak with you at ucf, glad i got the chance in georgia)
the people i forggot so far... dont worry i just got back and im still not up yet i didnt forget

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Im hoping this was your pits but where you there when a Lion took some french fries from your teamate.

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WEll i got to meet everyone on my list except for DJ Fluck (he was running around to much in the costume) and john v-neun but are team did go against him once in newton and from waht i remeber we won :)
I met:
Andy baker (really cool guy)
KoKo Ed (was having a really good talk with him till big mike gave him a hug)
Brandon Martus
Amanda Morrison
Dave Lavery
Dean Kamen (he signed my hat)
sarahb

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I got to meet team 364 from Gulfport, Ms. Although i didn't see all of them i talked to some mentors and a few students. I also met the FLL team from D'Iberville, Ms. This may not seem like much to you but these guys our from my old schools before i moved away.

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Quickly off the top of my head
Woodie Flowers...finally. First time for me, been waiting 2 years for it.
Dean Kamen...always nice to meet, even if just for a second
Dave Lavery...who managed the greatest fashion faux-pas of the century
Erin Rapacki (sp?)
Amanda Morrison
Brandon Martus
Ken Leung...good to see you as always
Dave Kelso...congrats
Adrian Santos from 254...great to see you man, it's been like SIX YEARS since we last met! holy cr*p!
Jason Morella
Wendy Wooten....is awesome
Cathy Beck of Cybersonics
Ric Roberts...great to see you as usual, see you for the Fall Classic?

Sorry if I'm forgetting anyone, it was such a great experience to meet all of you (some for the first time face to face)

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people i met at nationals...

DEAN (he signed my shirt...weeeeeeeeeeeeeee)
DAVE (he signed my shirt too... )
Brandon
Amanda
DJ
ANDY!
mike
alex (omni guy)
KOKO Ed
Jessi
Katie

(if i am forgetting somebody in this list, i apologize)...

cant forget all the buddies... from SPAM, SWAMPTHING and PAW....

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Actually, I was on the field taking pictures/video...I was only the mascot for the webhug time :p

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Dean
Woody
Dave
Andy Brockway
Guy that made aol sprocket thingy
Awsome monkey guy from team 811

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I don't think I could list the people I met without unintentionally missing more than half of them. I'd just like to thank those who came up & said hi and chatted for a while. It was really nice meeting all of you, and I hope to see you all again at future competitions.

Next up .. IRI. You know you wanna go.

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My list is really long as well. At least thirty people came and looked for me. Thanks to you all, I was very glad to meet you and check out your robots. It's amazing how you can just sit down in the stands to watch divisional finals and find yourself discussing a match with Andy Baker and John V., or on a long walk back to the pits say hi to Dave Verbruge or Dave Lavery. In a way, it would almost be nice for nationals to be one day longer, then I think about all the lost sleep and the pain in my feet and say thanks for just the three days.

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I met Woodie Flowers wife and she took a picture with the people in the Halll of Fame booth and Dave Lavery did the same thing.
Dean singed my newspaper and T-shirt and Woodie singed my T-shirt as well.

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Yes, I met Dean, Woodie, and Dave, and they signed my shirt, but they don't compare to all the other people I met. I met people from all over the world: teams and volunteers coming together to have fun, compete and help. I was an experience I will never forget.

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*EVIL GRIN* :D So after the hypnotist was done with you and you were sleepwalking afterwards courtesy of him, you still remember meeting a few people?

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I'm not sure how much of the weekend after the hypnotist show she remembers at all! :)

I got to meet Cheryl of Beach Cities Robotics (Team 294) as well as Wendy of Homer (Team 22), both of whom were gracious to spend time with me discussing Chairman's Award submissions.

And I had a blast going through the entire pit area, distributing the "All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from FIRST" essay to each team. I met a LOT of great students and mentors there!

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Sigh.....Being chained to the stands to scout matches left me little time to meet many of you great FIRST people. I even missed the webhug. Bummer

However, I did get to meet Erin Rapacki. She even let me ride her Segway. I gotta get one now.

It was good to see those friends that I have already made and I look forward to next year, making my list and having someone else do the scouting.