FIRST on Monster Garage
 

I was watching what I believe was a new Monster Garage tonight (July 26). The challenge was to rebuild a Blazer to race in the Pike's Peak Hill Climb. Good show...but the thing that really caught my eye was a t-shirt that one of the team members was wearing. I saw what looked like a gear with a blue glow...the competition shirt from '99. Sure enough, the back of the shirt was given a very short one second appearance with the FIRST logo visible at the top.

The contestant was Sarah Graneir (sorry, probably butchered the last name), an engineer from Manchester. Anyone know this person? Was she a former student in FIRST? A current mentor? Someone that works within FIRST itself?

Just thought it was pretty cool to see members of the FIRST community start to pop up on shows like these. Anyone want to take over Junkyard Wars with me?? :D

Kev

P.S. My apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but I don't think it really fits anywhere else.

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Ok, I just turned it on now and am watching the repeat..

What "build day" was she wearing that shirt?

edit: DAY 5!!!

Black shirt, grayish gear with bluish glow around it and the word FIRST in white letters below the gear..
I don't have that shirt... :(

edit 2: The internet is a wonderful thing.

Her actual name is Sarah Grenier.

She was a team member on WPI team 190 in 1998 if I am not mistaken.

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saw it also...another confermation is the fact that she is wearing a wpi hat the whole episode...thought that was kinda interesting

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Ooooh this is not cool ... I missed the show!! :( And I would've loved to see that episode!!

Does anyone know if there's going to be a repeat of tonight's episode ... maybe tomorrow or another day?? Please tell :ahh: !!! I want to see it! :)

But that sounds pretty awsome ... its great to see people from FIRST anywhere! And its also a great way to spread the message of FIRST ... I bet there were several people who watched that show going, "I wonder what the heck FIRST is?" Evetually, they'll come around! ;)

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I was watching that show last night when I dozed off (grrr)

Between the Manchester, NH part and the WPI hat, I had my suspicions. I'll find another rerun of it. Pike's Peak is teh haxor.

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I knew it! I was watching that last night and I heard that she was an engineer from Manchester, NH. Now when I hear Manchester and engineer, I automatically think FIRST, but it wasn't mentioned in her bio so I didn't think she was involved. Wow, that's awesome.

Re: FIRST on Monster Garage
 

Aug 08 2004
@ 02:00 PM

++ a little more info on show HERE

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That was a cool episode. And it was Jesse's favorite build.:)

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Same here, but I didn't notice for the entire episode that she had any FIRST gear on. I must have mentally dismissed the possiblity at the bio. I'll definitely be watching the repeat for that. :D

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horray for TiVo-like digital recorders! Missed it the first time I watched that episode (actually, I dosed off midway through), but I think I'll go watch it again with some breakfast in front of me.

[edit] For clarification, its on <i>Build</i> Day 5, but Day 6 (the last day) by the show's calendar. Unless I missed it ealier, it happens at the very end when they're recieving the tools. However, its quite small and I wouldn't have recognized it as a FIRST logo had I not read this thread. It almost happens as the truck with the fenders arrives, but the camera cuts her off at the last second.

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When she was plasma cutting the frame, she has it on underneith the suit. (DAY 5)
When they deliver the headers for the exhaust you can see it through the headers.

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I havent seen it yet, but Im gona try and catch it next time its on. It would be sweet if they got an all FIRST build team and make a robotic car of some sort that could preform tasks from some of the compititions.... on a larger scale of corse :-p

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One team 294 mentor almost made it on the rock-em sock-em robots episode, but ended up getting kicked off. Oh well, maybe we can get Andy on Monster Garage instead

-Daniel

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She was wearing an Intelitek Hat or shirt or somthing at one point, and during her bio they showed her in a lab with all the robot arms and stuff they make. I guess she works for them, we had some of thier robotic arms at my high school, its a company from manchester.

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I can "confirm" that Sarah is a mentor of team 40. She works at Intelitek, a company in Manchester NH, and she graduated from WPI, thusly explaining the WPI/Intelitek/First logos. :)