Three Tongue
 

Here is Andy showing his skills for a necklace.

Andy is the greatest...he does the weirdest stuff...

Canada
 

She just happend to work at Disney AND be from Canada.

yummy pinecones
 

notice that this isn't any ordinary pinecone, it's a 313 PINECONE!!!!!!!!!

i got one last year.......
 

I still have my glowing FORD necklace from last year...my daughter (Jayda) LOVES it!!!!!!
I missed you guys this year! Heard everyone had a great time at EPCOT!

Congrats to all that competed, and all who won awards!

-Lori- :)

2001 necklaces
 

Last year I got a National Championship Medal for a Ford Necklace from a Hammond Team member!

I got a ford glowy necklace at extra expense
 

hi,

At the time I asked this kid for his blue light-up ford necklace, the first thing he asked for was my chairmen's award medal. Obviously reluctant to give that up, we ended up bargaining on two smily face necklaces that have been highly desirable by students at other competitons. I think it was a good trade, until a certain member of my team ;) stole the ford necklace from me. oh well, i'll get one next year.

ByE

erin

smiley
 

Yep. That kid, was me. i got the smiley face necklaces and someone stole them from me! :o

To some extent, yes, it was a really cool giveaway. However, i wonder how much of the craze was just jealousy because 313 didn't have enough for everyone. Honestly, if everyone who wanted a ford necklace got one, would we still be raving about how cool they are? Maybe i'm being overly cynical, but i think not. So now we know...if you want to be popalar at a robotics comp...have a cool giveaway, but don't give away very many.

jealousy
 

Jealousy is the key factor to marketing.

Look at the Playstation 2. It was all hyped up, they only had 1000 or so at Christmas, so everyone wanted one.

This is a good experiment and lesson in marketing.

I just hope no one copies our idea and lessons the jealousy for our team.

But that is what you get for having something everyone else wants.

supply and demand

I don't care if everyone got one....I'd still love my blue glowy Ford necklace!:p All i had to do for one is ask my team member for it and he gave it to me......beats chompin on a pinecone!