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Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

The talk about the Kettering District makes something so much clearer to me now (and a little bit more frustrating):

I was standing in my pit area, talking to my fellow mentors about something when a young team walked by and screamed "ROBOT!" right in my ear...I was not in the way, and neither was anyone else, they just were yelling it about every five seconds.

I turned around and said, somewhat crossly, "Saying 'excuse me' is a much better way of clearing the path."
The poor student replied with, "'ROBOT' *is* FIRST for 'excuse me'" and then kept walking along.

It seemed to me that there was much more yelling of "ROBOT" at the Kettering District than at any other event that I've attended, and I'm now wondering if it was because someone directed teams to do this. ....which is utterly absurd. If you were that person, please stop, it bothers me.

It's precisely this type of behavior that caused me to start this thread. It truly is odd how widespread this is, like instructions were announced in some mass e-mail I didn't get.