[blayde5]

I too had an encounter with this lady. Myself and one of the students both had gotten chewed out for simply forgetting our safety glasses in the pits. Furthermore, she also lectured the student for 10 minutes and proceeded to complain how she was blocking traffic (even though she was talking to her at the time)

Obviously this is one of the few isolated incidents but because of her interactions with many of the event's guests, something should have been done about it.

My biggest concern is the difference of treatment depending on the volunteers. If you're not going to lend them out to non-spectators, then don't for the entire weekend. Keep some consistency. Another problem is that we don't really know who to contact about volunteer issues and I think FIRST should clarify this for at least the mentors.

Aside from all of this, I'm happy to say that many of the volunteers always had a smile on their faces and even though you could tell when they were stressed, many of them found a way to exhibit the spirit of FIRST so bravo to them.