Next year we will probably have someone start staying in our pits, just hard to ask a kid to stay behind while our bot is on the field.
I do wonder if First could do something about having someone patrol the parking area. Each team spends thousands and tens of thousands on our equipment and it would be nice if someone was just driving through and sitting there to call the police. If First doesn't do it we should. Just a rotating volunteer schedule. You see something, call the police and take a picture if need be. Usually just having people there will stop it.
The pits are more difficult. You just can't leave your pits unguarded. Not sure what if anything can be done over night. Our team uses a total if 9 ipads for data collection and I personally kept those next to me when they weren't in use. Except for occasional breaks to walk around (where I had another mentor watch them) I made sure our stuff in the stands stayed safe.
I don't think it was a first team, just difficult for a kid to show up with an expensive camera without someone on the team going: "Where'd you get that and why do you have so many pictures of Team 2959 on it?"
