Though I'm not talking about my team here, I wanted to post about the joys of volunteering at competitions.
Volunteering is so much fun! This coming from a girl who used to volunteer in the time period when you had to know someone to get a volunteering job (side note: that volunteer form makes me feel so old)
Jobs I have held over my FIRST volunteering career:
-Media Tent volunteer...where I met Jeb Bush
-Dean's "watch" (I have no idea if he does now, but Dean wasn't wearing a watch at all in 2000...and because my old team required watches on at all times, I was assigned to follow him around and tell him when his appointments were)
-Dean and/or Woodie fetcher (as you can tell by going to a regional or nats, Dean & Woodie like to wander off...and it was my job to track them down)
-Media Scaffolding control...gives you the best view of the field in the entire place
-FIRST Place front desk attendant....with the lovely Lora Knepper!
And you get cool stuff too! I have volunteer tshirts dating back from 1995 b/c FIRST was clearing them out one of the last times I volunteered. They also used to give you water throughout the entire competition. But my favorite gift was way back when in 2000 when Sandra Darah used to work as FIRST's media rep...and one random day in May I recieved a letter of recommendation from her in the mail to use as I wished. I like to believe it was one of the things that helped me get into Babson
So my point is, by all means, get into volunteering at competitions. I started doing it because there's sometimes not much for a student not working on the robot to do during Nationals...I wanted something more out of it, I wanted to see a different side. And I got more out of it than I ever want to admit.
Thanks for listening to my morning rambling!