[MisterX]

This is mainly directed at PINK- (other team colors in following post)
Ever curious why jail cells and opposing team locker rooms share ur team colors? Dr. Alexander Schauss, Ph.D., director of the American Institute for Biosocial Research in Tacoma Washington, reported that when painted pink, it reduced aggressive behavior among prisoners. “Even if a person tries to be angry or aggressive in the presence of pink, he can't. The heart muscles can’t race fast enough. It’s a tranquilizing color that saps your energy. Even the color-blind are tranquilized by pink rooms.” After testing he discovered that a certain shade of pink had a calming effect on the nervous system. Inorder to test this theory he needed a large group of agitated people in a controlled enviroment, what better then a bunch of prisonerss just arrested right off the street or in his case the sea? So he approached the officials at the US NAval Correctional Center in Seattle. Expecting resentment, after all it is ppink and not some burly blue or green or gray, Schauss was surpised when they even offered to help paint the cells. After 10-15 minutes in the cell prisoner who were once kickign screaming and scussing had become very sedate. Thsi effect even lasted about 30 minutes after leaving the area.

however for you mentors out there with rowdy kids dont rush out to Home Depot for paint just yet. After 2 hours (far less then typically spent in a robotics lab during build season) subjects satrted to bascially OD on the color becoming very disturbed and/or severly depressed. But as plus during competitions were the venue food is just to expensive by staring at a sheet of pink paper for 1-2 minutes you can actually suppress your appetitie!

Don't you wish your team colors were pink now?!