[Kit Gerhart]

A number of years ago, I had a class at work on sexual harassment, which is most of what this thread is about. The gist of what we were taught is:

1) If you are "hit on," or whatever term suits you, by another person and if you are offended, don't like it, or just aren't interested, you should inform the person to to that effect. Then, if the person "does it again," that is harassment.

2) Basically, that means that you can be made to accept one "incident" without officially being harassed.

Of course, this was more than 10 years ago, so maybe the rules have changed. In any case, being made uncomfortable by other team members should not be part of a FIRST competition, and a FIRST competition is different from a work place anyway. Hopefully there are few cases where this becomes serious, but if a student is being seriously annoyed by a member of another team, they should probably tell someone like a mentor from that team.