[Koko Ed]

Every year I'm witness to (or hear about) some sort of "inappropriate" behavior at the hotel between competition. Whether it's kids pitching luggage off the balcony to teammates below, or hitting on young teachers in a rude manner on the elevator, to having a "hypothetical" question presented to me by a student about buying porn on a school trip.
Kids are prone to crazy things. We had security called on our kids and all they were doing was going door to door to each others rooms and knocking before they entered (obviously the guy hates kids).
One thing we make clear to our kids is we will not tape their doors or put pennies on them or anything like that. As our old lead mentor Gene Wicks simply put it "If we have to do that we won't take you." Just because they're kids doesn't mean they aren't accountable for their actions and that need to be made clear upfront so problems are avoided and embarrassment are avoided or something worse.
Remember when you are on the road you are not just representing yourself but your family, your school,your community, your sponsors, and FIRST itself and all of those can be forever tarnished because of "harmless fun"
It's just not worth it.