[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by jtdowney

How about giving out team t-shirts, buttons, and other items.

My son covered his t-shirt with team buttons, then started handing them out -- servers in restaurants, workers in the dome, people working in our hotel, other FIRST participants. I was surprised how many happy "thank yous" he got. And the pins were all ones he'd picked up in the pits, so it didn't even cost anything. I noticed that the desk clerks at the hotel ended up wearing more pins than my son had given them, so I suppose it caught on in at least a small way.