[Kevin Sevcik]

You kind of have to be very careful about this. Putting out personal information about high school students is a VERY tricky thing. For instance, one of our mentors this year had a fun idea of creating collectible trading cards of students on our team for distribution at LSR. The cards were printed up and looked spectacular, save for one important item. They were printed up with the student's full name, birthday (MM-DD), grade level, picture, and a few silly facts. The last item isn't a problem, but the first four together are entirely too much information to be handing out on a convenient calling card about a minor. We figured the cards wouldn't fly, but we ran it by our principal to make certain and he more or less looked at us like we were crazy.

So while I like the idea of name tags, and the proposed info would probably be okay, I really think they should be a completely voluntary and self-inflicted kind of thing.

What would be a good/great idea would be for some enterprising team to set up a small, relatively professional printing/laminating service to print up and sell custom lanyards to anyone who wanted them. I think you'd probably need some sort of permission from FIRST if you're selling something with a FRC logo on it, but I don't think it'd be hard to get as long as it's small scale and proceeds are going to the team.