What does your team give away at regionals?

[Gray Adams]

Originally Posted by Zembas

This sounds interesting. Do go on. Or is it secret?

Not really a secret, but I think it'll be a little more fun at SVR when we show them off if they haven't been posted to CD (we might even bring some to Baltimore depending on how much time I have to make them). A couple members from another local team have seen it already.

I don't think it'll be too hard to guess what it is, and I might end up just posting the final product soon, but here's something to chew on.

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[je2164]

Glad you asked. Being a rookie team we are in the process of getting buttons made and trying to decide what else we should/could give. How do we find out what is banned and not allowed?

Also, do you just set out a big bowl of items and go with the first come, first serve idea, then when you run out that's it?

[aeniug2]

Our team has always struggled with getting enough money for a robot, let along extra stuff to hand out... But this year we have the money, so it'll be our first year handing stuff out.

We're thinking of laser cutting some dog tags or something out of plexi... I suggested monocles... But that got shot down pretty fast.

seeing all these suggestions might help our team get creative, glad someone brought up the topic.

EDIT: (had to add this for clarity... See how awesome monocles would be?)

[davidthefat]

2 years ago, we gave away "ball-in-a-trident"; last year, we gave away little aluminium "robots?

[wendymom]

Originally Posted by je2164

Glad you asked. Being a rookie team we are in the process of getting buttons made and trying to decide what else we should/could give. How do we find out what is banned and not allowed?

Also, do you just set out a big bowl of items and go with the first come, first serve idea, then when you run out that's it?

The only thing I know for sure that is banned is food items and noise makers.

Only your team can decide how they want to give things out. Most of the time it depends on cost. We NEVER just give our stuff away. Our pins are hand made out of foam core and take a lot of time to make so in order to get one, you have to do something. Some people sing or dance, some tell jokes or recite poems. Its a fun way to get to know people.

Our squeezy pigs cost about 4.50 per pig so we only give out one per team, and one to each judge. Each of our students gets 3 to hand out at each regional. They get to decide who gets them. We encourage them to give at least one to a volunteer. (I think they may use them to start conversations with girls however.) Many of our pigs have ended up on other teams robots. I think a few of them may have even ended up on Einstein.

[Zembas]

Originally Posted by je2164

Also, do you just set out a big bowl of items and go with the first come, first serve idea, then when you run out that's it?

The bowl idea works, some people set up a table with a layout of their buttons. We tend to give them out to people who swing by. It think it's been mentioned, but if you don't know if your supplies will last, just bring a portion each day and tell people that you'll have more the next day. After a couple times, you get better at judging how many you need to bring, and maybe have a bigger budget a couple years in.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Zembas

Our team gives away buttons (two designs as of last year, I believe we are making more for this year) and shell leis (necklaces). I know last year we also gave some awards out. Those were little metal trophies of sorts, cut and engraved in CAD, with a new design for each award, and a plaque describing the award, on a wooden base. The awards were rather expensive and took a while to make, though. This year, we're also giving out mardi gras beads with a team tag on them, as those are rather popular due to their cost and availability.

Aren't you forgetting our signature items? Dole Pineapples, MacNut chocolates, and other snacks?

[MagiChau]

We are continuing with handing out "BOB rags" (Blue shop rags with the yellow BOB logo on it) They come in handy

[1986titans]

Originally Posted by its da PAT!!!

Last year we give out a dry erase board of the playing field and markers to every team. And like every team we hand buttons out.

We've done variations of this for the last couple years.

Last year, we also gave out Gracious Professionalism wristbands.

I've always been a fan of writing utensils, personally.

[Akash Rastogi]

We'll be giving these out: http://www.atomicrobotics.com/2012/0...s-raise-money/

We have them for purchase in black, red, and now blue right on our website.