Tying back hair in the pits at competition

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There's a bigger problem with the social tact norms - *a lot* of students simply do not understand this. Every single year, I have to tell the students on the team to separate themselves and not hug, touch, massage their team mates or people they meet. These people think that everyone are friendly and welcomes all of these social intrusions - like everybody they see on TV/Netflix/whatever else. It takes a while for them to understand that the workspace is completely different from their personal friend space. Hopefully, they learn that by the time Competition comes around...

I have a rule about keeping arms length from people and making sure people are separated with their personal space... sometimes that's hard to do when you have to work on the robot though. And the pit, it's hard enough to squeeze the fab, safety, marketing, and the programming team into the same 10x10 space.