Marrage In FIRST

[Marjory Frosty]

I am taking a pole to see who is getting married or is married to someone that they wouldn't have met if they weren't in FIRST.

For me I wouldn't have met my Fiance because of FIRST. He was on team #201 and if it wasn't for FIRST it's a safe bet that we would have never met. The same thing goes for his sister who's boyfriend is on #27 and she's on #201. I was talking with Martus about ho funny it is and he brought up the idea to do this thread. So if you you have a story about how you and your other met because of FIRST share it with the rest of us.

Marjory
"Frosty"

[Alaina]

I'm in robotics because of my boyfriend...But I guess that's different...

[Marygrace]

I know a couple that used to be on our team. They met through FIRST. I think their wedding is in June. Yeah!! Congrats by the way, on getting engaged!

[Koko Ed]

My wife and I didn't meet because of FIRST (blind date) but FIRST is the perfect activity for us. She's a teacher at Wilson Magnet and I work for Xerox. It's a marriage of convenience.

[Katie Reynolds]

One of the former members of my team (Chelly's sister!) is getting married to a guy she met in FIRST.

- Katie

[Gadget470]

I'm not surprised at all by FIRST-formed relationships and marraiges being somewhat common. It's a long-term activity with close interaction of like interests. Should an attraction form, there is already a basis for "compatibility."

Then there are the marriages and relationships that form when one person is in FIRST and the other wasn't, usually the one who isn't wants find a way to be involved.

[apk]

My team has been (up until 02 season) run by a husband and wife. They are both teachers, but they teach at different schools in my district (the district has only 2 high schools). The team consists of both schools.

[Beth Sweet]

Two of our old mentors ended up meeting and getting married through FIRST. Now the the woman is pregnant and due any day!!! What do you think of the name Dean... (j/k!)

[WakeZero]

I suppose if a FIRST team can design, build and test a robot in six weeks... anything else is possible

[Austin]

you mean marriage? I'm obviously not married (only 16) but i have met many fun and interesting people in first, and even some people that i wish that i could date, but they just live too dern far away...hmm...how about a long-distance relationship...?

[Specialagentjim]

Funny you should say long distance relationship....lol

Yeah, anyone who's seen any of my posts directly before chicago midwest or nationals may have noticed me point out somone in particular, lol. My girlfriend is the absolute BEST, I met her actually on CD. We talked for a long time and met up in chicago and houston. It really kinda sucks we only get to see each other twice a year at the moment (she's on 71, in Indiana...I'm 108, Florida)....but it's worth it to be with her

So there's mine..not exactly marriage, but a relationship built upon talk (we talked on the phone for 17 hours last weekend , THAT was great )


...being she'll probobly read this: Love ya babe! [The rest of you can disregard this ]

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally posted by Specialagentjim
Funny you should say long distance relationship....lol

So there's mine..not exactly marriage, but a relationship built upon talk (we talked on the phone for 17 hours last weekend , THAT was great )

Austin, don't be discouraged! distance relationships with FIRST aren't too hard.

and yep, joys of night & weekend minutes! that was great!!!

several people on my team are talking to other teammates or people on other teams, but i think i'm the only one actually dating someone on another team.

[sorry, everyone can disregard this too...hehe, love ya too jim! ]

[David Kelly]

Teams 234 and 393 have a unique marrage relationship. In 1999 Cyber Blue 234 was started by Scott Ritchie. His wife Libby came and sat in on some of our meetings. She liked it so, much that she decided to start her own team in 2000. This relationship started out rough, but has greatly improved over the years. We're not as nice to each other as people may think . Both teams like to have "bonding" events together including helping TP others houses!!! I think that these may be the only 2 teams in FIRST that have both a husband and wife manage 2 separate teams.


Now that we know we can get along at competitions, we should start signing up to go to the same ones... ahem, Libby, Scott

[Ashley Weed]

There has been a lot of 'historical relationships' on our team since it started. However, the only marriage I can think of is my floor coach Lucas is engaged to another Alum of the team. Not sure when they are getting married though.

....hehe, anyone ever thought of having the robots in their wedding party??? whoa! that'd be wicked cool!

[Amanda Morrison]

I believe team #135, Penn Robotics, is run by Phil Perdan and his wife (I'm incredibly sorry if I get this name wrong, my advance apologies) Holly. Indiana is good for getting spouses involved, I suppose. Team Hammond, I know, has the whole Beatty family, the Noble's (Chris went off to help start 461), the Michna's (Sarah the driver went off to St. Mary's and wants to start a team), the Kolodziej's (everyone knows and loves Kevin, who started a team at MSOE), the Preissig's, and the Weber's, among others. Their kids got involved with FIRST, got their parents involved, and now Team 71 has a great parent backing.

I met my boyfriend last year on Team Hammond, and we started dating shortly after the MMR. Going strong ever since (and another reason I'd like to get a team started at Rose-Hulman). It's hard to pull off a FIRST relationship, much less a FIRST long-distance relationship, but possible.