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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

I talked with FIRST student from half (4) of the team in my state (9) while running an K-State Open House display about FIRST.

I sat next to a kid in macroeconomics in the fall all semester and one day I saw him wearing a stack attack shirt. So after class I asked if he was from Newton, he was suprised that I knew where he was from. I had to explain to him that I saw his shirt and there were only two teams from Kansas at the championship and one was the team I was on.
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

I was in the gym a month ago, and in the recycling bin was one of the Shasta FIRST water bottles. That was from 2002, right? It surprised me.
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

OK!

So in September, I am standing around the cafeteria on lunch duty and a girl walks by in a Buzz Team 175 shirt. Our school is in Ambler,PA and Buzz is from CT. What was even more strange is that Buzz was one of our Galileo Division Partners at the Championship.

I couldn't believe it! So I talked to her and found out she just moved here. The odds are already tough enough, to move from one FIRST school to another FIRST school, but to land with your alliance partner is truly off the hook.

Anyway, needless to say that was the easiest recruiting I have ever done.

She will be back at Nationals, this time wearing "Daisies" instead of bright yellow.

Good luck to everyone at Nationals and in the off-season!!
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

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OK!

So in September, I am standing around the cafeteria on lunch duty and a girl walks by in a Buzz Team 175 shirt. Our school is in Ambler,PA and Buzz is from CT.
What is it with these Buzz kids invading our area? Last year I was walking down Main Street in Newark, DE with some friends (ironically 2 were MOE alumni and we were all wearing various FIRST shirts) to go get some chicken from Cluck U, when we saw a guy in a Buzz shirt with a couple other guys. It was an old school shirt, probally from 2000 or earlier. We were going to him that "Delaware is MOE territory and you can't wear that" , but they went into some store and we were hungry so we just went into Cluck U.
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

I have to drag this back up from the depths...

The other day I walked into a SWE (Society of Women Engineers) meeting. I'm sitting there talking to the Treasurer and her friend comes over and says one word to me. "FIRST?" Of course, my head jumps up and I ask how she knows of FIRST. Turns out, she wasn't a FIRSTer, but her roomate was and got her interested. There was also a team at her high school!

Just the other day I met one of my older fraternity Brothers who went to North Brunswick High School the year team 25 was started.

Oh, and turns out, my RA (resident assistant) last year went to the high school that's home of the Techno Ticks.
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

As long as it's back up from the depths...

I was walking around Epcot this summer, and an employee recognized my 226 shirt, and said they enjyed watching the cometition. Not a FIRST person, but somebody who remembered a t-shirt for two years, so that was pretty cool.

Later this summer I was in Houghton, MI. and somebody walked by me wearing a FIRST shirt. I didn't get a chance to talk to them though.

At the Woodward Dream Cruise this fall I saw somebody walking around completely decked out in HOT gear (t-shirt, jacket, and hat).

And I ran into somebody from 902 at one of my little brother's DI competitions.
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

I had PSAT classes in early October and I sat next to a girl who (as I overheard) was from Scotch Plains. This struck my interest, as I was due to join Scotch Plains's team in about a month or so, but I didn't bother to ask if she was on the robotics team.

Come Brunswick Eruption, I walked through the pits looking to introduce myself to 1257, and who do I see other than the PSAT girl.

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Me: "Err...I think so."
PSAT Girl: "Oh, right! From the PSAT thing."
Me: "Yeah, that's right. So what team are you on?"
PSAT GIRL: "1257. You?"
Me: "Errr....1257."
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

The ironic thing is both person that i ran into are from 267 (demosquad)... i ran in Randy who is now at Cornell at the Boca Town Center mall. and i run into Tom (their mentor) at FAU (Florida Atlantic University), when i take classes there randomly...
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

My band was playing a show at the Webster theatre in Hartford CT. I was walking around in the crowd and i saw this one kid with a 782 (Killowatts) shirt. I talked to him for a while. It was cool.
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

I've met about 4 or so CheifDelphiers while doing community service for Building with Books, because my school (International Acad.) and Pontiac Central are supervised by the same office. I also found someone from team 830 working as a ref at one of the paintball places i went to. I can't remember anyone else specifically right now.

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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

I see quite a few FIRSTers around campus. But that really isn't odd at all considering that VCU has been hosting a regional for 5 years now.

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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

[small world syndrome]

On the afternoon of Thursday 11/5 I had taken a bus from Boston to Manchester, NH. The plan was for my Grandpa to pick me up from the station at 5:05 pm so I may sleep at his house that night. I was scheduled to present at FIRST HQ for the WIST forum the next morning.

I managed to take an earlier bus, I've arrived in Manchester and the time was 4:30pm. I had half an hour to kill so I decide to take a walk.

Another girl exits the bus station and looks out across the street, she appears lost, I ask her where she's going...

340 Commercial St.

DEKA!

I walk that girl over to DEKA because she had a meeting with Dean, we talked on the way... she's in charge of girls program and wants to know of ways to incorporate her program and FIRST somehow. We exchanged information.

Lately I've had a "things happen for a reason" mentality, and this happened for a reason. This could possibly be my next big project, sounds like something I'd enjoy helping out with.

In addition, something presenters emphasized at the WIST forum:
"if something seems like a good opportunity, don't let it pass you by... you never know what might happen"


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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

This isn't exactly meeting FIRST people...but anyways..

There were about 6 students with 2 advisors in our van and we were going home after the rest of our team left on the bus from the Philadelphia Regional..
We stopped at one of those gas station/rest stop/McDonald's places. And there was a baseball team there. Coincidently that team was from one of the high schools (Can't remember the name cuz I have a terrible memory) that we had been spending the entire weekend with. Anyways..one of the baseball players was on FIRST but was unable to attend the competition so we got to talk to him about FIRST stuff...

It was pretty coooooooool
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Re: Meeting FIRST People in odd places

Yea, I was visitng a college last weekend, and when the tour guide mentioned their robotics program this girl asked if it had to do with US FIRST robotics. Needless to say I started a conversation with her.

Last year was actually our rookie year, and we had quite a few people that were going to school at Brown U. seek our team out and offer to help because they had a team at their highschool.

I don't wear my shirt around alot, but I did carry pictures of my robot with me for the vast majority of the summer : )
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I coach a cheerleading squad and when we went to nationals in disney last year i wore my wildstang shirt and some lady came up to me and started asking me about our robot... little did i know she was a coordinator for a FIRST regional ... good thing i only have great things to say about FIRST. That would be the wierdest place to ever see someone, who knew FIRST people have kids who are cheerleaders?

I also see people at Woodfield mall wandering around in team shirts. That is all the time though so it really isn't that awkward.
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