FIRST Frenzy 2004. Coolest team giveaway?

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by Steve W

Nobody like out flashing Canadian snowflakes?

Your what? I never saw those.... hmmm... I think a few kids on the team got them though... I'll have to check them out...

[Mark Pettit]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

No. The rules do state though that food items are dissallowed. Pins and other items are allowed to giveaway/trade. So as long as you don't give away food *cough* like some teams did this year *cough* then you are good to go.

In the Regional Events section of The FIRST Website under Site Info it says, "Do not give out any free products. . . ". While it mentions food/drinks specifically, I'm pretty sure that the word "any" covers everything else.

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by Mark Pettit

In the Regional Events section of The FIRST Website under Site Info it says, "Do not give out any free products. . . ". While it mentions food/drinks specifically, I'm pretty sure that the word "any" covers everything else.

candy, water, soft drinks, or fruit.
site info

In otherwords don't compete with the local vendors.
and don't create an increased cleaning situation for facilities.

At So Cal we clarified the site rules. They just didn't want any "hard" food brought in from the outside - no glass bottles, no fried chicken that would leave bones...

Turned out we could bring in "soft" foods - i.e. pizza, mcdonalds, subway, unless the crowd got so big and facilities felt the need to "tighten" the rules and scale back to no soft foods allowed in at all either.

So Cal "site info" uses the same words "Do not give out any free products..." and goes on to give examples of what they mean, edibles and drinkables.

Our team gave out nut n volts magazines, yo yo's, frisbees, rcu armbands...in addition to buttons.

[RoboMom]

We have a middle school spirit team that picked our giveaways and we let them decide. Little screwdrivers and stuff that is hard to describe but was very popular at the regionals-little putty things that make *splat* noises when you stick your finger in. Very middle school! My favorite though is our bright yellow, six sided "Robot on Board" signs. They are on the van right now.

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by RoboMom007

our bright yellow, six sided "Robot on Board" signs.

*curious* If you ever get a chance, post a pic?

Let's see... at nationals some people on our team had silly putty in Easter Eggs, except I don't know who they got it from. However, it amused me endlessly, so that was good.

I also liked 868's plastic callipers because they were cute...and the technokats keychain flashlights.

Hmm..someone gave out bubbles, too. Lots of fun stuff this year

By the way...if anyone ever wants a 469 banana I have a million extras...

Ellen

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Redhead Jokes

*curious* If you ever get a chance, post a pic?

Cheryl, remember those "Baby on Board" things that got put on the back window of your car? Replace "Baby" with "Robot" PM me with your address and I'll send you one. I'll see if I can get a pic.

[DCA Fan]

LOL I did see those...you're the team that was covered in Caution tape, right? I rather enjoyed team 1278's "Sleep Is Weak" stickers.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by DCA Fan

LOL I did see those...you're the team that was covered in Caution tape, right?

Not us with the caution tape but maybe some of our "Robot on Board" signs made it to the nationals, even if we didn't. Our look was definitely black tie this year....