GRT(192) Pen Pals

[Anusha]

Hey Everyone!
I know that many teams have heard about our pen pal program but I also know that many haven't. So I'm starting this thread to...I guess, recruit people. The program basically is a way for other teams to communicate with ours. This way, both teams benefit from learning about each other and what they do on a yearly basis as well as just making a friend. This year, the program turned out to be a success and we decided that we wanted to continue it. If you are interested, then email me or just reply back to this. I will email you once I figure out who you will be corresponding with. Thank you!

Anusha Thalapaneni
GRT Outreach Leader

[Vivelation]

Alright, to elaborate:

We started this during the build period and it worked. So basically, we email other teams, and our members continue writing to members of different teams. Then, at competition, we were able to meet those people who we talked to, and I just lost my train of thought. It's not a dating service, it's not really a pen pal thing, it's more of a thing where we can meet new people (make new friends, however cheesy that sounds), and uh, meet more new people.

So for example, during the build period, we would comment on the status of the robot (i.e. oh we're gonna start wiring Fri, or, we're having issues w/our arm), or animation, etc. And then there were times when we (people from other teams and GRT people) would just talk about random things (i.e. weird fashion, college plans)

I guess I might as well mention some teams we've been corresponding with (and met at regionals/nats)... 1097 Jesuit, 695 Beachwood, 696 Clark Magnet, 647 Cyberwolves, 365 MOE. Other teams we've contacted are 294 Beach Cities and 245 Adams.

sorry for that being so long, but hopefully that clears some things up and explains a little bit more. (if you're interested, you can contact us through PMs, AIM, email, or reply to this thread too) email: athalapaneni@gunnrobotics.org, vlin@gunnrobotics.org

[greencactus3]

hey. im kinda interested. only is this email or real envelope style mail. if its email, sure let me in. but if its the other kinda, no, sorry, im too lazy for that..

[Anusha]

I guess I forgot to mention that it would be preferable to contact people through IM or email. I doubt people are willing to take the time to send letters in envelopes and pay $.37 to send each time.

Being Pen Pals with 192 is really cool, it has definitely been a worthwhile and fun experience for everyone on my team who participates - THANKS GRT!

[Korbin]

This sounds great! I know that I have been doing a similar thing with a few other teams, unofficially, and I would love to get to know GRT more, or any other team, and team members. My e-mail is korbinkorbinkorbin@yahoo.com and probably the more convenient way is to instant message my screen name is: korbin1011
or PM me...

[Lisa Perez]

Count me in =): AIM.. TomatoWentSPLAT

[George A.]

Count me in too, I'm always willing to broaden my horizons. IM=goldensnubmonkey. Email= perfectsurvivor@hotmail.com

[JakeGallagher]

I'm in.
AIM = wolfhoundNH
MSN = wolfhound2001@hotmail.com
ICQ = 272342530
yahoo! = mosrael134@yahoo.com
Email = wolfhoundnh@comcast.net

[Steve Howland]

Sign me up
email: Diobsidian at yahoo dot com
AIM Howl571
-Diobsidian

[MOEmaniac]

You can sign me up.

AIM: Lacrosser802
Yahoo: Lacrosser802
Email: Lacrosser802@comcast.net

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Vivelation

(if you're interested, you can contact us through PMs, AIM, email, or reply to this thread too) email: athalapaneni@gunnrobotics.org, vlin@gunnrobotics.org

You know, I bet you will get lots of good responds if you send a message out to the WRRF community list. Lots of bay area team members know each other already, and it could boost your network by quite a bit. I for one would be interested in e-mailing some of the memebrs on teams around here, that is if I am not too old for your program.

Just e-mail me through my member profile and I can reply with my real e-mail address.

*edit* Just a suggestion to the rest of you, it might not be too wise to post your e-mail address in its bare form on these forum. There might be bots out there looking for them. At least change them to XXXX at XXXX dot com. *edit*

[Mike M.]

Count me in too.
AIM: patriots656
EMAIL: maverickf18@comcast.net

[Bernie]

hhhhheeeyyyy,

hi, my name's bernie and i'm a pen pal-aholic,
hi Anusha, hi Viv,
yeah, what about that texas team, they never talked to me
must be the green, it must've intiminated them or something, it does that

ANYWAY, if someone as wacky as you guys wants a pen pal, count me in
even though i'm already in, but i do have more time to do stuff with

pen pals. pen pals are cool. i like pen pals. yeah new duble syllable formula
even though i think i already did that when i created "bernie trying to talk like Viv"
put more nonsequitor statements bellow.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Count me in!

AIM: fresh frolic
EMAIL: abreezyera@yahoo.com