Meeting FIRST People in odd places

[shamuwong]

Let's see...

I met a guy from Team 830 refing at Futureball Outdoor paintball park.

At the local grocery store I work at, two of my co-workers are on Team 1.

I met somebody working at Bass Pro Shop's Outdoor World on Team 47.

My next door neighbor used to mentor a FIRST team.

I'm always trying to meet FIRST people outside of FIRST. I wear my shirts everywhere, not only because they're the only shirts I have, but I'm always trying to flag fellow robotics people.

[Specialagentjim]

I always wear mine to airports. Ive found all sorts of people that way, Stang engineers, random people who've heard of it, sponsors. Cuts out weirdness when people can relate to you.

[jgannon]

I saw a guy wearing a team 22 shirt at Carnegie Mellon pre-college this summer. Also spotted a guy in a team 175 shirt at the airport in Atlanta when we were leaving from the championship. The assistant director of admissions at WPI (who e-mailed me because my counselor left some stuff out of my application... grr) was apparently involved with team 190 a couple of years ago.

[Ryan Albright]

Well i know this is a pretty old thread but i had met some FIRST people in a odd place last night. I was working and i just gotten back to citywalk dock when one of the other captains told me that i should go talk to these girls they do robotics and wanted to know who i participated with. It turns out they are with team 190, so we chatted a few minutes and then they had to leave for there hotel. Hope to see them in nats

[some young guy]

i work with a guy on happague

walking through downtown new york city i saw a man wearing a first robotics shirt. i said hi and we talked for a lil about the new game....forgot his name and where he was from...i think it was chris

in a bathroom at my local bowling ally