What's The Coolest Thing A Team Can Give Out?

[skrussel]

Don't remember who, but last year at Nats, a team gave out mini limit switches. The real thing. They put them on little gold colored chains, and mine is now on my key chain. Love it! Play with it all the time.

I also like - best of all - blinking, flashing buttons!

Hey Adam.....email me, and I'll send you a FIRST bumper sticker. We're giving them out at the Sweet Repeat next October, but you can get a preview!

[Bcahn836]

I like the Mardi Gras beads my team gave out. They were sent from Gulfport, Mississippi, all the way to Maryland.

[Michael Corsetto]

My team handed out hand made shrinky-dink pins shaped as labcoats. WOOT to the 114 labcoats. Had a limited stock though, so we only gave 1 or 2 to each team.

[Nate Edwards]

My Team at Nationals gave out Fans. WE had over 300 of them and didn't come back with more then 2. We went up and around the stands handing the fans out to people cause it was hot ... we will bring them back next year and have more. We are still trying to find our one we attended for Sir Charles. We wrote all this stuff on the back of fan with some of his sayings, but then accidently handed it out.
Nate

[Rich Wong]

One of my favorite Team gifts is a 2003 ThunderChickens 217 waterbottle which I use every day in the gym.

[tckma]

Originally Posted by Gui Cavalcanti

This year 422 handed out "I drive my other car with JOYSTICKS" as a bumper sticker, but they were too small and tended to become one with a car's paint (read: personal experience). A very zen sticker if I say so myself.

Had the same experience with the 422 "bumper" sticker in 2002. ("last year," hm, I'm replying to an old message. That's what happens when you do a google search on "I drive my other car with joysticks" I suppose.)

I want one of those bumper stickers, except on a REAL bumper sticker.

[cortlyn]

this year we gave out a dvd to each team at the FLR event. it was about a 5-7 min video of our teams process of building. being a rookie team i thought this was great. during the finals, between matches, to our surprise they played our dvd on the big screen, and it was great!

[Iain McLeod]

hmm.... I know pat said it earlier, but we gave out silly putty last year...

I like:
-this little keychain with a robot made of random screws and nuts and stuff and I really don't remember which team it came from but it's so cool (and cute)
-the devil duckies (team #?)
-team 87's hacky sacks (and I don't even play hackysack, I just thing it's cool. It's right next to me now actually. It lives in the robotics room.)

[SURVIVORfan44]

Well I got GermX! to sponsor 616 this year so it was obvious that I was giving out Hand Sanitizer. Everyone knows about my huge phobia of....NORWALK!!! People who came up to me didn't leave without a squirt of hand sanitizer, or a little sample packet thing. It was interesting. I also put a bottle up where the napkins/food stuff was. The end of the day...the bottle was almost empty so it was great. Other than our wonderful hand sanitizer, the Robodog's buttons were neat. They had these unique square buttons. 1413 gave out these little hat looking things that were foamy.

[sdexp]

I doubt that anything is refused. The most appreciated giveaway of course is information (digital or hard) pertinent to the robotics events. Our team [1111] does that and will at this year's Chesapeake Regional.

[Koko Ed]

This year we went with flashing paws and they went like hotcakes (just like the Visioneers did). WHen we are down in Atlanta don't ask me for any. I don't have any. Go find one of our kids.

[i_am_Doug]

Originally Posted by Anton Abaya

i'll give a hug?

-anton

i second that motion

[krunch79prez]

the best which wasnt on the list is definitely team trading cards!!!! (we are doing that so collect and win an awesome prize at UCF, chicago, or atlanta)

[Shu Song]

The martians that team 494 were giving out were definitely really hot!

[Simon Strauss]

im a rookie so i dont know whats been given out in the past but we've been thinking about tucking the team bumper sticker under the winsheild wipers of all the cars in the parking lot at comp. visors might be cool and dispite what people might think buttons are always going to be a classic. oh yeah and i like the hug idea too.