People i want to meet at the Championships '05

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by nobrakes8

anybody going to RIT next year..

I just graduated from RIT.
Nice school.

[Alex Pelan]

I think a better question to ask would be: who don't I want to meet? I've never met a FIRST person in person that I haven't liked. So I (or anyone else) can try not to miss anyone, would anyone be up for a standardized name tag system? I know this has been discussed before and people have done such things, but never has such a broad undertaking been really used by a lot of people (to my knowledge.) Here's a concept I whipped up in 10 minutes, brought to you by MS Paint and PrintScreen.

[Courtneyb1023]

anyone who wants to meet me..especially Ary 108, Jake 134, Kyle 45 and some other people

[Erin Rapacki]

Originally Posted by Alex Pelan

I think a better question to ask would be: who don't I want to meet? I've never met a FIRST person in person that I haven't liked. So I (or anyone else) can try not to miss anyone, would anyone be up for a standardized name tag system? I know this has been discussed before and people have done such things, but never has such a broad undertaking been really used by a lot of people (to my knowledge.) Here's a concept I whipped up in 10 minutes, brought to you by MS Paint and PrintScreen.

Or howabout a standard button we could wear on our shirts? Something simple, an orange background with black text saying "CD poster" (only chiefdelphi ppl will know what CD means). Don't put your name on the tag though, the idea is to have other CD posters approach you and ask you what your name is to start the conversation. What do you think?

Idea: A basket of these buttons could be outside the Team 47 pit. They won't be actively given away but everyone who posts on CD will know to grab one when they arrive in Atlanta.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Erin Rapacki

Or howabout a standard button we could wear on our shirts? Something simple, an orange background with black text saying "CD poster" (only chiefdelphi ppl will know what CD means). Don't put your name on the tag though, the idea is to have other CD posters approach you and ask you what your name is... what do you think?

*Guniess accent

Brillant!

[Alex Pelan]

Originally Posted by Erin Rapacki

Or howabout a standard button we could wear on our shirts? Something simple, an orange background with black text saying "CD poster" (only chiefdelphi ppl will know what CD means). Don't put your name on the tag though, the idea is to have other CD posters approach you and ask you what your name is to start the conversation. What do you think?

I think that idea is just as good, if not better than mine...it'll encourage people who might be shy of face-to-face encounters to approach a person. So, rather than having 150 "I saw John-V-Neun" user titles, we can have 150 "I met JVN" user titles . My idea was simply to have a common way to identify a chief delphi poster, and any way that gets done is good.

[Steve W]

I got one of those scolling name tags. Mine will say "Steve W CD Rocks"


Come say Hi

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Erin Rapacki

Or howabout a standard button we could wear on our shirts? Something simple, an orange background with black text saying "CD poster" (only chiefdelphi ppl will know what CD means). Don't put your name on the tag though, the idea is to have other CD posters approach you and ask you what your name is to start the conversation. What do you think?

Idea: A basket of these buttons could be outside the Team 47 pit. They won't be actively given away but everyone who posts on CD will know to grab one when they arrive in Atlanta.

One problem-Who's paying for said buttons?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Erin Rapacki

Idea: A basket of these buttons could be outside the Team 47 pit. They won't be actively given away but everyone who posts on CD will know to grab one when they arrive in Atlanta.

Thats like 9000 buttons! (ok, 4600 active in the past 3 months, but still) I like the 'print your own' idea a bit better. It's a bit more creative, and I'm guessing the Chief Delphi checkbook agrees, too.

[Kyle Love]

Here's an idea for those of you who went to the Boilermaker regional or anyone who has an extra lanyard...put a CD name tag in instead of the Boilermaker one. Maybe put your name, team and all that stuff....what do you guys think?

[Steve W]

Erin is single, female and wealthy. Maybe she would like to shop for some and buy enough for everyone. Thanks Erin!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by JakeGallagher

The Brothers Shaw
Tom Bottiglieri (though I did meet him at BAE)

Cheeseburgers!?!

There's so many people I want to meet. I've already met tons of new people on the first leg of my Tour de FIRST, but there still tons more.

So, here we go. I find it better to go through teams by number so I dont miss anyone.

Dorienne Plait (007)
Jim (33)
Kyle Love (45)
Andy Baker (45)
Brandon Martus (47)
Dr. Joe (47)
Travis Hoffman (48)
Tony (56)
Anyone on 60
Anyone on 71
Cory (100) Again..
Arefin Bari (108)
The person who runs soap108.com, I would like to shake his hand. (108)
Raul (111)
Dave Flowerday (111)
Courtney (111)
Dave Lavery (116)
Lil' Lavery (116)
Jeff Wetzel (116)
Joe (121)
Erin (125)
DAN CHASE! (126)
Dave Kelso (131)
Karthik (too many teams to remember)
Tytus (179)
Amanda (179)
Gary Dillard (180)
Steve W (188)
Koko Ed (191)
Tom Bottiglieri (195)
Paul Copioli (217)
Henry (222)
Jay (229)
Joel (229)
devicenull (230)
Leslie (233)
Gabe (233)
Kit Gerhart (233)
Ryan (234)
..dont even get me started on 237..
Anyone on 254
Joe Ross (330)
Genia (461)
Lisa Perez (573)
Sanddrag (696)
Billfred (1293)

As you can see, I got lazy after 234..

But I also want to meet up with all of the people I met this year!

[AmyPrib]

Originally Posted by Kyle45

Here's an idea for those of you who went to the Boilermaker regional or anyone who has an extra lanyard...put a CD name tag in instead of the Boilermaker one. Maybe put your name, team and all that stuff....what do you guys think?

Yep, that should take care of about.... 1000+ students... if they're all going to Atlanta..

[Koko Ed]

Why not do a variation of the trading card idea and make some sort of nametag template that is easy to edit in Photoshop. Then everyone can easily have thir own ID and Cheifdelphi doesn't have to file for bankruptcy.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Why not do a variation of the trading card idea and make some sort of nametag template that is easy to edit in Photoshop. Then everyone can easily have thir own ID and Cheifdelphi doesn't have to file for bankruptcy.

This seems to be the best way to do this. Many kids are on spring break this week (cough... Kyle45... cough), and one or two of them could pull together a design pretty quickly.

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That's why they have a webhug. So your CD dreams come true.

Great... rub it in, Ed. I can't make it this year, due to my commitment to the FIRST Robotics Conference. As an attendee of the original webhug in '99, I am officially on protest. Maybe someone can make one of those life size cutouts of me and bring it to the webhug... that would be cool, and frighteningly alarming at the same time.

Andy B.