Relationship building

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by Jverdon

My team went to iri this past weekend, the main reason we wanted to go was to build relationships. When at the competion i felt that no teams really tried to even talk to us, a few teams where very helpful to us when we had problems. But for the most part when we would try to talk with somone we where ignored, This kind of struck me as wierd. I know that we are from a very diffrent region and that not that many teams know us in the north but we where there to make friends and we made a few but in the long run I felt kind of like the black sheep team.

Any ways we had a blast and are going to try to come back next year. Thank you for having us. See you at nationals.

(I din not really know what forum to put this under)

I understand where you are coming from. Here is what we did before we went to IRI so that we had fun while we were at IRI.
1) Made friends - some over a year or two ago.
2) Made plans before we even got there.
3) Just go and talk to people when they are free - Most people in FIRST are very very friendly. See if you can hang out with them after the competition and stuff
4) This is very important - as a team have fun yourself and people will join.

Other than that all I can say is sorry for the way you felt. We too are a team not anywhere near the mid-west but still had fun.