Meeting FIRST People in odd places

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by MConte05

I was working at Six Flags St. Louis the other week, ride operations on The Boss, and I saw a kid wearing a simple FIRST shirt, didn't manage to ask him what team or where he was from.....

I think you were the guy I saw back in July when I was up staying at my brother's house... I was wearing a yellow Mayhem @ The Museum t-shirt.

Small world.

[Arkorobotics]

Met one at a bowl alley at a really late time once.

[LightWaves1636]

not yet for me though but I'm hoping, it's kinda hard since my team is the only FIRST team in my school district and I don't get out of the county much.

[dubious elise]

Well, I'm not sure if this counts, but it sure comes close...

My parents were at a wedding this weekend and brought home a 'program' of sorts from the wedding that had little blurbs about the wedding party. As I glanced through it, one name popped out:Emily Pease described as a robot builder from Boston! I gasped and immediately went on ChiefDelphi and sure enough, I found an awfully similar gal that my mom had indeed remembered meeting at the wedding.

[lukevanoort]

Jamaica. We were on a cruise, and while wandering around a Margaritaville restaurant, a woman noticed my Dad's 587 shirt and asked us about it, if I remember correctly she was thinking about getting involved. My memory isn't the best in the world, she might have already been involved and wondering about us. I also saw someone in a FIRST volunteer shirt at Watercountry, USA in Virginia, but I never talked to them.

[irishninja]

I was wearing my team shirt at a music session hosted at a church. This guy walked up to me and he has been on of the teams at the NY Regionals the previous day.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I have a pair of ex-FIRST members in my class. One is an ex-X-Cat from last year Sakath our scout mistress in our theater production seminar(we're doing a comedia play "the Servant of Two Masters" she is part of the mask making team, I'm on props. For some reason the professor is making a big deal about a six-week production schedule. ) and in my Wednesday class I have a past member of Rush robotics Zachary Wheeler who was on the team back in '97. He beamed with much pride when I informed him that his old team had won a regional Chairman's award. There was another kid in my class who knew an awful lot about FIRST. I'll have to grill him further on what team he was affilaited with.

I just remembered he was from 116 and says he was in the A&E special. I'll have to look closely now.

I also recently spotted a kid (hard to really call him a kid since he had a full beard) shopping at the Wegamns in Henrietta in a 1403 shirt (probably not all that surprising since RIT kids shop that Wegmans alot and alot of FIRSTers end up at RIT).

[orelinde]

now keep in mind i am an adult parent.

While at the meat market I was stanidng in the checkout line and someone taps me on the sholder and says "I got spirit yes I do, I got spirit how bout you!" knowing this standard greeting in our area I turned around and without thinking scream out at top of my lungs the return greeting. Everyone in the store turned to stare at me. I left rather quickly after that. Turns out I had more spirit or at least much louder lungs

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by orelinde

now keep in mind i am an adult parent.

While at the meat market I was stanidng in the checkout line and someone taps me on the sholder and says "I got spirit yes I do, I got spirit how bout you!" knowing this standard greeting in our area I turned around and without thinking scream out at top of my lungs the return greeting. Everyone in the store turned to stare at me. I left rather quickly after that. Turns out I had more spirit or at least much louder lungs

Ah yes. Us FIRSTers must remember that outside of the season we must remember to send our inner child to the corner for a timeout.

[santosh]

A couple of friends and I were buying gift card for our mentor at BEST BUY and the cashier was from the Kell robotics team.

One of the students on our team has an uncle who is a mentor on 832. She never told us this...

We gave a presentation to the "The Top 40 Business Leaders of Cobb County" and it turned out one of the businessmen had a daughter at our school.

[Jeff Waegelin]

A friend of mine from my old high school team (201), is doing a NASA internship this summer in Maryland. The girl she's rooming with there is a former student from team 859 from Morgantown, WV, with whom my team won the Buckeye Regional in 2002. I thought that was pretty neat...

[=Martin=Taylor=]

FIRST ought to have a secret handshake like the Masons.

That would make it easier to identify people...

[Daisy]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

FIRST ought to have a secret handshake like the Masons.

That would make it easier to identify people...

Like spelling "geek" in sign language?

It was after the Philly regional, and my dad and I were seeing the Liberty Bell, I turned around and there was a 157 mentor. The funny thing was that he was the programmer we worked with in our alliance.

[RoboticsPhyre]

Jim Thorpe, PA. Paintballing. Odd eh? My boyfriend on 25 had invited me to go camping, white water rafting, and paintballing with them and I got the ok from my mom. When we got there (all 17 of us), we got about 5 others added onto our team. During the second game, I was paired up with two guys to cover an area.

After that, we (me, my bf, and the two boys) kept pairing up to cover areas. In the second to last match, I got injured so had to sit out and one of the two boys was also injured, so we walked to the side and began talking. For some odd reason, I mentioned FIRST and he said that he was on team 1230, as was the other guy. One is a senior, the other a college frosshie. After the last match, my boyfriend came back and so did the other guy.

We had managed to find the only two other FIRST geeks in the town of Jim Thorpe, PA. 25, 1089, and 1230 were the teams at this meeting.. We all started exchanging CD names and AIM and BAM! a nice friendship and possibly a nice paintball team ensued...

[Aaron D.]

I met jimmy and Dan from 484 at a boy scouts leadership camp