Meeting FIRST People in odd places

Standing at the receptionist's desk, waiting to have blood drawn...

that was one of the oddest moments of my life because I was like...wha...you work here??

[Weightmn]

We just caught up with the member of another local team at music lessons. Another was shopping at the mall- he was on our team from about 5 years back and STILL wearing his team shirt- WAY cool!

[Alex Pelan]

Funny this thread resurfaces now...I just got back from my haircut, and I saw a FIRST parent there. I was wearing my shirt, and i sat down and someone told me that his son and daughter had both been on the team. Coincidence that this thread comes up at the same time as this event...or conspiracy ?

[Meredith343MiM]

I was getting on a roller coaster once at Six Flags over Georgia this past summer. I wore my team shirt that day for no apparant reason... but all of a sudden I heard this girl who was still in line scream "Metal In Motion!, I know you guys!"... turns out she was from team 1002, the CircuitRunners. I thought that was cool.

What is it with Marching Band and robot dorks? I notice this becoming a common trend... (I'm a band geek too )

[Kris Verdeyen]

While it might not be in the same spirit as the rest of the thread, I found out that my cousin was on his HS team in Fort Wayne (1022). I thought it was neat that we had both settled upon this independently.

[BandChick]

Originally Posted by Meredith343MiM

What is it with Marching Band and robot dorks? I notice this becoming a common trend... (I'm a band geek too )

Ahaha, I have noticed that myself! There is a girl in my marching band who is an alum of 87! The only reason I found out was because she wore her team shirt one of the days of rehearsal. Turned out, she knew who I was already XD

[Chris Fultz]

I was at a church youth camp (Greensburg), about an hour away from home (Indianapolis), and had to run to a local grocery store for some evening snacks. I had my 234 t-shirt on, and ran into a girl from team 1020 (Muncie)who lived in the area and was there shopping.

[Dave Campbell]

I am training for a triathlon to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's "Team-in-Training" and met a former mentor from a Colorado team who is also doing the same tri.

[ahecht]

I just had a job interview with W.L.Gore where the interviewer saw that I had FIRST on my resume, and got very excited because he had been a student on one of the 1992 teams. We spent the first half of the interview just talking about FIRST.

[Ashley Weed]

I have ran into a few after I moved down here to State College. Once in a while I will be at a bus stop and notice someone with a FIRST shirt on, and we will chat. In my complex alone, I believe there are 5 of us. I stick out like a sore thumb on the Segway, and FIRSTer's usually approach me.

[XtremeEagle04]

I was at a local comic shop and ran into the mentor from TnT. He was there playing a trading card game with his son.

[AdamHeard]

I saw a mentor for team 330 (he was wearing his shirt) walking out of the Dollar Tree (a local thrift shop) and into VONS about 2 weeks ago, but he was gone before I even was done parking so I couldn't said hi....

[Nica F.]

i was at Six Flags Magic Mountain,and i saw a robotics shirt in line for Scream waaay ahead of me, just to make sure, i ran up and read the shirt more closely, tapped the girl on the back, and was like," WOW youre on a FIRST team too?!?!?!" and she was like, " uh my brother is" oh well.

haha.


& i was at my design summer program, when this girl asked for my myspace, she walked into class the next day and said," WE'RE BOTH IN ROBOTICS, that is SOO COOL" .i thought it was pretty funny

[Alexa Stott]

I was at iD Tech Camp last week, taking the Programming v2.0 course for programming in C++ and/or Java. There was a kid in my class from 293. His name was Chris, I believe.

I was a bit surprised I didn't meet some more people from FIRST there, but it really opens yours eyes to how many high schools there are that still don't have teams.

[KelliV]

OK so maybe it isn't really a FIRST person but it is kinda like one. My Science Professor at Columbia has a grey ponytail. Of course he is nothing like Woodie (my teacher kinda scares me and my fellow classmates) but anyone with a grey ponytail is awesome in my eyes.