Meeting FIRST People in odd places

[Team1726Nerds]

I met parents of one of the Rhode Warriors (from rhode island) all the way out here in southern arizona at an art festival

[Daniel Morse]

While I was at St. Paul's Advanced Studies Program this summer (A summer program for talented NH students) I met 5 or 6 people who were in FIRST. Plus, my teacher for the summer was the coach of St. Pauls FIRST Team. I know it is academic related, but it is outside FIRST, so I suppose it counts.

[Kim Masi]

I found out at a family reunion that my cousin in NH is involved on the Keene FIRST team...and while I was at a girl scout gold award meeting, I met a girl from team 176 who was also going for her gold! what a small world

edit: and I didnt realize that the person above me is on his team! it really is a small world!

[hallk]

I was wearing a team shirt while camping in Yellowstone. I was at a "ranger lesson" and saw some other robogeeks from michigan. The ranger was wondering why we were all sticking around so late and we it explained it. Turns out the ranger was in FIRST in high school, too!

[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

[StephLee]

I wasn't there when this happened, but some of my team members told me that someone from 007 was at our hotdog stand fundraiser outside of Wal-Mart...apparently he was on vacation.

[aztech75]

heres a good 1,

i met the driver from 1685 2 day when we were put in the same room for SAT testing. thats about as random as it gets

[eatnumber1]

Originally Posted by 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...

um... yea, that was me, so ditto on that story