Meeting FIRST People in odd places

[MisterX]

Sadly all summer I have been away as a camp counselor over the summer at a boy scout camp so I havn't been able to check up on the site (its been too long). However, while at camp it was about half way through the summer before I realized that during one of the nasty t-storm a fellow counselor was wearing a FIRST jacket and for the rest of the summer we would always talk about FIRST in our spare time!

I was at Purdue the other day and I saw a kid wearing a 2002 OCCRA shirt, but I didnt bother to ask him what team he was from..

The other time this summer I saw someone was when I was in Indianapolis at a mall I saw some kid wearing a 2003 IRI shirt

[Kristina]

I was at the In-n-Out right by UCLA's campus and saw a kid whose team I made a call against when I was ref'ing at the Chatsworth scrimmage. Though he was wearing his team tshirt, I would have recognized him anyway because I remember him not being too happy about being penalized. Apparently the team is located +1 hour away from my school so I don't know what he was doing there but I found it funny (not to mention my friends also found it really funny I was hiding from him...hey, he seemed like the type who would hold a grudge about the DQ).

Btw, all of you people who live outside of California and don't have In-N-Out are soooo deprived.

[Cactus_Robotics]

Originally Posted by Kristina

Btw, all of you people who live outside of California and don't have In-N-Out are soooo deprived.

We have them in Az now too thank god for In-N-Out!

[Cactus_Robotics]

I saw head referee Ian Lao at a claim jumper in AZ a week before the championship

[DevilChild]

A little while ago, I was at the library, when I saw a guy wearing our team hat. So I snuck up behind him and proceeded with "GIVE ME A D!!" He gave me a D, alright, and we almost got kicked out of the library. But we ended up in the library cafe discussing team goings-on for like an hour. It was awesome to meet an alum who was back in the area.

[Specialagentjim]

I found a bunch of FloridaFirst people at a local community pool recently...


Oh wait, that was the Mayhem Day 1 Field. Oh, and I propose we rename the field archimedes in honors of the water displaced!

[Dancin103]

Ok...This is a little weird if you ask me...but, I was in (I think) North Carolina, coming home to PA from our vacation in Florida. And I had my chairman's award jaket on, and I was washing my hands when some woman comes up to me and says, I have been meaning to e-mail your team to congratulate you on you teams success this year, and I was thinking to my self ...Who is this woman and how does she know FIRST and where did she come from???...lol Apparently, she was with a Michigan team or at least she used to be!!!lol
So, that is my story of meeting FIRST people in odd places!!!lol

[Pin Man]

Well honestly I did not meet the person but when my family and I drove down to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on the last full week of july through the first week of August we stopped at a restaursant called T-Bones... When I got out of the car I noticed that the SUV next to us had some that autodesk passed out hanging from the rearview mirror... I went to the back of the SUV and saw a team bumber stick it looked like... I forget where the licence plate was from but I bet it was someone that was at nationals...

[OneAngryDaisy]

I met one of 357's members while taking the SAT at good ol' Wissahickon..

[Stephanie]

a team mate and i were taking the SATs at another high school in the district. we bumped into a member from 115 (i believe) wearing a t-shirt from championship 2002. there was a WRRF meeting later that day, however, the 115 guy said he wasn't planning on attending.

in the beginning of august, my boyfriend and i went to play laser tag, and ran into "aonic" of team 1072.

at SVR 2003, i noticed someone on the leland team who looked familiar. upon speaking to eachother, we realized that we went to the same church, but had never really met (it's a big church...).

[Melissa Nute]

When I went to National Latin Convention this year at Trinity University, I wore my robotics shirt one of the days. I had a decent amount of people come up to me about it and we started talking. To think...Robotics geeks are also Latin Nerds...

[Vin211]

I saw someone part of FIRST in a casino.

[Katie Reynolds]

On the plane to Nationals this past year, I noticed the lady across the aisle from me had a FIRST business card sticking out of the folder she was carrying. Looking closer, I noticed she was wearing a FIRST vest. When the plane landed, one of my mentors and I started talking to her and it turned out that she was one of the FLL game coordinators/planners/whatever-you-want-to-call-'ems. We wound up talking about the possibility of my team hosting an edu-robotics competition sometime in the future. It was cool.

- Katie

[miketwalker]

I was walking around Disney, and someone was wearing one of the shirts they were selling at nationals at Epcot.. so I started talking to him, found out he was a mentor on a team somewhere in the mid-west, and was on vacation in Florida... I thought it was pretty cool.