Meeting FIRST People in odd places

[KelliV]

I coach a cheerleading squad and when we went to nationals in disney last year i wore my wildstang shirt and some lady came up to me and started asking me about our robot... little did i know she was a coordinator for a FIRST regional ... good thing i only have great things to say about FIRST. That would be the wierdest place to ever see someone, who knew FIRST people have kids who are cheerleaders?

I also see people at Woodfield mall wandering around in team shirts. That is all the time though so it really isn't that awkward.

[shamuwong]

Let's see...

I met a guy from Team 830 refing at Futureball Outdoor paintball park.

At the local grocery store I work at, two of my co-workers are on Team 1.

I met somebody working at Bass Pro Shop's Outdoor World on Team 47.

My next door neighbor used to mentor a FIRST team.

I'm always trying to meet FIRST people outside of FIRST. I wear my shirts everywhere, not only because they're the only shirts I have, but I'm always trying to flag fellow robotics people.

[Specialagentjim]

I always wear mine to airports. Ive found all sorts of people that way, Stang engineers, random people who've heard of it, sponsors. Cuts out weirdness when people can relate to you.

[jgannon]

I saw a guy wearing a team 22 shirt at Carnegie Mellon pre-college this summer. Also spotted a guy in a team 175 shirt at the airport in Atlanta when we were leaving from the championship. The assistant director of admissions at WPI (who e-mailed me because my counselor left some stuff out of my application... grr) was apparently involved with team 190 a couple of years ago.

[Ryan Albright]

Well i know this is a pretty old thread but i had met some FIRST people in a odd place last night. I was working and i just gotten back to citywalk dock when one of the other captains told me that i should go talk to these girls they do robotics and wanted to know who i participated with. It turns out they are with team 190, so we chatted a few minutes and then they had to leave for there hotel. Hope to see them in nats

[some young guy]

i work with a guy on happague

walking through downtown new york city i saw a man wearing a first robotics shirt. i said hi and we talked for a lil about the new game....forgot his name and where he was from...i think it was chris

in a bathroom at my local bowling ally

[finni]

I was at a Marching Band leadership camp about 4 years ago now and I was wearing my t-shirt and this kid came up and commented on my shirt that he recognized the first logo and we got to talking about first and how great of a program it is and all. I can’t remember were he was from now or even his name but I just thought that it was cool that first has the power to bring total strangers together at completely unrelated events.

[Jeff Waegelin]

Wow... it's been a while since I started this thread

Anyways, I just thought I'd add that I've run into a few FIRSTers again this year. One was a student on the dining hall staff at my dorm; she was on a team from Fenton... I don't recall which. The other lives on my floor, and was a member of Team 74.

[Simon Strauss]

my cousin is on team 1257 but that doesn't really count.

[BandChick]

I met some kid in my dining hall, but I might have posted about that already. He was on 381, another team that competes at Jersey.

[KORN_lover_2007]

I met some people on a team in the town close to us at a hair salon that my mom goes to. It was cool because I was bored wating for my mom to get her hair cut, so I talked to them for a while. They were getting free tanning passes to raffle off for their team.

[Nica F.]

i was at my stepfather's friend's party, and i started talking to someone around my age and when i asked him what he did the weekend before he said he was at San Diego for a robotics scrimage, which was awkward because i was there too..lol

[Vince lau]

i met a member from team 180 on a PSP forum

[kborer22]

i was at 6 flags geat adventure for our physics final waiting to go on the new roller coaster, kingda-ka, which by the way was well worth the 3 hour wait, but i met a few kids from the pi-oneers(1676) A few of us were wearing out "I <3 autonomous mode" shirts." But we got alot of comments just from ppl who saw out shirts, they want to know what we are all about

[Jeff Waegelin]

My dad was renting a powerwasher at a Home Depot in Shelby Twp. a couple weekends ago, and the guy working the tool rental section was a Lawrence Tech student who was on a FIRST team in high school. I don't remember exactly which team he was from, but I think it was 217.