Meeting FIRST People in odd places

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by AlbertW
Vivek and I (both Harker Robotics people) saw Jim and 2 other (presumably 258) FIRST people at Valley Faire.

Heh. Actually, that was Bill.

[AlbertW]

i meant to say that. sorry. haha. all of you are so confusing...

::goes and hides in corner::

[Matt Leese]

Originally posted by FotoPlasma
Heh. Actually, that was Bill.

At least I'm not the only one who can't tell you two apart.

Matt

[Nick Seidl]

Originally posted by Ashley Weed
hmm.... as I think I mentioned in another thread.. oddest place.. was in the local Hooters.

Must have been one of the engineers that used to be on 448. Whenever drove to competitions, they'd even bust out the Hooters bobble head for the dashboard.

[Madison]

Originally posted by Matt Leese
At least I'm not the only one who can't tell you two apart.

Matt

Does that make me the only one who thinks they look nothing alike?

[Yan Wang]

Hm... saw Patrick, Vicki, and Lara coming out of bailey hall @ Cornell after a talk by Dave Barry Good stuff...

[Greg Perkins]

I met a bunch of cooridinators for RIVERRAGE at a local carshow...they were on the now defunct Blue Lightning team from manchester.

its really cool how many people there are out there!!

[dubious elise]

I'm not too sure if this counts, but I met Neha Batra of 1345 three years ago at a summer camp at Northwestern University, before either of us were involved in FIRST, and we got started talking again just recently via the forums

[Anarkissed]

Lets see, I met some TechnoKats at a christian music festival in kentucky, it was pretty cool. I wear my FIRST crew shirt whenever I go anywhere and I usually run into at least one FIRSTer. We are a secret cult. =)

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by M. Krass
Does that make me the only one who thinks they look nothing alike?

Heh. You can probably count both Bill and me in on that, too. You aren't alone.

[Bill Gold]

Originally posted by M. Krass
Does that make me the only one who thinks they look nothing alike?

Yeah, what Jim said. We used to possibly pass off as twins, but there are very distinct differences in our appearances now.

[ebmonon36]

I met some FIRST members at a callout meeting for some robotics thing...oh wait it was a FIRST callout. Okay..that was my attempt at being funny right now.
Eric

[SarahB]

I’ve met all sorts of FIRST people in random places. Over spring break, I went to Puerto Rico. Our plane home was late in arriving so I started talking to some of the other people that were waiting. I started talking about FIRST, and it turns out one of the kids was on team 869. Then another time I was at the King of Prussia mall in PA and I met a kid from team 371. And this summer at smart camp(that sounds kind of geeky…) I met an alumnus from team 571, as well as students from 293 and 708. Together we ended up convincing a bunch of kids to join their schools’ FIRST teams. It was fun .

[Wetzel]

Originally posted by M. Krass
Does that make me the only one who thinks they look nothing alike?

No, they look rather diffrent. Bill has this thing that sticks out from his forhead. (Mayhaps that why they call him Bill)

I don't think I've run into FIRST people that I didn't know in wierd places, but I do run into people I know.

I did run into Wailua's robot at the Honolulu airport last summer, but it was in a display case in the terminal. It was very random.


Wetzel

[Aignam]

I saw a kid in Walmart wearing a FIRST shirt once. He didn't look like he was having the best day, though, so I used my 'finer judgment' and kept walking. I also bumped into the Team 303 advisor in the local Barnes and Noble a few months back.