My wife and I were on Cyber Blue 234 together in HS. I think her experience on the team helped her realize why I had to commit the way I did during this season as a mentor.
A little bit of Frog Force history: Around 2000-2001, Mr. Gee of 67-fame took an art teacher to a regional as a first date. That teacher, Mrs. Harvey, went on to start 503 (Team F.A.T.E. at the time) and marry Mr. Gee, who later joined on as a mentor for her new team.
Marriages help form dominating Michigan teams? Sweet. Guess we need someone from 103 to marry someone from 25 in NJ XD
If they had kids, they would be a super-breed of robot builders and drivers, and would win dozens of awards per season.
I was just married in November and I have to say that Robotics has been a great experience for the both of us as I have brought her in as a mentor for Team 399. The team has posted the following in a mentor bio for her, “Sylvia Haro, vowed in sickness and in health, but was unaware of the unspoken commitment to Eagle Robotics. She has found a place with the media team assisting with website and database programming. Her legal experience has greatly helped us with our technical writing…” Needless to say, our team gets a kick out of our marriage and makes sure to bring up the fact that I need to ask her permission before going on robotics trips or making sure that I bring her along :eek: lol.
When we were dating I was living in Wentzville and she lived in Webster Groves…and I was mentoring the Wentzville team that was been filmed for the PBS documentary…Webster Groves was 1 hour away from Wentzville.
Then next season a rookie team needed help near Webster Groves, 10 minutes from her house…
The rest is history :
Not quite the same story, but the first official “date” that my now wife and I had was the OCCRA championship in Michigan in 2000. We spent most of the “date” nowhere near each other, as I was there to work at the event, and she got volunteered to work in the pit area.
I think just as many spouses look forward to kick-off. “Yeah, he/she won’t be under foot for awhile.”
I believe this thread has gone quite long enough, it’s time for the obligatory
“daaaaaawwwwwwwwww”
Resurrection, I know, but here’s another one. Another special moment in a BMR unusually full of them.
I was there, and remember seeing that, but I had no idea they were using it as an example for alliance seedings too. That’s adorable. 
Fun thread (if somewhat an example of threadomancy)…
I’m not married to a FIRST-er, but I’m married to FIRST. The morning after my wedding to my lovely wife, I was on a bus headed to our local kickoff. It’s all about priorities, you see…
Betsy Smith and Charles Baxter are alumni of team 1741. She is currently in her fourth year mentoring 1741, and he has mentored team 1747 with me for the past three years. Both are fantastic people and fantastic mentors. I really couldn’t have seen this proposal go any other way.
It was kind of amusing when in Smoky Mountain, a 1741 student was being a VIP guide for Dean Kamen. He recognized the number, since they had won the Chairman’s Award at BMR, and someone had mentioned to him that a member from that team had gotten engaged. He asked to meet Charlie and Betsy. Charlie was pretty ecstatic about that.
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Snapped this outside kickoff a couple of years ago. Seems one of our alumni turned mentor delayed his honeymoon so he could be there.
At the Bayou Regional this year, an alumni/mentor of Team 364 Fusion proposed to his girlfriend during the award ceremony. They had been on the robotics team together in high school. The field crew helped him mask it as the “Continuing Partnership Award” and when she came down to accept it on the field, he got down on one knee. She told him that she “Graciously accepts”. It wasn’t my team, but it was one of the cutest things Team 1912 had ever seen.
That is made of awesomesauce.
Yeah, I love that guy. :’)
My wife and I did not meet in FIRST, but we both went to Kettering University because of FIRST.
We met the first day of freshman orientation, during the math placement exam study session of all places. 3 weeks later we were dating…5 years later we were married.
I was on (and now mentor) team 85 (Built on Brains) and my wife was a founding member of team 1023 (Bedford Express). I overheard a conversation between a few of the students that said “our teams are married.”
Of course we are! 1023 also has another marriage that started on the team…Courtney and Brian…
I got engaged this build season, but not to a FIRST’er. It was during the build season though, and I did have a slightly robotics-style ‘spin’ in the proposal.
We started thinking about a date for the wedding, and she threw out mid-April. Heh. I pushed for mid-May so we wound up with Mother’s day next year. See the thing is – while I have no problem skipping Championships for our wedding, I REALLY don’t ever want to have to plan anniversaries around Championships. (Besides that, more things are in bloom during May)