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turbidum
10-01-2002, 01:06
Hey, just kind of a question to all of the teams out there: How did you decide on your team names (and/or robot names)? Are they school mascots? allusions to literature or culture? Not really an important question, just trying to understand the rest of you out there, lol.
To answer my question, we have had two team names. Last year it was "The Titans." We spent (surprisingly) about a week on our name, finally deciding on something that sounded strong (Titans were figures in Greek mythology who were predecessors of the Olympian Gods, i.e. Mercury, Venus, etc.). Also, our robot's name was Vulcan (the Greek name for the Roman god Hephaestus, god of forges who pretty much created the first robots).
This year, since we wanted to change not only our appearance but be memorable (there were about 4 teams with the name "The Titans" last year), we decided in only about 2 or 3 days. We voted and came out with "The Apes of Wrath." Since our teacher is an English teacher and since we are from California, we thought it fitting to make some reference to Californian literature (John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath). Also, our robot's name this year is "Furious George," named after everyone's favorite childhood primate, Curious George.
So, if you feel like sharing, please tell the story of YOUR team or robot's name (and, if you would, respond to our team name, I would like some feedback).
Jordan A.
10-01-2002, 01:35
Our team was at first to be called Gilmores Geeks in recognition of a since moved vice principal who is admired by the nerd community in my school.
But it was changed to Kinetic Knights our school mascot is the Knight so it works. Only problem is our town name is Kincardine (Kincardine Kinetic Knights could perhaps be seen as wrong in acronym form)
Our robot name hasnt been decided, its however narrowed down to Sharlene or Ghost Dog
Sharlene is from Full Metal Jacket, Private Pile named his rifle sharlene
Ghost Dog is the name of a really horrible movie that alot of the people on our team saw and laughed ALOT at. That and it sounds like a great name right off the bat, where Sharlene would be harder for some people to instantly associate.
Christina
10-01-2002, 01:52
Well, The Mechanical Bulls (810) came about because the Bull is Smithtown's mascot. There's also a mural someone had done a few years ago of a bull that was made of like metal and stuff. One of the ideas that was outvoted was the Mechanibulls. Let me tell you how grateful I am that that lost. :)
As far as 417 goes though (since I feel I ought to mention them as well) I know last year they were Stangbot and I know their mascot is the mustang. Since I only became part of their team yesterday, I'm afraid that I don't know too much about them. But, I am assuming they also based their name off their school mascot.
Well, I'm tapped for information :)
~Christina
Carolyn Duncan
10-01-2002, 04:16
My former team, 495, was called The Pack and our robot was Alpha Wolf. We voted on that because the person who came up with the idea also incorped Rudyard Kipling's "Law of the Jungle" so we al thought it was cool. This was after we were drug away from the whole Johnny 5 thing... Anyway, we all also liked the Duran Duran song "Hungry Like the Wolf." Add all that up and it was a perfect fit.
As for Team 86, we are Team Resistance: Going against the Current. Our main sponsor is JEA, the local power company. Just kinda fits. I think one year they named the robot Ohmer or something like that. I'm not really sure about that or any other info because I'm new to the team this year. So that is about the limit of my knowledge as x-> 0.
Bill Gold
10-01-2002, 04:33
My team has had two names... The Lions, and The Sea Dawgs. We were the Lincoln Lions because our school mascot is a lion. When we were the Lions our robots names were "Robox" (it was a plywood box), and "Alion" (Al = Aluminum and lion for the lions.. it was funny at the time). We came up with The Sea Dawgs because we were frustrated with the lack of support we were getting from our school. Since they didn't want to either give us money, give us space to work, or promote our team in any way we decided to try to cut them out of our name. We wanted to have a pirate theme. So we looked up the word 'pirate' in a thesauras and found sea dog. We changed the spelling a little and the rest is history.
Tom Fairchild
10-01-2002, 08:10
Team 122 are the "original" NASA Knights. I've heard of there being one or two other NASA Knights around, but don't know what their team numbers are.
~Tom Fairchild~, who's proud to be a Knight! :D
Justin 188
10-01-2002, 08:12
For us, our team name always stayed "Woburn Robotics", but each year we had a different "theme" by which our robot and public image would be modelled after. In 1998 it was Chaos, 1999-Fury (some of u guys might remember the shorts with "FURY" printed across the rear), and 2000-Blizzard. However, once we got to Blizzard we decided to stick with it.
gniticxe
10-01-2002, 09:07
Go posting during school!! heh ;)
Anyway, MOE is an accronym for Miracle of Engineering. Yeah, its cheesy, but with DuPont being our major sponsor, and thier slogan being "Miracles of Science," this was a logical continuation. And we being literary and rhetorical gods :rolleyes: our chant, as most of you know, includes the phrase 'go moe' - wow -
see? it rhymes! isnt that just great?....
Brandon Martus
10-01-2002, 09:18
Pontiac Central High School Chiefs
Sponsor: Delphi Automotive Systems
Chief Delphi.
Matt Leese
10-01-2002, 09:20
Also, our robot's name was Vulcan (the Greek name for the Roman god Hephaestus, god of forges who pretty much created the first robots).
You have that backwards. Vulcan was the Roman name and Hephaestus was the Greek name.
Matt
Kit Gerhart
10-01-2002, 09:38
TechnoKats
Techno, from technology
Kats, from the school mascot, Wildkats
Kats is spelled wrong to go with Kokomo. I don't really like the deliberate misspelling, but it has been Wildkats for a hundred years, so I'm not going to change it.
SharkBite
10-01-2002, 13:35
In my opinion it is pretty important to find a good team name and stick with it. Its also a good idea to have the same name for your robot and your team, or something close so people recognize the robot and relate it to the team. Whatever you do though, try not to change the team name from year to year (unless you have something to hide or you want others to forget). Very few people realize that our team (Rhode Warrior) was the producer of the legendary Aquatread. They changed the team name for no reason really and so we are not attatched to that legend anymore except with the old FIRST veterens who figured it out.
And good teams names always come from something distinctive and meaningful. Something that represents your school or your location and adds a little something to it.
Becky
George1902
10-01-2002, 13:48
the two high schools represented by our team are South Fork High School and Martin County High School, so someone recommended:
S.A.M. = South Fork And Martin County
then someone mentioned that our sponsor Pratt & Whitney wasn't included... thus S.P.A.M. was born:
S.P.A.M. = South Fork, Pratt & Whitney, And Martin County
by the way... i LOVE your name... Apes of Wrath... lol... so many possiblilities with that one =-]
George
S.P.A.M. Team 180
Joseph F
10-01-2002, 14:04
Last year was our rookie year so we decided to keep our name fairly simple. Every team in our school has the name "The Friars". So we decided to modify it to "Steel Friars" to put emphasis on the robot itself. Since our school is a catholic school (1st catholic school on long island to compete I believe) and many of the teaches and staff are Fransiscan Brothers, we came up with the name Robo-Bro for the bot itself. Although we constantly used the nickname of "Boomer" because we figured it would explode the first time we powered up at the competition.
This year we kept the team name but decided to change our robot name. We took "Boomer" our nickname from last year and made it the real name. And with all these new motors and the importance of powerful drive trains, it seems all the more fitting.
I agree with the person from the Rhode Warriors, about having a good name and keeping it, so this year team 151 finally got around to establishing a name. The student body elected to become The Wildcards. Pretty much because a joker is a really cool logo.
Chris
151
Dave Hurt
10-01-2002, 15:27
Well, with team 308, we're Walled Lake schools and TRW. Trying to make a play off the Lockness monster, one of our engineers came up with the Walled Lake Monster. Don't ask where Robostars came from... I don't remember
EddieMcD
10-01-2002, 17:25
121 is actually the Islanders (we live on an island, every sport team uses it), but with a lot of teams, the robot name is what sticks. So, we are commonly refered to as the Rhode Warriors. I can think of a few other teams this applies to as well.
I guess as long as a crowd remembers your name, it really doesn't matter.
Jeff Waegelin
10-01-2002, 18:01
Our team (#201) is called the FEDS. Our original sponsor was EDS, so we took the F from Falcons (our school mascot) and put EDS at the end.
When we lost EDS and picked up Visteon as our sponsor, we now had a name derived from a former sponsor that we didn't particularly like at that point. The name, however, was what we were known as, so we developed a clever acronym for FEDS:
Falcon Engineering and Design Solutions
So there you have it, the clever backronym for our team name.
As for our robot, only one of them, our 2001 robot, has a name. It was called Tippy in honor of its apparent lack of balance when on the floor (not on the bridge, it was fine there :D).
turbidum
10-01-2002, 18:15
Matt, thanks for the correction. I was a bit out of it when I wrote this thread (always am), and I will make sure I don't do it in the future.
My team is called the "Cheesy Poofs" from South Park. It was chosen when South Park first came out, and we've stuck with it. Like SharkBite said, it is important to stick with the team name you have so people recognize your team from year to year.Genuis is 1% inspiration and 99% persperation.-Thomas Edison
Anton Abaya
10-01-2002, 20:03
Originally, I asked the high school students to come up with something. They came up with Eagles and Fantasia. Ech!
So I sat down one day in the Physics Club room at umass and started thinking of names they could vote on. One of them was Rambots. I came up with this name when I saw the Rambo poster on the wall :).
I also came up with other cool names that got voted down :(:
Robot Dinero
Botman and Robit
FemBots
etc..
-anton
Fearless Leader
10-01-2002, 20:45
Taylor Career Technical Center aNd Taylor Truman/Kennedy H.S. schools
Team T.N.T. 280
Taylor, Michigan
Last years Bot was named "MOOSE" because it looked like a moose with it's grippers in the upright position (hey it was 3 am the night before ship date and I had the label maker out...the rest is history)
No name as of yet for this years Beast.... Beast ...hmmmmm...well maybe? nah... too soon to tell
you know, i was there at the meeting where our team and robot names were decided... and i still have no idea where they came from. and come to think of it, it had to indirectly have come from me, since brits don't know about sporks. but now we're S.P.O.R.K. = Secret Phrases Only Roboticians Know. or something like that. with our bot 'ginger ninja'. that rhymes. really.
-ankur
Maddie N
10-01-2002, 23:30
Our Team name is the N.E.W. Apple Corps... and we got our name because we are based in Appleton Wisconsin, hence Apple ... and then N.E.W stands for North, East, West which are the three highschools involved in the Appleton Public School District. We also have some members from Xavier, which is a private school we just havent found a good way to incorporate them into our name yet. And our Robot name is Tobor, which is robot backwards. I'm not sure how that was come up with, maybe someone else from my team could answer that all I know is all of our robots have been named Tobor. Tobor I, Tobor II, Tobor III, Tobor IV and this year we're working on Tobor V.
turbidum
11-01-2002, 04:58
The response to this thread has been great! I love learning about how all of your team names came about (I especially like the N.E.W. Apple Corps, it's very punny).
Keep it up! (and, just as a quick question, what do YOU think of OUR name?)
Nonnebots
Team 38
Much irony here. Our team was born in 1997-98 (details on our creation can be found in the "creation myth" on our website, http://home.earthlink.net/~nonnebots/about.html). As students from Nonnewaug High School, Nonne was a given, and what did we build? a roBot. Hence Nonnebots. Spanning the first two years, we were sponsored by a local engineering firm, and recieved a bit of cash from Nonnewaug. However, in our third and fourth year Nonnewaug cut off all funding and support towards our team, leaving us with just the engineering group. For these 2 years, we had no affiliation with the school whatsoever. (during the past 6 years, our school has changed administration [principle, vice principle, superintendant] 3 or 4 times, resulting in widespread instability in budget and spending). Yet at the demand of one of our parent volunteers, our team remained "Nonnebots." (despite widespread, virtually 100% disagreement from students). Anyway, present year rolls around, and over the past summer, due to reasons far beyond our control, our sponsor could no longer support us, leaving our entire team sponsor and moneyless. Nonnewaug decided to throw us a bone and give us a small bit of cash. Not much, barely enough to register a regional, but we became an official "school club" once again. And so presently, Nonnebots. But still much to the protest of the student members.
Greg Mills
11-01-2002, 10:56
The Baxter Bomb Squad name comes from the Mountain Home High School mascot - Bombers. The school was built just after WWII when it was a good thing to be a "bomber". It is the only school in the US with that team name.
We have thought about if our name is still appropriate and have even talked to FIRST about it. Their thoughts were that a Bomb Squad is made up of "good guys" so it's ok.
We have always been very sensitive about our shirts and this year our team decided not to wear them outside the FIRST venues.
Kris Verdeyen
11-01-2002, 11:43
Team #118 out of Houston is the Robonauts, because most of the team's engineers (myself included) work at NASA on a project called (you guessed it) Robonaut.
Check him out here - http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er_er/html/robonaut/robonaut.html
The team's robot last year was called Condor because it looked rather birdlike after it was built, due to the 15' telescoping ball grabber arms, and the shorter pointed goal arm in the front. The previous year (before my time, but I'll share the legend) the robot was called "Hot Rod" because whenever it moved, it popped a wheelie. 118 tends to wait until the robot has started to take shape before they determine a name.
Kris Verdeyen
11-01-2002, 11:46
Oh yeah - I almost forgot:
Furious George was the name of Mr. Burn's knife-fighting monkey on the Simpsons.
There was an episode where Homer was left in charge of Burn's house, and took his yacht to international waters, where they, among other things, staged a monkey knife fight. When Burns came home to see his monkey bandaged up, he exclaimed, "Furious George! What happened to your beautiful face?"
And now you know the rest of the story.
Scott England
11-01-2002, 13:34
Our first year we were the Blacksburg Power Surge (big suprise that one didn't stick, but technically we weren't allowed to use the name "Blacksburg High School" since that year we had no official school support. Since our team is now more established and has more support, we're The Hokie GUARD
Hokie, from the mascot of Virginia Tech, where most of the team mentors are from, GUARD being both a regiment of soldiers, and an accronym, as inspired by the HOT team (heros of tomorrow). We're still debating to keep the accronym or just leave it as guard with no other meaning, but if we keep the accronym, its
GUARD - Gladiators of Uniquely Accelerated Robot Development
Joe Menassa
11-01-2002, 15:23
we live in Rhode Island. hence the RHODE part and warrior is just cool so our robot is the RHODE WARRIOR (and we just add a # after it eachyear).
turbidum
11-01-2002, 20:20
Lol, my younger brother said the exact same thing when I said that. Since we are HUGE Simpsons fans, I think that knew it subconsciously, but it still seemed apropos because we have an English teacher as a mentor (strange, huh?).
Katie Reynolds
12-01-2002, 15:28
Originally posted by Maddie N:
Our Team name is the N.E.W. Apple Corps... and we got our name because we are based in Appleton Wisconsin, hence Apple ... and then N.E.W stands for North, East, West which are the three highschools involved in the Appleton Public School District. We also have some members from Xavier, which is a private school we just havent found a good way to incorporate them into our name yet. And our Robot name is Tobor, which is robot backwards. I'm not sure how that was come up with, maybe someone else from my team could answer that all I know is all of our robots have been named Tobor. Tobor I, Tobor II, Tobor III, Tobor IV and this year we're working on Tobor V.
Yea, I believe the second year (TOBOR I) one of our students was just messing around and said "Hey! We sould call it TOBOR! That's 'ROBOT' spelled backwards!" (Duh!) Every year after that we've kept the name and added a roman numeral... The first year our team was formed, we were at a different Appleton HS and the robot's name from that year is unkown. So yea! :)
That's my story 'n I'm sticking to it!
Lachuck894
12-01-2002, 17:12
Lets see.....how did we come up with our name again? Our full name if Nortel Networks "The RAID". I know we were kicking names around and came up with that. RAID does stand for something... I'm going to go out on a limb and say RAID stands for Robotic Artificial Intelligent Development....
Yea, that should be right. And our robot name.... is "Gus". Though this year, it may be "Gus the 2nd". Not sure though.
For those of you using Bosch...(our team did last year)....we decided to call it "Gus" because we need all the gussets to put the bot together. And we also said if the robot was female, it would have been "Guset" :D
So far, I think no one else has copied ours...lol
turbidum
14-01-2002, 06:49
Hi, and thanks to all of those who have posted. But, since i've only gotten 33 replies (three of them my own), I know there are only about 30 of the teams that have responded of the hundreds out there. C'mon, get those fingers typing and explain why YOUR team name is unique!
Kris Verdeyen
14-01-2002, 15:14
Originally posted by FIRSTAE2004
Yea, I believe the second year (TOBOR I) one of our students was just messing around and said "Hey! We sould call it TOBOR! That's 'ROBOT' spelled backwards!" (Duh!) Every year after that we've kept the name and added a roman numeral... The first year our team was formed, we were at a different Appleton HS and the robot's name from that year is unkown. So yea! :)
That's my story 'n I'm sticking to it!
Hey Tobor Fans!
Did you know that there's been a movie made about your robot? Do you like adventure? Excitement? Romance? Crappy 1950's sci fi?
Then check out Tobor the Great (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0047590)
Now playing in the home of a collector of crappy 50's sci-fi videos near you!
:D
Tom Fennell
15-01-2002, 12:44
We're the Gear Grinders, but this is due to a 'contest' of sorts we held last year to decide on a new name, which replaced the unfortunate wrestling reference of the 'NRO', or the New Robot Order. So, moving past that, we came across the Gear Grinders, with our robot Boomer (Always has been Boomer, just 'cause)...I'm still of the opinion that a 'Gear Grinder' might not be the best name to give to a perfectly (hopefully) working machine...Sounds a bit like 'Motor Burners' or 'Traction losers' or the like.
-Tom
Originally we were a combined team with 5 different high schools represented. Many of the students on that original team were from Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach. Though other cities with romantic names like Hawthorne were also represented. When they were picking the team name Beach 'Bots was suggested but not chosen. I think they were the South Bay Sparks or something like that. Another name of ill-omen.
The next year, for various reasons irrelevant to this discussion, Hope Academy and Hawthorne High decided to have their own teams. Since Hope Academy does not compete in any intermural sports EXCEPT robotics, we didn't have a school mascot to fall back on.
I was at the meeting where we chose the name Beach 'Bots. Somebody remembered the name from the previous year and it seemed appropriate. After all the school is located in Hermosa Beach. It was also non-violent and would offend no ethnic groups.
We weren't particularly successful in competition that year, but everybody seemed to like the name so we kept it the second year. That year we did fairly well in competition, we were in the semifinals at our regional, and placed in the top 10 % nationally.
Since we were starting to get a name, the third year we kept it again and I don't think anyone has even considered changing it since. I certainly don't remember it being voted on after the second year.
Officially our robot is just one of the team and goes by Beach 'Bot X.0 but some years it has a team nickname as well. I can remeber a couple of discussions about whether that year's robot was a "he" or a "she".
I think this year's is definitely a "he".
Our team got it's name 4 years ago by taking a combination of the East Islip High School regular sports team name: the EI Redmen. Coupled with the type of product our very first sponsor, AIL Systems manufactured: Radar Jamming Equipment.
Put it together and you have : The RedJammers!!
We have kept the team name as it has become sort of a tradition.
The robot's name changes every year. There are 4 elementary schools in the district and in the beginning of December the team holds a 'name the robot' contest. They visit each of the elementary schools with the previous years robot, performing demonstrations and promoting FIRST and the team. Then ballot boxes are left in the schools and retrieved a week later. One finalist from each elementary school is chosen and each of those students receives a team T-shirt (itself a major fashion statement of style and grace!)
Last year's robot was named EInstein (a capital EI for East Islip) Geez! I wish the team had a dollar for all of the "robby the robot" entries received.
This years name hasn't been announced yet. Soon though soon, when the time is right........
foursixnine
16-01-2002, 01:07
Actually our team name has a pretty good story behind it. Two years ago our team was formed when a number of students were dropped from the official school team under still questionable reason. However, the students refused to give up on FIRST and with the help of one parent in particular they found a sponsor and college to promote their team. As a result the name "Las Guerrillas" came naturally. Up until this year the two teams enjoyed comepeting against one another, but as the number of students on the official school team dwindled those on 469 continued to grow and the school team met a demise over summer of 2001. The truly ironic part is that just within the last couple of weeks our team has become the new official school team. I used to be on the former official school team, and I swear there was more drama between the two teams than in a soap opera but things worked out in the long run. Oh by the way last years FIRST bot was named Cornelius after the mean ape in "Planet of the Apes" and we named our 2001 CDI bot Kurchec after the biggest gorilla in "Tarzan" I think it was.
Jason_384
16-01-2002, 10:43
Well we are team 384. We just decided to make it easy and use our team number as our name. Humm us lazy Virginia people :). Our robot name is the same as last year. SPARKY 3.0 ! We should have a site up with pics of our FIRST COMPLEATED prototype! I will post when we have it up.
Jason
ahh behold a shower of sparks....o wait thats our robot trying to move!
JC Denton
17-01-2002, 01:04
Well, back to the days when we were the only team from Colorado, our team name was Colorado Robotics, but last year 2 rookie teams, one form Denver and one from Colorado Spring participated in the same regional as we were, and the Denver team registered as Colorado Robotics, so we changed our team name to Alpine Robotics, which I think we will stick with for a while.
As for our bot, the name changes every year, but last year we have officially come to a general consensus to name our robot CAM the RAMBot, because we want to draw our potential sponsor, Colorado State university, into supporting us financially as well. CAM stands for Colorado Academy of Mines, which is the old name for CSU and the Rams is their mascot. So far, they haven't promise anything yet, but they do allow us to work in a lab located in the engineering building, which is quite nice... However, we were surprised how many teams were named RAMBot as well, so we might change it to CAMBot this year.
Mark Hamilton
18-01-2002, 12:00
I'd love to tell you a funny story about how we got our team's name(SigmaC@ts)...But I dont know. I've spent the last couple years trying to find out , and to my knowledge noone remembers or is willing to admit why we named it that. Our school Mascot is the Panther, which explains the cat(but not the @ symbol...) and sigma is a greek letter. There have been a few attempts by the students to change it, but we've had it so long it would seem sacrilege to change it. Let this be a lesson to all rookie teams, WRITE THIS STUFF DOWN!
Team 191 - Xerox-Joseph C Wilson Magnet HS - X-CATS
In the same line with some other teams we're almost kinda obvious.
X= XEROX Logo
CATS = Wilson WildCats (mascot)
Also side note - Wilson Magent HS was named after Joseph C. Wilson founding CEO of XEROX.
Thus our 11 year partnership tradition is linked by this historic fact.
Ellery
Mark Pierce
22-01-2002, 12:09
The RoboDAWGS (Team 288) were named by Mr. Dolloff in the 1999 season as something to put on our registration papers. Grandville's teams are the Bulldogs. The phonetic spelling mimics a lot of Grandville banners, T-shirts, etc. spelled this way. This is primarily athletic stuff, although the theater group calls themselves the Drama DAWGS as well. Anyway, it seems to have stuck, although some students have questioned the logic of it
After some initial logo attempts, Bob Mills, a senior on the team, came up with our rookie year logo for the T-shirts and robot. Great design, but complicated and expensive to reproduce. Us folks from Michigan melted with black shirts in the heat of Florida.
The 2000 team had one primary focus for uniforms and logo- a brighter color. Sophmore Brian DeVries came up with the angular Bulldog head used on literature and the shoulders of our shirts. The main color scheme and shirt design was inspired by a box at one of our Saturday design sessions.
The identity and recognition of our team has skyrocketed with the bright colors, the performance of the robots, the animation team, and of course, some excellent team members.
volleygrrl234
22-01-2002, 13:19
Since our teacher sponsor has a side job of raising cattle... he owns 40 head of them... we decided to name our robot "Beefeater" I still don't know why because cows don't eat themselves... and we neglected the fact that beefeater is also the name of a gin and a gentelmans magazine.....
RoboGirll
23-01-2002, 18:05
we got our name after a long fight... I dont know WHO came up with it, but we're sticking to it!!
R.A.C.E.
Robotics And Creative Engineering
and our robot is RACER- just add Robot at the end
Our mascot is Speed Racer. GO SPEED RACER GO SPEED RACER GO SPEED RACER GOOOOOOO!
We had a long debate with all the members over what to rename Team 217 this year. There was a slight change in team sponsorship, so we are no longer Team Macomb. We welcomed all ideas and made it a rule not to criticize or blatantly reject any possible names. As with all teams we wanted a catchy name that would be embedded into the brains of other teams. Then one of our Ford engineers with a stroke of brilliance (we have to give them credit once in a while), suddenly came out with, how about the "ThunderChickens." We knew that was it then and there, a marketing division's dream. We're having tons of fun with the name already. Here's two examples: our Team Motto is: Engineering New Ways to Cross The Road." The robots name is "The Colonel", you can guess why. Look for the 217 ThunderChickens at the competition this year. We guarantee you won't forget us.
Wayne P
ThunderChickens CEO
Rockin' Robots
Gary Stearns
25-01-2002, 09:38
Thunder Chicken reminds me of a cartoon, late 60's called
Super Chicken it had a really catchy theme song.
http://www.toonopedia.com/suprchic.htm
"When you think your lifes in danger
When your threatned by a stranger
When you think you will get a lickin
BUC BUC BUC ....
Well you get it.
We haven't officially set on a name yet, there is an unofficial one.
Forrest Gumball
Well have fun.
TEAM !! 236 !!
TECHNO TICKS !!!
Team 568 is "Nerds of the North". The kids came up with the name last year (rookie year) when they had a meeting and looked at themselves. It was adopted by unanimous consent. It must come from some "North to Alaska" type expression (we are in Anchorage Alaska). In a reflection of the harsh environment the kids also came up with the motto "Adapt, migrate, or die".
The machine is called "Absolute Zero", hopfully a reflection more of the temp than the score!
UCGL_Guy
25-01-2002, 17:19
Our robots name is always ADIDAR (All Day I Dream About Robots) thought up by a student in our academic sponsors Biology class. We are know as the Adidarons. When we were looking for the names of the teams some were very distasteful and this one has stuck, and kind of unique. Happy roboting KY :D
kmcclary
30-01-2002, 11:12
The rookie Rat Pack (Team 830, Huron High) derived its name from school's mascot, the River Rats. Huron High is located on the Huron River in Ann Arbor, MI.
Back around 1970 when the school first opened, they allowed the students to choose their own school mascot. They chose that one, much to the consternation of parents <chuckle>, because of the amount of Rodentia present around the river. At first, the parents howled and wanted it changed, but they SAID the students could choose it and were stuck with it! Besides, they were having WAY too much fun with it, so the parents backed off. It's now been around for 30 years and well accepted by the community. We have the Bat Rats (baseball team), Mat Rats (wrestling), etc.
Our team entered the CDI shortly after forming last fall. We had to have SOMETHING for the CDI contest's program, so we started throwing out names at a meeting. We knew we wanted to tie this fledgling program to the school so it students would identify with it and join. Then someone suggested "Rat Pack". It was definitely a head slapping "Yea, of COURSE" moment with everyone! <grin>
As for the robot, we WANTED to name it to be something apropos for the contest at hand. The CDI printing deadline was AFTER the contest was revealed. Our robot for the CDI contest was called "Pack Rat", as the problem was to collect OJ jugs and shuffle them around from shelf to shelf. Since running around randomizing objects' locations is exactly what a *real* Pack Rat DOES, it was definitely appropriate.
It's too bad that the FIRST printing lead times don't allow for us to name the robot after the contest is revealed! Since we didn't know what this contest was about yet when the program deadline came up, we just decided to keep the same name for this, our first FIRST contest.
But now we're finding we tend to tie a name too tightly to one robot. Although our FIRST machine will also be called Pack Rat, we're definitely using the name "Pack Rat" to refer specifically to our CDI contest machine (in fond memory, as it had to be torn down for recycling <sniff>). We're probably going to have to start thinking about annual robot names.
Any chance FIRST might ever set up a situation to allow us all to name our robots AFTER we find out about the problem?
BTW... One concept bantered about is in the future using famous "positive image" cartoon rat names for the individual robots, especially those that are popular enough to have stuffed animals made after them, so suggestions ARE appreciated to add to our list. An example might be Rizzo, from Henson Associates (Muppet fame), a Pokémon character, or the like. (Gee, we've found that for some reason it's HARD to find positive "rat" dolls! Stores don't seem to get into rats as much as they do the "cuddly" animals! <head scratch> ;-)
BTW... Do any of the teams ever dress or decorate themselves as some variant of their mascot for contests, or have their "furry suit" mascot come along to the Regionals?
- Keith
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Keith McClary, Advisor, Huron High Rat Pack, Team 830
Jeff Waegelin
31-01-2002, 10:42
Originally posted by kmcclary
BTW... Do any of the teams ever dress or decorate themselves as some variant of their mascot for contests, or have their "furry suit" mascot come along to the Regionals?
Last year at Gret Lakes Regional, we had one of our college students dress up in our school mascot's suit. Since Rochester High School is the Falcons, we had a giant blue falcon wearing one of our team T-shirts. The Husky Brigade even gave us an award for the "Best Team Mascot"
Wait 'til you see what the ThunderChickens have planned. We'll definitely have members in Furry Suits with our Team shirt over them. The Mascots, are actually one of the most contended for positions on the team this year. It will be a blast. We will be at The Great Lakes Regional, Motorola Midwest Regional, and Nationals. Good luck with roboting.
Radiant Phoenix
31-01-2002, 19:26
Like so many others, our name is and Acronym. DART stands for De Anza Robotics Team.
Our first year we were just De Anza High School (in other words we were not very good at coming up with ideas). We changed it last year, and It's going to stay.
As for the name of our robots, they change every year, depending on what is on our minds when we choose it's title. Year One: Mr. Roboto (As in the Styx song that ROCKS!), Second year: BOB, which stood for "Be Our Buddies", and this year, Hampton, which was chosen after a LONG discussion about the Hamptser Dance Song...
ColleenShaver
31-01-2002, 20:45
Why not tell our story.....
Our team name is Gompei and the H.E.R.D. .... Gompei is the unofficial mascot of the school (technically, we're the "Engineers")... this is how the story goes..
"On a dark and stormy night in 1898, Gompei, the beloved goat mascot of WPI, was brutally beheaded. His head was bronzed in an act of immortalization; and it is there that his spirit has dwelled. Now, 104 years later, Gompei's spirit resides within the WPI/Mass Academy FIRST robot!
All goats go to heaven...
Except for Gompei. "
We call our robot Gompei usually.. but last year (and this year) we've added a twist my morphing him with another animal based on our robot abilities..
Last year it was the "Spidergoat" for our bar crawling legs.... this year it is the _____goat for our very cool ______ that you will all see at competition!!
Mike Schroeder
03-02-2002, 01:03
Team 25 Raider Robotix
Our Name is dirived from the schools name the Raiders (which is a bird but really isn't) and robotix from the fact we are a robotics team but it looks cooler with the X at the end
Venkatesh
20-01-2003, 11:53
Does anyone know why team 30 is called FURY?
(Im on the team, and still have no idea y):ahh:
EvilInside
20-01-2003, 13:58
Our team name is Optimus Prime, for whatever the reason. Last year our robot name was V3.103 for some odd reason, don't ask me why. I've been trying to get the team name changed to APE (for Arrowhead & Price Engineering) but to no avail. No good stories here.
gilachick
20-01-2003, 14:11
My old team was the Gila Monsters and that name was decided through many days of hard work. We first chose a number of names based on the fact that we were from Arizona and wanted something that would associate us to our state. So after many ideas we decided on the Gila Monsters due to the fact that our sponsor was General Motors so we though that the name was perfect and it has been.
I am now on a rookie team started by alumni from the Gila Monsters. Our team name is C.R.U.S.H. which stands for constructing robots under severe heat. The name was proposed and liked and that is our name now.
Hailfire
20-01-2003, 14:22
My mom came up with our team name. Take a look at the picture above my sig to find out what it stands for.
Mongoose
20-01-2003, 16:10
Our name came from a bunch of biology nuts. They tried DNA on us, which was basically rejected by everyone. There were a couple of other "bland" suggestions, but those didn't carry too well. Finally, we decided on NRG because it has some relevance to what we're doing and it stands for Newport Robotics Group. Although it would be nice if we could change it to Newport Robotics Association. Think of what that would do.
Ashley Weed
20-01-2003, 16:13
ehh... our team originally began as the LITTLES, which stood for the schools that were on the team... which are now three different teams - 84, 222, 284
team 84 became SWATT the first year which stood for the school that brandched of from the LITTLES, and the schools that joined up in that area
the third year of our existence we became WATTNESS, and have been ever since.
W - Waverly, NY
A - Athens, PA
T - Troy, PA
T - Towanda, PA
NE - NorhtEast Bradford, PA
SS - School Systems
our Robot's name was originally the Charminator the year of the LITTLES, because the sponsor was Charmin.
The name evolved into Chuck from the Chuck Taylor All Star shoes. For the first 4 years of team 84, Chuck changed slightly with numbers..... Chuck, ChuckR2, Chuck Pi, Chuck IV. However, the fifth year, the Robot became just Chuck, and it is referred to as Chuck by others....... (within our team, we still give them varying 'number' names to identify them; Chuck the 5th; Chuck N Moose.
...... hmmmm???? wonder what this years 'identification' name will become... only time will tell!
SpamDan@GaTech
20-01-2003, 16:52
Originally posted by kmcclary
BTW... Do any of the teams ever dress or decorate themselves as some variant of their mascot for contests, or have their "furry suit" mascot come along to the Regionals?
My senior year in High School (2001), a friend brought a superman outfit to nationals as a mascot for SPAM. A friend and I traded off wearing it, because it gets really hot after a while. It was alot of fun though, and might help you get a spirit award. We also had SPAM capes made for everyone.
George already did a good job of explaining how SPAM came about, so I won't bother with that. However, I am now at Georgia Tech and we sponsor 2 teams.
Team 832 is Chimera, which is some mythical animal that is part Lion, Snake, and Goat, I think. Not a school mascot, but it works.
Team 1002 is the CircuitRunners. I don't think they even know where it came from. Maybe one of them will post and let you know.
That's my info, happy bot building everyone!
DaveG702
20-01-2003, 18:37
Our name has an unusual story. I joined the team in our second year and have only heard the story. Apparantly during our rookie year a local bagel store donated trash bags full of bagels to our team and our teacher christened our team/robot "bagel bytes".:rolleyes:
My school, Harvard-Westlake, used to be two separate schools: Harvard School and Westlake School. Before they merged ten years ago, Harvard's mascot was the Saracen. When the two merged, the new mascot became the Wolverine. No one is particularly fond of the wolverine, so when we were choosing a name this year (it's our rookie year), we went back a decade and named ourselves The Saracens instead. Saracens are Muslim crusaders.
BBFIRSTCHICK
20-01-2003, 19:24
Well, our team name is "All Stars" at first it was going to be "Stars" which meant as a joke... "Surviving Team members After Ramtech "(#59....our old team we were on) then we had just added the "all " in front of it....We have not decided on this years name for the bot.... but the name of last years bot (Rebecca) was chosen from a Walmart by one of our Engineers
pauluffel
20-01-2003, 20:53
Yeah Dan, Team Chimera was just a random idea from someone, but it really fit our robot well as we tried to do everything last year. This year you need to get them to do something about flying insects, because Tech is the Yellow Jackets and Roswell is the Hornets.
This year the team I"ve started is titled Lotus Robotics, but we had fun trying to think up names. There were a few acronyms people were coming up with, but none of them fit well, so I discouraged them. There were a few pirate ideas thrown around (alot of people wanted to find out what "pirate" is in russian and have that as our name) and a few just stupid names, but a few days earlier when I was conceiving ideas, I come up with the name Lotus Robotics. It"s clean and simple, but it has enough mystical implications that I thought it would fit well. When we finally got a list together to vote on, I added Lotus Robotics to the list and explained it by saying "it's a cool name" and no one really seemed interested, but when it came to the vote, it won nearly unanimously. It"s rather unique too, as I can"t think of any other teams with even a vaguely eastern theme, so look out for revolutionary marketing techniques at the Peachtree Regional.
2PI4Julia
21-01-2003, 00:06
Well, since we ARE team 360, or 2PI in radians, it's the same as one revolution, so we are The Revolution (dang it's great to be a nerd, and its amazing that I learned more about Trig in robotics by our name and whatnot than I have in all my math classes!). Originally we were the Ranier Roboteers, since we're so close to Mt. Ranier, but we decided to change it for our 3rd year. So we are The Revolution.
And as for our robot, RainMaker, since we're from the Pacific Northwest, it seemed appropriate with the abundence of rain we get, and with all the reservations within the area, yeah, you get the point.
Amanda Aldridge
21-01-2003, 00:10
We have always been Team Hammond. Our robot name is The BEAST. BEAST stands for Beatty Engineered And Student Tweaked. It's an acronym that the students came up with 4(?) years ago, and it's stuck ever since.
Kristina
21-01-2003, 00:18
Our rookie year we were the blazing tomahawks or something like that because our school mascot was the Indians. Well I guess we've had political-correctness pressure so we decided to change our name our second year and pick something more memorable. Not hard, our school's name was Hart...many things can come off of that.
So we were thinking pacemakers, hart attack, hart condition, etc, etc but the guys thought doing the whole medical thing overboard like we were envisioning was too hokey.
After much much debate and arguing we happily decided on Hartburn because the guys liked fire and it gave the spirit team a lot to go off of.
Amanda Morrison
21-01-2003, 18:37
After several directionless meetings without a name, one team member stood up and yelled, "How about the Prank Monkeys?"
It's obviously so completely random that the kids loved it. It's actually a good name when it comes to promotion, etc.
Besides, it's a good rookie name - at least some people will remember us for it both on and off the field!
Amanda
p.s. - I forgot this. Our official motto is I.M.A.G.I.N.E.- Intelligent Minds And Great Innovations for a New Evolution.
Harrison
21-01-2003, 18:45
Last year we didn't name our bot (didnt really think of it)...
But our team name is pretty simple...
Mobotics - a combonation of Mowat (our school) and Robotics. Everything at my school is Mo-something.
turbidum
22-01-2003, 18:49
Hey, it's great to see so many people responding still to the thread I started last year. And, yes, I did know that Mr. Burns's fighter monkey was Furious George (how could any self-respecting "Simpsons" fan not know that?), but the pun is still funny. Just to update people, we are still The Apes of Wrath, but our robot's name has changed. We were probably going to end up going with Magilla Guerilla (Hanna Barbara cartoon character, c'mon, you know, with the little hat and suspenders), but, since we now have Karate Chop action, we're going with Kong Fu. Any thoughts on that? lol
johnscans
22-01-2003, 20:29
we r known as team decepticon after the robots from teh old transformers show. yah, they r the bad guys but the name sounds much cooler then auto bot. we wanted team S.L.U.T(Students Loving and Understanding Technology) but it was turned down for obvious reasons. thats preety much the story of our name. now lets get it moving, lol
john scans
team 1019
TEAM DECEPTICON
turbidum
23-01-2003, 01:13
Ah, yes, the dangerous acronyms. Although we didn't have one as risque as S.L.U.T., we tried to get away with FaSciSts for our science fiction and fantasy book club (it was short for Fantasy and Science Fiction for Students). The administrators, however, weren't too thrilled with us wanting to be the FaSciSts club, for obvious reasons, almost as obvious as S.L.U.T. (risque, but creative, lol).
we choose our team name trying to show how is our project because our project is UNDER CONTROL. got the idea...
kmcclary
23-01-2003, 16:24
Originally posted by johnscans
We wanted team S.L.U.T(Students Loving and Understanding Technology) but it was turned down for obvious reasons.
john scans
team 1019
TEAM DECEPTICON LOL!!!
You know, choosing a name can be HARD... The high school is simply "The Pioneers", with a complex Conestoga Wagon logo, and most of the sports teams go with that. The students however weren't crazy about being yet ANOTHER team at the school with the same name.
So the names started coming, and coming, and COMING... We had a HUGE number of random ideas for a team name, but a LOT of them were presented in jest.
At one point during the naming process our team thought about being the "Cow Pi's" with turd hats and a cow's profile logo that looked like the mathematical Pi symbol. :D Needless to say though, of ALL the ideas, the school administration was NOT pleased with being associated with THAT concept. The admin said they didn't care if it was an animal or other choice, but they didn't want to be the "butt" of jokes... We didn't want a fight with them. When we thought about it, we felt we might have a hard time recruiting SPONSORS to that name as well. So we found something else. (We also thought we may not appreciate comments from other teams like "they make crappy robots"... ;) )
After MANY waves of ideas though, we obviously weren't getting anywhere, and were running out of time to decide. I finally simply said to focus everyone: "OK, these are ALL cool ideas, but we now need to choose ONE. So, to show everyone you're SERIOUS about your idea, and present a logo concept as well. You don't have to be an artist, just show us the CONCEPT, and we'll FIND a student with art skills to draw it for you. We'll then choose from THOSE."
Oh boy, THAT quickly separated the REAL suggestions from random prank offerings! To our amazement though, SEVERAL students showed up the next week with EXCELLENT presentations and artwork, and we got down to some SERIOUS name selection! We still had lots of animal or machine/tech thematic items to choose from, but now we could SEE them.
I think the term "Pi High Samurai" was originally forwarded as a gag. However, Jeffrey Nao, a Sophomore with EXCELLENT art skills, ran with it. Jeffrey came up with our incredible Samurai Warrior logo (which you'll see in the Yearbook this year), and it took the student's votes hands down. EVERYONE, students, mentors, teachers, and sponsors alike were pleased with the name. "Pi High" is something the students all call the school anyway, and we all thought Pi High Samurai rolled off the tongue fairly easily. It also had a LOT of interesting thematic opportunities for development of a "team personality" and swap items. Our robot is named Shogun, for "leader of the army".
Now if anyone has a lead of where we can get ahold of a good Samurai Armor suit for our mascot, please email me privately! :D REAL ones are thousands of dollars, so we're now trying to figure out how to have a costume one made cheaply.
- Keith
Todd Derbyshire
23-01-2003, 17:07
Ok here comes simplicity..... Bridgewater Raynham Regional High School Trojans with a partnership with Johnson and Johnson. So we dabbled a bit played with some letters and got TJ^2!! As for the robot it just gets a number for the year it played in. For instance last would be 2002
Don Knight
23-01-2003, 18:04
Our team name is the Gila Monsters (pronounced He la)
We are from Arizona and wanted something distinctive, to represent Arizona and the Southwest. The Gila Monster is one of the few poisonous lizards. Has a terrific bite, and just looks real ominous. Our sponsor is General Motors so the initials worked with our sponsors name also.
Are Motto is: "We Really Bite"
Again reflecting the real Gila Monster, it's also works great if you're winning or losing!
The Robots Names have been Gila I,II,III,IV,V short for
Gil A Monster I,II,III,IV,V
hixofthehood
23-01-2003, 19:50
Originally posted by foursixnine
Actually our team name has a pretty good story behind it.
Yeah, that is a really cool story.
Originally posted by Matt Leese
You have that backwards. Vulcan was the Roman name and Hephaestus was the Greek name.
Matt
I'll never forget the presentation where my friend needed to present on a Greek god, and she was assigned "Hephaestus." She started out standing in the front of the class, pretending to read The Odyssey , then she threw it down and complained "This book is LAME, LAME, LAME!!!" Then she wrote "LAME" on the board in large capital letters. She went on to explain that there really was a god in Greek mythology that was crippled... it was such a good attention getter, I still remember a lot about 'em today.
Originally posted by mehtank
'ginger ninja'. -ankur
What a great robot name!
esellers
24-01-2003, 10:05
Our name sort of just fell on us. we have students from five schools and it is a vocational center. Our name is CSI: Monroe. The Center for Scientific Intelligence and we all live in Monroe county. Our instructor came up with the name we really didn't have any idea what our team name should be but it doesn't sound to bad. We tried to name our robot Bob the bot but our instructor wouldn't let us so we had to come up with another name. We haven't decided on a name for the bot but if anyone has any suggestion it would be appreciated."The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,but where he stands in moments of controversy." Martin Luther King,Jr.
Ricky Q.
24-01-2003, 10:59
Well, you've got the Oconomowoc High School Cooney
parternered up with Quest Technologies, and hence....you have the Cooney Quest. :cool:
Mark Pettit
24-01-2003, 12:17
We're Brophy College Preparatory, an all boys school in Phoenix, AZ. We used to be hooked up with Xavier College Prep (all girls school right next door) but this year we each have our own respective team. Our team chose The Dukes as our name since it has all of the masculine undertones (i.e. status, competetiveness, toughness) that we're going for. At this point, we're not sure if we'll keep it from year to year or if we'll create a new "brand" each year.
Our robot is named "Uncomfortable Hunk of Metal" (UHOM). We chose the name last year while we were on our way home from the SoCal Regional in a van. Some students were watching Pulp Fiction and we all agreed that UHOM was a sweet name for the robot after the infamous Christopher Walken (Captain Koons) scene. The name stuck and we think it'll probably last from year to year.
Amanda M
30-01-2003, 00:44
Well, let's see... I don't think that our team has anything interesting, namewise. People don't know us by our team name, so it's as if we don't have one anyway. We are the Bionic Bulldogs. I think it's cause the school's mascot is a bulldog and bionic has to do with mechanics.
A very interesting story, I know, but that's the truth... and the truth is not always the most fun thing in the world.
Amanda
Originally posted by Greg Mills
The Baxter Bomb Squad name comes from the Mountain Home High School mascot - Bombers. The school was built just after WWII when it was a good thing to be a "bomber". It is the only school in the US with that team name.
Hey - It's cool to see another High School named the bombers. I went to Kenston High School in Bainbridge Ohio - also with the bomber as a mascot. Our high school taugh bomber pilots for WWII on the weekends, so it was a good fit.
In the age old argument - Knights will beat Lions, or Tigers will beat falcons, a Bomber ALWAYS BEATS EVERYTHING.
EIROBOTICS86
07-02-2003, 17:01
WE Are The Red Jammers
Red=East Islip REDmen
Jammers=Our First Sponsor AIL Makes Radio JAMMERS
Where did CircuitRunners come from? Came from me....
We had a brain storming session and I randomly came up with it some how. I was thinking basically circuits and movemnt. Then of course zoneing out was a factor in it. Also i was trying to think of a plauseable logo. I had another cool one. Except, it only made it to the second to last voteing round for names. The runner up name for our team was the name of computer game if any1 was wondering.....
Funny story in short: Members that quit 1 week into program named it at a meeting I couldn't attend. It has stuck ever since.
The Mean Machine
sciencegeek3
10-05-2003, 23:24
We chose this as a team because our mascot is a really common one so we wanted something different. It stands for
Philomath High Robotics Engineering Division. We like it and have found lots of ways to have fun with it so far. we have changed our logo each year however as our graphics capabilities have advanced and are hoping to have a new mascot for the team next year instead of a logo override.
school = The Harker School
Harker Robotics Team (hrt)
boring name, but we've got a cool logo to go with it :D (if i do say so myself)
first little bracket thingy is a lowercase "h" without the vertical line, second one is an r, and the third one is part of a "T"
D. Gregory
12-05-2003, 10:57
UHS Wolfpack=Unionville Highschool Wolves
Steve Yasick
12-05-2003, 13:46
I'm not making this up! Zeeland's school mascot is the CHIX! (like baby chicken)
Not much help there! Our name came to us three hours into a bus ride home from CDI a few years back. We wanted a simple name that everyone would remember. B.O.B. Built On Brains.
When I saw the Thunderchickens I thought that was way-cool.
:D
Travis Hoffman
12-05-2003, 17:21
Delphi Corporation (Packard Electric Systems)
+
E.L.I.T.E. --> Encourage Learning In Technology and Engineering
= Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
The founding members of Team 48 created the "E.L.I.T.E." acronym in 1998, and it has remained a part of our name ever since. However, using a name like this can be a little risky. Unlike "MOE" or "SPAM" or "BOB", "ELITE" is an acronym that conveys an air of arrogance when you spell it without periods (or say it. Our signature back-and-forth cheer of "DEL-PHI!..........E-LITE!" rolls off the tongue just a tad more smoothly than "DEL-PHI!...........E PERIOD! L PERIOD! I PERIOD! T PERIOD! E PERIOD!!!!!!" ). We make every attempt to use the official form with periods when writing or displaying our team name to indicate that it is an acronym with an honorable meaning instead of some arrogant designation we haughtily chose for ourselves, but undoubtedly, there are those out there that hear our name or see it mistakenly spelled "ELITE" and get the wrong impression. It really doesn't help that the words "ELITE 48" appeared on the back of our yellow polo shirts this past season. Sigh. That uniform design flaw will be eliminated next season.
Maybe our self-generated paranoia would go away if we simply changed our name to "Delphi A.V.E.R.A.G.E."? -->
The
Adult
Volunteer/
Enthusiastic
Raider (high school mascot)
Alliance -
Generating the
Engineers of the Future
We are................AVERAGE. Ho-hum.
Our robot has always been named xtremachen (pronounced just like "Extreme Machine") since our team's inception in '98. Beginning in '99, we've appended a superscript digit to the end of the name to indicate the number of years our team has been a member of FIRST. 2003's creation was xtremachen6.
Originally posted by Venkatesh
Does anyone know why team 30 is called FURY?
(Im on the team, and still have no idea y):ahh:
Because if we were anger, rage, or acrimony we wouldn’t have nearly as much fun with our team name, especially the signs :D. If you really want to know I’d find a Mr. Holton or a Will Pilis or a Sean Munson and ask them. If I had to guess I’d say it came from the whole Achilles Rage thing, but 173 probably didn’t like us using their name so we changed to Fury.
I really want to know where we got the dragon from. Our school has many mascots(and no sports teams.. go figure) but none of them are even close to the dragon. But I love the abstractness of our logo, we should praise whomever made that. Especially the one on the piece of plywood in the Physics lab... even though it looks kind of like a fish.
Dirty Harry
12-05-2003, 20:05
Our team name is Site 3 Engineering. Why? Im not exactly sure myself, but here's the story that we usually tell.
When it came time to name our team, we didnt have many good ideas...some suggestions are too stupid to mention here. But some guy came up with Side 3, which i guess is a reference to the Gundam anime. I think a side is a space colony, but im not sure since i havent seen much of it besides Wing and 8th MS team.
So, since we were afraid of copyright issues and whatnot, we distorted it to Site 3, and tagged Engineering to the end of it. I guess the name was so different from what we were used to hearing, like *school name* robotics team, so it kinda stuck.
Our robot is named Lil' Mojo partly because our president came up with it off the top of his head, and partly because our school has an interesting cheer called the MOJO, which we got to perform at the Sac and Silicon Valley Regionals.
We're just weird people...so we have weird names...Our team name is The Megaforce Squadron; it's just a corny, geeky name.
The bot name, Spicy Mustard, definitely got us recognized this year. I've been thinking about a bot name for next year, but what can top Spicy?!
xxlshortys
15-05-2003, 21:39
Well, as a nickname i call myself the Omega, i have a video production studio now under the name Omega Productions. I thought that if we used a greek letter then we would be able to wear Togas (which would be awesome). So i put up there "Some Greek letter" with the Sigma symbol meaning Sum, we ended up accidently with Sigma, and then we used to square to define that we were two rival schools that combined to form a robotics team, the sum of two cities, or sigma squared.
Jaime648
16-05-2003, 21:19
Im not really sure how we got our team name. We have had it for a few years now. This was my first year. Our robots name is OIY. Which stands for organized Illinois, Iowa youth. One of our team mates remembered hearing it so i guess thats how we got it! I know that is a weird name but it fits our team.
Jaime648
Matt Attallah
16-05-2003, 21:43
Well, our school mascot is the Cardinal. We build robots.
So "The Robocards" seemed to fit right in! :D
BBFIRSTCHICK
21-05-2003, 21:32
I took us forever to come up with a name for our team (2/3 hours or so)..... We first came up with STAR: which stood for Surviving Teammates After Ramtech... (inside joke).... then we added the S and made it STARS... and then it still did not sound right, we then added ALL.... All STARS sounded great, so we went with it . We named our 2001 bot Clarice from Hannibal..... so we decided to do something like that this year but we did not know what... On the way up to our regional like around 12 AM we were watching The Ring... and then thats when Samara came into mind, so we named toe bot Samara.
A. Leese
22-05-2003, 09:49
Originally posted by George1083
the two high schools represented by our team are South Fork High School and Martin County High School, so someone recommended:
S.A.M. = South Fork And Martin County
then someone mentioned that our sponsor Pratt & Whitney wasn't included... thus S.P.A.M. was born:
S.P.A.M. = South Fork, Pratt & Whitney, And Martin County
Wasn't it Scott who came up with it? Somehow I remember lots of caffeine and an all-night computer pin ball tournament..oh, the memories...(yes, i know, i was a little person then..i was still there!)
shyra1353
22-05-2003, 10:37
our team name is S.W.A.T. and it stands for
St. Mildred's
Women
Advancing in
Technology
because or school name is St.Mildred's-Lightbourn School (SMLS).
our robot name is MILDREAD though. so it's like Mildred, but you dread it...get it??
Gabe Salas Jr.
22-05-2003, 10:46
Team 233's official team name is, "The Space Coast Team." If I remember correctly there are three other robotics team's that originate from the Space Coast. We kept this name since we really cannot come up with a name and needed one when registering for our team.
But as for our unofficial name, "The Pink Team," is what we are most commonly known as since we wear pink. Duh. On our rookie year, the team was to hold a spirit meeting to discuss about the theme, image, and anything that may form a creative or original team identity. But as fate has it, only three girls showed up to the meeting, and thought it would be cute, and funny to have our team pink. Pink everything, including the robot. So it was decided and we did our best to make it work. Of course the rest of the guys on the team protested, and argued, but then again they really did not bother to go to the spirit meeting.
As for our team's name, we combined the names of two of our school's names, which is Rockledge High School, and Cocoa Beach High School. Thus we came up with Roccobot.
Cyberguy34000
28-03-2005, 18:37
Yeah, in response to above post, I just have to say that I can no longer think that guys wearing pink is strange. PINK dominated the Denver regional and slaughtered us in semi-finals. But they did so much off the field that was amazing. Guys wearing pink, that strikes fear into my heart now :). Don't know whether to hate or love you guys. Keep up the great work.
Anyways about the team names. We've always been Rocky Mountain Robotics, because we're based in Colorado Springs and :eek:WOW:eek: do we have a spectacular view of the rocky mountains. And we had to throw robotics on the end to say something about what we do :). Recently though, we've taken up the theme of "The Rocky Mountain Rambos" due to some amazing artist that joined the team this year, and so we all went with that name. So that's what we'll probably be membered as for future years.
Beth Sweet
28-03-2005, 18:48
Well, we have two high schools. One of our schools has a mascot named the Cheiftans and is a Native American head drawing. The other has a mascot of a comet named Winky (and yes, the comet winks). While I personally thought Winky would be a very cute name for our robot, our kids just didn't go for it... But one of our kids had the nickname "Big James." On one of the first days, we were making nametags and he said he wanted Big James on his and the mentor making the nametags thought he was trying to be a smart guy and proceeded to make to make everyone "Big" something. So our robot is Biggie and this year's motto is "Go BIG or go home!"
Lisa Perez
28-03-2005, 19:09
We also have two schools. Team 573, however, started out as just Brother Rice (the Warriors). Marian (the Mustangs) joined two years later - and some people thought the team name might pose an issue because it integrated only the Warrior theme. As a team, however, we decided we didn't want to break the tradition, and have kept our team name as the Mech Warriors ever since.
StephLee
28-03-2005, 22:02
Our team's name this year was the Garrett Coalition, because we are a team made up of the two (rival) high schools in Garrett County, MD. Our robot's name was Meshach, after Meshach Browning, a famous Garrett County hunter from a long time ago.
Freddy Schurr
29-03-2005, 00:00
EASTERN TEAM 204
WE ALWAYS ARE THE SAME, EASTERN VIKINGS. But every year we change our robot name. It is either done by the team or the sponsor that gives the most money. This year, a member parents company give us $2500, so the member came up with the name " SweetFEEET", everyone like it and that was our robot name. May that could help FIRST teams who have a hard time to figure our they robot name
Scott Chambliss
05-04-2005, 22:51
My team's name popped up at a meeting once because we are an inner-city school, and we thought that gangsters would be original. Its also ironic because we only had 2 people on our team who might be considered gangsters (yes, james and robert, I'm talking about you!). Eventually, it got changed to gangstas, but got mispelled on our shirt; ganstaz. The missing 'g' didn't stick, but the 'z' did.
Our robot was named Sir Gears-a-Lot at the first meeting, beause our school's mascot is the knight and we thought that we would be the robo-knights or something. When we actually named ourselves, we forgot that we had already sent in a robot name. Thus, when we came to regionals, we were the Grady Gearbox Gangstaz, with Sir Gears-a-Lot. Hmmm, doesn't quite fit, but nobody noticed...
BandChick
05-04-2005, 23:53
When we were just a rookie team (emo tear), there was one meeting where all we did was discuss names. We were almost "Team Neon," but ultimately the team decided on Team Mercury. A poll was run for a week on our team site to get all the students (and the rest of the community) to vote. After we picked Mercury, we decided that black and silver would be our colors. Silver, why that's obvious, of course! Mercury (the liquid) is in fact, silver. From there we decided that black matched nicely. Anyway, we went back and forth between the planet and the god and the element. I think we've ultimately settled for the god, at least this year.
So, yes, 1089 has a mascot! We do represent Mercury the Messenger, and our mascot is dressed in a silver toga. He is going to have a silver laurel and wear a black sash that reads "Mercury" on one side, and "1089" on the other. He will also at nationals, carry a Lightening bolt shaped staff as that is one of the things that our team is known for. That and wings! XD
H.O.M.E.R. Human Operated Mechanically Engineered Robot
dont know who started the name because it was over nine years ago.
I THINK???
the_short1
25-05-2005, 11:14
our robot name is Boomer cuz we have a MASSIVE BOOM!
Rafi Ahmed
25-05-2005, 12:29
Our team was taken from our team #
so 22
2- double
2-deuce
so Double Deuce
and our ROBOT name is H.O.M.E.R.
WEHickok
26-05-2005, 07:52
In our rookie year, 1997, the field was a hexagon so our team came up with the name Hyper Hex Offender Team Or H2OT (where the 2 was a subscript). Our robot was called the Offender.
The following year as the game changed we wanted to change our name but really liked HOT so we created a name to fit that...Heroes Of Tomorrow. We thought that was a fitting name since that is what FIRST is all about--inspiring students to become prepared to become the Heroes Of Tomorrow. We use HOT in our cheers since it is much easier to say than Heroes Of Tomorrow. The flames were added and have become our trademark because they imply HOT. Same with the peppers.
We changed the robot name from the Offender to the HOTBOT and that has remained since.
By the way...in our rookie year our team number was 47. (1998 was the first year to assign the numbers and keep them, partially because of our team's request.) And it was Chief Delphi (Dr. Joe Johnson) that we called for assistance after we decided to start our team. So thanks Dr. Joe!!
CourtneyB
26-05-2005, 10:59
We are two high schools, Wheeling High School (Wildcats) and Rolling Meadows High School (Mustangs). So there for we thought of being called WildStang. woohooo
dhitchco
26-05-2005, 13:23
Checklist for team name:
1) Will your sponsor or patrons be proud to repeat your team name?
2) Does it roll off the tongue? Will it sound good when the MC announces your team at a FIRST event?
3) Does the Team name look good in print? Does it require any special logo or font that can't be replicated in text type?
4) Can the team name be pronounced by a foreign (Canadian ha, ha) writer or announcer?
5) Is the team name extensible past just one game season?
6) Does your team logo/ID gracefully co-exist with the name?
There goes that "gracious" word again........just won't go away!
besides all that marketing, did you come up with a team name using a agreeded-upon team process?
Ali Ahmed
26-05-2005, 19:10
Our team was taken from our team #
so 22
2- double
2-deuce
so Double Deuce
and our ROBOT name is H.O.M.E.R.
Okay just to clarify on our team name, Double Deuce means two 2's. We chose that name when we got the number in 1998. But in 97', our rookie year, we were called the Robo-Chancellors because our school mascot was the Chatsworth Chancellor. Our team number back then was 123. And the robot name was always H.O.M.E.R. The reason it is an acronym is because one of the first members wanted to use Homer so bad that he came up with the acronym.
XtremeEagle04
26-05-2005, 19:33
Our team name is....well the Xtreme Eagles, our school's mascot is the eagle, that was pretty simple. Two years ago we decided that we needed something to represent our sponsor (Romulus GM Power-Train), so we took the XTREME from a line of trucks they produced, (S10 Xtreme, Blazer Xtreme)
1+2=fish, so thats how we got Xtreme Eagles...err something like that
KORN_lover_2007
26-05-2005, 19:48
Well, our team name has always been Panther Robotics, which is our school mascot. But our robot name for this year took a bit of time during the building. We decided that a ball shape would be a good device that can hold up tetras. We at first thought of using one of those ball-things used in toilets (sorry, I don't know what that is called), but we figured that would not be great for a nickname. So we had a small plastic bowling ball for a mini-bowling set that we thought could work. The holes in it looked like eyes and a nose. We also added two metal pieces sticking out the sides to keep the tetra more stable, which looked like arms. Remembering the lovable and funny clay-mation of Mr.Bill, we painted the the head to look like Mr.Bill. So, we got the name of our robot to be Mr.Bill.
Our team name is either the greybots or GRR. i forget which. greybots is a combination of our school mascot the greyhound and the word robot. GRR stands for Greyhound Revolutionary Robotics.
Al Skierkiewicz
27-05-2005, 07:19
Wildstang is a contraction of the Wheeling WILDcats and the Rolling Meadows MuSTANGs. The first year sudents from the two schools decided on the name and the tie-dye team uniform. Hence a legend was born.
Libby Ritchie
27-05-2005, 08:41
Well, when we first started, we couldn't think of a name, so I came up with the team name "The Bee Bots". (our school mascot is a yellow jacket) After a year of my students making fun of me and telling me that it was not working, our athletic director made a suggestion to go with Full Metal Jackets. I loved it, it didn't sound so whimpy to the kids, so we changed! Andy Baker still loves to tease me about the "Bee Bots"!! I will never live that one down.
As far as how we name our robot, we allow the team captain from the previous year to name the robot. (the captain this year will name next year's robot) We have had co-captains the past two years, so one named the robot last year and the other did this year. They get suggestions from the rest of the team, but they go with the name they like the most. It's been fun.
Meyerman
28-05-2005, 00:42
Team name RoBBE Xtreme comes from Robotics Of Bound Brook, Ethicon and the team motto thing is we take robotics to the Xtreme soo you put the 2 together you get RoBBE Xtreme. in 1997 it was Crusin' Crusaders our school mascot is a Crusader, 1998 it was RoBBE's Roadrunners no clue how that came about lol, but from 1999 on its been RoBBE Xtreme.
neilsonster
28-05-2005, 01:19
Club Sandwich... our school is called Sandwich Secondary School. Yep! Get it? Club Sandwich, it's like the thing you order at a restaurant... but we're a CLUB of people.............................wow
Double X
28-05-2005, 19:26
Our team name is Double X because we are an all girls team (two X chromosomes in girls...). :cool:
2003 DOT-Distance Over Time because we were a rookie year. It was an inspirational name
2004 Captain Caribeener- Our robot used a caribeener to hook onto the bar and well, pirates of teh Caribean was out that same time.
2005 Gnat- we had a holonomic drive train and we were really fast and we could have annoyed other robots like gnats do for people.
And our team name is the CircuitRunners. It was the only other suggested name besides Halo. I think we picked the better name.
macurtis
31-05-2005, 15:54
It's taken three years for this to catch on but I think 74 has finally landed on RoboDutch.
Robo (Robotic)
(Holland) Dutch
With there being four other robotics teams in the Holland Area, and our school teams are all the Holland Dutch, it's kinda hard to come up with something definitive. :rolleyes:
Mechatronic (Mechanical)
Maniacs (Craziness)
The Mechatronic Maniacs
It can be a tounge twister though
rocketdawg3000
04-06-2005, 01:44
Cutting Edge Robotics
We got it from the song "Living on the edge" so we changed it to living on the cutting edge of technology. And got our name from that
spamified88
05-06-2005, 21:00
Hi! I'm from team 1257-Parallel Universe. I know we got our team name from a physics book. I think we chose it because we're all kinda off kilter on our team. I'm not quite sure how we got our new logo, the robo snail, though.
Chris Sturrock
05-06-2005, 23:48
well, our team name is spartonics,
our school mascot is a spartan, we wanted to make it sound more robotic like, and eventually settled on spartonics.
our robot name, Spartek, was actually suggested as the team name, but we all voted that it sounded better for the robot.
Our logo is a robotic spartan... I think it works well with the name :rolleyes: :D
We are the Royal Knights, our school mascot is a knight.
we had SO many choices for names...including [and i'm SO glad it lost] "second robotics".
...apparently there's some kind of spin from "FIRST robotics" offa that. i just don't get it.
but our robot is SIR LANCE-A-BOT.....like lancelot....we can't reallythink of anything knight-related for a robot name so we might just have to have lance jr, lance 2, 3, 4 or something like that.
Daniel Morse
24-06-2006, 14:06
Our team name "The Dirty Birds" is derived from the early days of our team (early-mid 90's). When we were first formed, the team consisted primarily of members of the football team. At that time, the football team had a bad reputation of playing very dirty, and since our school mascot is the blackbird, the football team earned the name "The Dirty Birds". This carried over to the robotics team and stuck. Despite the negative origin of the name, we are proud to be the Dirty Birds, and there are no longer negative connotations connected to the name. By the way, there was only one football player on our team this year (thats usually around max that choose to join).
1024 = 0x400 = 2^10 = 1 Kilobyte
and then that kind of morphed to 1 Kil-A-Byte :D
-Q
Wayne C.
24-06-2006, 17:44
Raider Robotix came from our school's team the "Raiders". I still dont know what a raider is but the mascot for the school is a tough looking eagle in a tight blue sweater. I thought "raiders" were bad birds that killed baby birds in the nest. So I guess we are stuck with a name for a sinister, nest robbing, coward raptor.
The line of Evil Machines was the incidental brainchild of Mark Leone. Since 2000 we always listen to the other teams for the best name for that season's robot. In 2003, when we had the original Evil Machine, we were in a furious scrambling, pushing match for the platform in the Stack Attack game. In that round our partner accidentally got in the way and we nearly tipped them over. Mark's announcing voice chimed out "thats one evil machine- they dont like anybody!!!".
From then on the name stuck and we have had 4 Evil Machines- 2 of which made it to National finalist.
So I guess team 25 is named for killer birds and sinister mechanics. I guess that beats "the fluffy bunnies"
WC :cool:
604 was known as the Sillowhats for three years, from 2001 to 2003. In 2005 the current group of students got together and we decided to have a new name. After brainstorming a bit and not really agreeing on one name, a team member suggested Quicksilver, since San Jose has a long history of mercury mining (our school is only about 5 minutes from the Almaden Quicksilver mines). It was a great suggestion, and we all agreed.
Yet we wanted the name to be a little different, so we changed the spelling from "Quicksilver" to "Quixilver", which does look cooler when it's spelled out on out shirts and our robot. I think their is no better choice since not only does it sound good when you spell it out or say it, it also says a little about our team's history.
Go Quixilver! :D
kmcclary
24-06-2006, 18:36
We are the Royal Knights, our school mascot is a knight.
[...] our robot is SIR LANCE-A-BOT.....like lancelot....we can't reallythink of anything knight-related for a robot name so we might just have to have lance jr, lance 2, 3, 4 or something like that. Oh Wow... I'd think there would be all sorts of "knight" puns possible for robot names with that team name!
Just off the top of the noggin':
- Daze'n (Daze'n Knight)
- Silent Knight (it doesn't speak, you see...)
- Over Knight (it's the top bot...)
- The Knight Bus (for all you Harry Potter fans - it dashes, and stops suddently)
A sample of various punnish "Knights of the FIRST table":
Cir Cuit: An electrical Knight
Cir Culation: A library or spinning Knight
Ser Pent: Snake Knight (for a snake-like robot design)
or spelling it the other way:
Circus: A swearing Knight
...etc...
I'm sure you can come up with something, with a bit of warped thought!
... and if not, warped thinking is what your team's Engineers are for! :)
(And remember - One Grocer equals 144 Knights...)
Good luck!
- Keith
DevilChild
24-06-2006, 19:52
Well, our team name is the Red Devils, because that is our school's sports name and mascot, and our theme is fire and brimstone and otherwise the depths of... you know. Our robot's name is Diablo normally, and we, the Red Devils, are his minions. But we also have been known to call him Belzebot, depending on how cultish we're feeling. LOL But anyway, at the end of each season, that year's robot also gets dubbed another, more personalized name, such as Hang-Bot, Mini-Bot, and X-Bot.
Pat Fairbank
24-06-2006, 22:17
From what I understand (not having been around when Team 296 was founded), the "Northern" in our name comes from the fact that our primary sponsor in 1999 was Northern Telecom (today known as Nortel Networks) and of course the fact that we're Canadian.
As far as I know, the only reason "Knights" was picked was that "Northern Knights" sounds kind of like "northern lights".
Oh Wow... I'd think there would be all sorts of "knight" puns possible for robot names with that team name!
Just off the top of the noggin':
- Daze'n (Daze'n Knight)
- Silent Knight (it doesn't speak, you see...)
- Over Knight (it's the top bot...)
- The Knight Bus (for all you Harry Potter fans - it dashes, and stops suddently)
A sample of various punnish "Knights of the FIRST table":
Cir Cuit: An electrical Knight
Cir Culation: A library or spinning Knight
Ser Pent: Snake Knight (for a snake-like robot design)
or spelling it the other way:
Circus: A swearing Knight
...etc...
I'm sure you can come up with something, with a bit of warped thought!
... and if not, warped thinking is what your team's Engineers are for! :)
(And remember - One Grocer equals 144 Knights...)
Good luck!
- Keith
cute ideas! i'm putting this on the team forum....
and about the engineers...uhm....we're rookies. i'm sad to admit...we don't have any. seriously. none.
so...warped thinking left to us, i guess.
Oh boy, team names. Our team's currently in its fourth generation when it comes to team names, and we'll yell at anyone who tries to change it again.
Back in 2001 we started out as Mr. Roboto. Someone listened to too much music, I honestly don't know how that name came about.
In 2002 and 2003 we were the Radio-active Pajama Monkeys (named after our official furry mascot (http://www.team498.org/spirit.htm)). In 2003 we usually just referred to ourselves as RPM as most people didn't like the name anymore.
In 2004 we became the Armor Plated Serpentines because our school mascot is a Cobra (we're the Cactus Cobras), and came up with a nice metallic snake for our logo.
In 2005 and 2006 we kept the same logo from before but changed to the Cobra Commanders as it sounded slightly cooler, and it was a nice joke to GI Joe.
So now we have three mascots, a cobra, a cactus, and a monkey. Most of our robots have either been RoboCobra Version X, or RAGE for our monkey.
Pavan Dave
25-06-2006, 00:09
Team Name - Robonauts
How we got it - Most of our engineers work for NASA and build robots. They worked on one project called Robonaut, and that is how we got our name.
-Pavan Dave.
Nuttyman54
25-06-2006, 02:29
We've been through three names so far as I know. Rookie year (2002) we were "Einstein's Minions", which sounds really cool, and I don't know why (or when) it was switched to "RoboSpartans", (Spartans is the school mascot) and now to the even more mundane "Spartan Robotics". We may revert back to Einstein's Minions, but they'll probably do something having to do with our pants (for those who saw us in Galileo this year)...the current favorite is "Fance Pants Revolution", which may be just cheesy enough to be cool.
Team 1519's name came from our FLL team Mindstorms M a y h e m who won the Director's Award at the 2004 FLL World Festival in only their second year! As a result, the LEGO Corporation gave us a challenge grant to start an FRC team! So, Mechanical M a y h e m was started in 2005 with graduates from the FLL team. We competed at the BAE Granite State Regional and came home with the Rookie Inspiration Award.
We also started a 501(c)(3) organization called M a y h e m Inc. M a y h e m stands for Milford Area Youth Homeschoolers Enriching Minds because we are a mainly homeschooled team.
Another team began in 2004 called More M a y h e m whose members are mainly siblings of the members of the original team.
Our rookie year's robot was called "Elvis, King of Rack and Rail"
We recently reused it's drivebase for our "three day bot" that we made for M a y h e m in Merrimack. It was called "Elvis Reloaded".
Our 2006 robot was called "Sgt. York" after the WW1 hero.
LPaton716
25-06-2006, 17:04
People actually often ask where our name comes from. Our team comes from Housatonic Valley Regional HS (pronounced "Hoo sa tonic") nicknamed Housy (hoo see). We transformed that into Who'sC and thus we are the Who'sCTEKS.
After deciding on that name the question mark symbol seemed rather fitting. Our chemistry teacher can manipulate tye-dye so that it doesn't run too much and creates all of the team shirts.
This symbol has proved to be very marketable. And, it's fun to draw so I like it. Our other mascot is a frog because of the cartoon of a frog refusing to be swallowed by a stork. Hence our motto "Don't ever give up."
The robots...1st robot was Reggie 1 for Region One, our school district. Then Reggie 2 and 3 because no one changed it. But having three reggies was getting confusing so we continued the "who" theme with Housywhat'sit and Housywhere'sit.
And last year's Jeremiah after Jeremiah the bullfrog.
Next year's name is undecided but so far I vote for the Who'sizzit. (Who's is it)
Dan Petrovic
25-06-2006, 19:30
166's robots in past years have been named Tommy Hawk, a play on words of the school's mascot: the Tomahawk.
There have been different names in between the Tommy Hawks. Tommy Hawk V was the last Tommy Hawk back in 2004. Last year our robot was named Otis relating to Otis elevators, and this year it was named Scorpio because the shooter resembles a scorpion tail.
I have no idea about the team name, though.
987HighRoller
25-06-2006, 21:30
Team we got our name from where we live..........VEGAS!!!
James1902
25-06-2006, 22:18
Sometimes names just pop up in the most unusual ways. 1902 was originally going to be named Organized Chaos but one of the design days one of our programmers asked roughly when the robot was going to be in a condition to program and some one said when pigs fly. We were all a bit slap happy at this time because we had been at my house for a pretty long time and a couple of the students started speculating on ways to make pigs fly without wings. One of the obvious solutions was to strap it to a rocket. One of the girls looked up with a horrified look on her face and said "but some rockets explode." At witch we all laughed and someone put it into the very fun term of "Exploding Bacon" and we ran with it. :D
Well, we're from The Harker School, and our team name is simply Harker Robotics...
The robots' names tend to be deliberately misspelled physics-y terms.
2003-"Tork," 2004-"Phorce," 2006-"Vektor"
2005, "Spark," was the exception. A lot of people wanted to call it "Sparq" or "Spork" but majority ruled for "Spark."
Martinez
26-06-2006, 14:14
ehh... our team originally began as the LITTLES, which stood for the schools that were on the team... which are now three different teams - 84, 222, 284
team 84 became SWATT the first year which stood for the school that brandched of from the LITTLES, and the schools that joined up in that area
the third year of our existence we became WATTNESS, and have been ever since.
W - Waverly, NY
A - Athens, PA
T - Troy, PA
T - Towanda, PA
NE - NorhtEast Bradford, PA
SS - School Systems
our Robot's name was originally the Charminator the year of the LITTLES, because the sponsor was Charmin.
The name evolved into Chuck from the Chuck Taylor All Star shoes. For the first 4 years of team 84, Chuck changed slightly with numbers..... Chuck, ChuckR2, Chuck Pi, Chuck IV. However, the fifth year, the Robot became just Chuck, and it is referred to as Chuck by others....... (within our team, we still give them varying 'number' names to identify them; Chuck the 5th; Chuck N Moose.
...... hmmmm???? wonder what this years 'identification' name will become... only time will tell!
I guess now we know! The name Wattness has come and gone as High Schools have dropped out, but the name Chuck always remains. Chuck X proudly took the field for our tenth season. The team name has become Chuck 84, seeing as our team number is 84.
There are three urban legends how Division by Zero (229) got its name.
1) In math, dividing by zero is impossible but taking the limit of such a number yields infinity hence a slogan: Infinite Possiblities.
2) One of the students didn't know you can't divid by zero, it became an in house joke and the name stuck.
3) The initial two seasons were a shaky start and the team had the potential of folding. Someone noted that when you divid by zero on a calculator it says ERROR, so the team may have been one big error.
Early seasons the name was Ice Warriors and Northern Styx (since Potsdam is located in the frozen waste lands of New York haha), but for what ever reason the team went with Division by Zero and had a very successful year. Just like brand recognition the name, logo, robot name followed by the Green and Gold colors have stayed so others would know who they are.
It may be extremely nerdy, but I really like this name. Very unique and sticks in my head. Had some fun robot names with it to: Undefined, Denominator, and Irrational.
irishninja
26-06-2006, 16:35
I know this doesn't have to do with robot names, but its a funny story about a geeky team naming themselves that my math teacher told me. He use to teach in Texas. Because of this, all the sports teams named themselves the Oilers. When he started a math team, the principle suggested the name of the Oilers so they would fit in with the rest of the school. My math teacher came back the next day with a different name, pronounced the same way. The Eulers.
True Story.
double_check
27-06-2006, 08:44
Well, my team has a fairly interesting that people can recognize from pop culture when they hear it. I'm from 692 or St. Francis High School. It's an all girls Catholic school and our team name is the Fembots. I'm not exactly sure who came up with it or why but I know we got it from Austin Powers. Our robots have had the names Camelot, Anklebiter, and the Precious. Camelot came about because it looked like a castle and one day I said someone said I dub thee Camelot and dubbed it with a pool noodle that was supposed to be used for bumpers. Anklebiter is from programming the robot so only motor would run and the robot would spin in circles trying to take out people's ankles during build season. The Precious is from Lord of the Rings obviously.
JaneYoung
29-06-2006, 10:57
This is a little long.
- The team's high school is LBJ High School and their school colors are purple and white. The school mascot is the jaguar.
- Austin has a colony of bats that nest under the Congress bridge, the Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). They are a seasonal tourist attraction due to their daily foraging migrations at sunset.
- Austin has a minor league hockey team, the Ice Bats, named in honor of these bats. This hockey team formed about the time our team was looking for a name.
When it came time to register the team for FIRST, the name for the team was slow in developing. Finally with deadline approaching, our teacher, Mr. Tony Bertucci, told the team that if they didn't come up with a name, he was going to name the team, The Robo Bats. The team didn't like that and came up with Purple Haze with 2 thoughts in mind. They thought it still worked with the school colors and they thought they knew something their teacher didn't. They figured he wouldn't have any idea who Jimi Hendrix was or know anything about Purple Haze and that it would be an inside joke. They got that part wrong but the name stuck. Every couple of years or so, we tie dye tees for the team and this year our bumpers were tie dyed.
MChapman
29-06-2006, 13:48
Alright...ACES High does seem a bit odd but this is our story behind that: When our team was just Windsor Locks kids the team was the Raiders after the WL mascot. But while at competitions all the students ever did was play cards. So when Suffield joined the team and they continued the playing cards tradition we changed our name to ACES High. Now our robots in past years have just been named either randomly or named with mentors names...however this year we kept with the card theme an Pokerface became the name of our robot...an our moto.."Lying down the Card." :D
Go ACES!! :p
mandraque
01-09-2006, 19:36
Also, our robot's name this year is "Furious George," named after everyone's favorite childhood primate, Curious George.
btw..my favorite chilhood primate is the little donkey kong. our robot name was letters and numbers for the year i think.....i hope that changes this year...
The team name "team Element" , was an idea by one of team members.
originally, it was supposed to kind of give our team the theme of the "four elements" (fire,water etc.) since we're team 4.
but after a little while, we realized that the four elements sisnt really have anything to do with robotics/FIRST so we looked through different options.
Wendy Wooten then gave us the idea of the "elements of FIRST robotics"
which later led us to turn ELEMENT into an acronym to represent what we as a team thought FIRST is all about.
from this, element stood for:
E-ngineering
L-eadership
E-ducation
M-entoring
E-ntrepreneurship
N-etworking
T-eamwork
as for our Phoenix mascot, we chose it to represent "rising from the ashes/ a new beginning, etc."
Nuttyman54
03-09-2006, 11:37
which later led us to turn ELEMENT into an acronym to represent what we as a team thought FIRST is all about.
yaaaay for backronyms!
jackie Ha
03-09-2006, 13:54
well, our names has always been RAWC, but the team logo has changed. RAWC, Robotics Alliance of West Covina, our mentor came up with that. our logo, at first, no offense, was an ugly bulldog, posing or something. then our mentor travis desgined a new one, the one that we use today.
CourtneyB
03-09-2006, 19:09
Wild=Wheeling High School WILDCATS
Stang-Rolling Meadows High School muSTANGS
hehe
-Court-
FourPenguins
05-09-2006, 18:16
MORT (Mount Olive Robotics Team) is a bit self explanatory once you know what it stands for.
We don't often name our robots. They usually only get names in the post season, and usually they're just descriptors to tell them apart (the one w/ the wings, etc) Last year's robot's arm was known as the Saldefector, because it was an end-effector supervised by a mentor named Sal.
This year's robot was the first with a name. Just about everyone on the team is a Homestar Runner fan, and when someone proposed we call the 'bot the Rad Rad Robotank, it stuck. The original shooter had the RRRT stenciled on. 'Twas badass.
Josh Murphy
05-09-2006, 18:29
We got our name bsically by our school mascot, which is a Chief and Delphi is our founding partner so we called ourselves "Chief Delphi". :)
The name and number says it all.
2^10=1024=1kilobyte => kil-a-bytes
-Q
skimoose
06-09-2006, 19:27
How our team and robot names became "Gus".
Wow I can't believe no one from our team has posted this yet. For those of you who would like to read the LONG version of this story go here! (http://www.team228.org/team/history/1999/)
The short version is "Gus" is what was left of our original robot's name, which was either Augustus Roboticus Maximus or Spartigus (spelled wrong) Roboticus Maximus (depending on who you ask). Our rookie team name was the Tri-Town Duct Tape Bandits, since we were originally made up of students from Meriden, Rocky Hill, and Wolcott, CT.
Like nearly every rookie team, our robot was 18 pounds over weight. In the process of lightening the bot, the team had to resort to cutting up our 1/4" thick aluminum nameplate. First went Maximus, then went Roboticus, in desperation they began cutting up what was left, and finally made weight with "Gus" being all that was left of our nameplate. :ahh:
Gus stuck as the robot's name and in 2000 we changed our team name to Gus since duct tape is a no-no in FIRST. :eek:
Lastly, when Wolcott left our team to form a sister team, team #1071, they honored the roots of our common history by taking the name "Max" which was culled from Maximus. Thanks Max! :D
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