Team Mottos

[Barry Bonzack]

I am curious to hear other team mottos since not all of them are stuck on shirts and buttons. I assume we will decide our motto on Dec 2. at our next meeting, I plan on just throwing out a couple suggestions and we just vote on one. Do you feel a motto should be humorous, or should it reflect the goals of your team?

If you are part of a powerhouse team and your motto has been around for a while and haven't ever gotten the chance to make one, then I'd like to invite all to help come up with suggestions for my team and I'll pick some of my favorites to bring to the meeting next thursday.

We are the Harmony Hurricanes, so I was thinking something like "Our eye is on the future."

[Dorienne]

I think it should reflect the goals of your team.
Your team motto is shown on the FIRST website, your team website, and in the booklets each team gets every year at regionals and at Kickoff. Every team will see it, including people who work with other teams and volunteers. It should reflect what your team is all about, if no one knows of your team offhand.
Our team motto has, I think, always been "Bringing Maryland Business Together". Mainly because we're pretty much run like a business, and we work with a lot of contrasting businesses. It really is a way to bring all sorts of businesses together.
As for your motto you thought of, it's excellent! I like that one a lot. I don't think I could make up something better than that, since I'm not as creative as some. =)
Good thread, BB!

[BandChick]

Personally, make it something that makes your team happy. 1089s motto, doesn't actually reflect the team in any way, but we all laugh whenever we hear it. Team Mercury is "Home of the Purple Monkey." Yeah, it doesn't make sense, I know. But it's also a conversation piece. People always want to know what on earth a purple monkey has to do with mercury.

We've also tried out things like "We're an element...of surprise!" and "Mercury Rising!" So yes, they can be silly things related to your team. In addition, here's my suggestion:

Harmony Hurricanes: We're blowing past the competition

[Elgin Clock]

Team 237 is known as an alernate name of the T.R.I.B.E., but how many of you actually know what that stands for?

Well, it's:

Taking
Robotics
Into
Bold
Experiences

It was first our motto, and then some announcers just started calling us the Tribe.
(Not to be confused with Team 224, The Tribe from Piscataway HS in NJ, of who I have a shirt from. :) )

[Jaine Perotti]

Our team motto used to be "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"... but we got rid of it because it was kind of corny and it didn't really reflect our team -- no one really liked it and there was no meaning behind it.

Last year however, Andy Brockway, our engineer, showed us a cartoon of a frog, about to be swallowed by a bird (a pelican I think?). Even though it looked like the frog was doomed, the frog had it's hands around the bird's throat... trying to strangle it and make it let go. Underneath the picture, the caption said "Never Give Up!" ... and now the phrase "Be the Frog" has been our motto ever since.

For a team motto, I would recommend something that speaks for the team, and is meaningful for some reason. One of the reasons we like "Be the Frog" so much is that we come from a very rural area, have limited resources and have a small team. We have a disadvantage without large corperate sponsorships and technical advisors (we have only 1 engineer to help us). I guess the feeling of us overcoming these roadblocks, and STILL managing to be a very sucessful team, gives meaning to a depiction of the underdog overcoming the challenges set before them. Our team was unanimous about choosing the phrase "Be The Frog", because in a sense, we ARE the frog. We will never give up because we know that we have what it takes to overcome the challenges we face.

In short, choose something that reflects your team's situation, speaks for the team's goals, and is inspirational to your team members.

[JVN]

"We don't build robots, we build engineers."

When you graduate after 4-years as a 229 mentor, you're probably a helluva enginerd. (If you graduate ;)).

[Koko Ed]

"Education is our passport to the future. The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

[Alaina]

Our team motto always depends on our robot's name. Well, not really, but it does change every year, just like the robot name does...

For example, Blondie Girl is our 2004 robot. She's the first metal robot we've ever made. Turns out, we didn't like working with metal since we're so inexperienced with it. So our current motto is "Do not metal in the affairs of robots."

I personally prefer the humorous mottos over the goal-based ones...

[Mr MOE]

Being the Miracle Workerz, the motto of Team 365 is

"Making Miracles Happen"

an off-shoot of this we use is

"Making Miracles Happen - One Student at a Time"

Previously, we had a the motto

"Carpe MOE - Seize the MOEment"

[Bcahn836]

Our motto is Bee all you can bee.
after all we are the Robobees

[Lisa Perez]

"Engineering with attitude!"

Our team exactly :p

[TLonghorns0593]

Our motto is "Student Conceived, Student Achieved"
It means pretty much what it says. Our robot is designed, built, and driven by student team members.

[Steve W]

Base your motto on something that has meaning to your team. It is a good idea to pick a motto that will last. Our team was the first Canadian team to join FIRST so we used the motto "The Force From the North" and our robot is Blizzard.

[Ali Ahmed]

Our motto represents what our team is about, "Sharing The Passion". I think it fits because that is what we won the Chairmans Award for.

[nparikh]

Our team, Raider Robotix (25), has the motto: "Nothing is beyond our reach," Which I think fits with our team in that ever since our formation years ago, we have been striving to do better and achieve greater things. We know that if we believe in ourselves, nothing can stop us!

[Zzyzx]

Team Motto: "Building the Foundations of Tomorrow with the Minds of Young People"

[Joe Troy]

The motto for Team 357, Royal Assault is "Dare Mighty Things". The motto comes from an inspirational speech given by President Theodore Roosevelt.

" Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." ~ Teddy Roosevelt

The motto represents the team's philosophy both on and off the field. :D

[theory6]

Team name: theory6 (Team Hansen Experience of Robotic Youth)
Our motto: "The end is just the beginning..."

[Julia Magoolia]

At first, we had the motto "It's a robot thing" Throughout the year, while working on Chairman's Award, we thought really hard about it and added to small words. "It's not just a robot thing" This reflects the outreach that our team does, and our everyday attitude- FIRST Isn't just about the robots, it's about Gracious Professionalism, co-opetition, and outreach also.

[Billfred]

As of 2004, 1293's motto was "We're on a mission from Bob."

(Bob, for the record, is our overbuilt, window motor, electrical-tape numbered robot from last year. Which we finally pried the plexiglass top from tonight. It's only been...seven months.)

There have been rumblings of changing that, but if I were a betting man, I'd put my money on the above.

[flowerpower]

Our team motto is
We build People

[Elgin Clock]

Our team motto is
We build People
And the "Welcome to the Garden" saying, which I thought was very appropriate to a team who's main mascot and theme is a flower.

Let's hear it for co-ordination!

[Bethnix1247]

why not be funny about your team's motto while still "saying" what your team reflects?? :D

[Stephen Kowski]

"improvise, adapt, overcome" Which is what we are always having to do.

[denote]

"We wish we may, we wish we might, have this robot finished tonight!" :rolleyes:

[KathieK]

Team Name: Robotics and Gadget Engineering
Team Mission: "Motivate, innovate, educate."
Saying on our Robot: "Hi Mom!"
2004 Motto (our tenth anniversary): 10 Years and Still Hangin'

[Yov]

how about "hurricanes- we may blow but we don't suck"

[dlavery]

Actually, one of my personal favorites is the motto of the Space Systems Lab (http://www.ssl.umd.edu/) at the University of Maryland. It is not a motto adopted by any FIRST teams (yet), but it is SO appropriate!

"Building the technology of tomorrow - sometime late tonight!"

-dave

[Ken Loyd]

Back in 1997 when we were starting our team, we selected "We Really Bite!" in reference to the bite of a Gila Monster.

Over the years we have evolved into, "If selected, we will do whatever you ask of us or leave parts of our robot on the floor trying!

I am not sure that the motto should become the team mission statement. Make the motto lively so that other teams will notice you. As a rookie, getting noticed is one of the most important parts of a competition.

Ken

[Levin571]

Ours is:

If it still works, it isn't complicated enough.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

I always liked...
"Never giveup, never surrender"
And a public television favorite...
"It ain't over till the fat lady sings!" (Referenced to a Wagner Opera ending.)

[phrontist]

"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy" - Red Green ;)

[Yov]

"Team 1657- We finish what we"

^ not real motto

[BillyGoats]

For the 10+ years of team 61, it has always been. "Keep It Simple" I don't think we will every change this because it works year in and year out! :D

[Venkatesh]

We had:

"Don't mess with the best 'cause the best don't mess."
"Good luck and Duct Tape"
"In Eric we Trust, in Venky we bust"
"Cosine, Tangent, Secant, Sine, 3.14159!"

[N7UJJ]

"There is no spoon" from the movie Matrix

[lilszek24]

Ours is victory in our grasp...basically because of our talon logo. (the claw)

[Dested]

Last years was "We drive it like we stole it", but our teacher sponser last year didnt like it to much, so this year its

"All your bots are belong to us"

:-)

[Marygrace]

Two Rival Schools, One Team...Ride the Tide!

[TNT280Staff]

TEAM "TnT" 280

"We've already won, just getting it done!"

[Gabriel]

When I was on 782 I remember pushing for Deus Ex Machina. Thankfully that one was rejected.

[YLDNWLY]

Our motto is:

KLAATU BARADA NIKTO

It is from the 1951 movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still", and it was the first Hollywood movie to have a robot in it. It probably means, "Klaatu says, do not destroy the world." This works well with our team name which is C.R.E.A.T.E. which stands for Chaparral Robotic Engineers and Techno Explorers. So we say, do not destroy the world, create a better one through robotics and engineering!

[Peter Matteson]

Our motto is:

KLAATU BARADA NIKTO


Also the line Brue Cambell can't remember when grabbing the Necronomicon in Army of Darkness. :D

I thought of a good one for first overall though based on an inside joke of the Fuel Cell industry.

FIRST, creating the engineers of tommorrow and always will will be.

[Alex Golec]

Team 469, Las Guerrillas, has always been:

Do It As A Team

As far as I've remembered and researched, there has never been an application for our team nor has there been any division of the team into subgroups (ex. Drive, Charimans, etc.)- the team is a cooperative effort.

_Alex

[i_am_Doug]

team 1425 :]



"DON'T WORRY ITS ONLY TEMPERY"

were gona change it soon.....i think :confused:

[The Dude]

well our original motto is "its only temporary... unless it works" we were going to go with "arbitrarily complex" last year but we stuck with the original.

[Goobergunch]

Team 1168's motto is "Bots Back In Business", demonstrating that we're back in a new year (despite fairly heavy losses due to graduation) and we're going to do even better this year than last year.

And yes, we tend to be on the "less serious motto" side of the debate. :)

[Marinesniper77]

Our last team motto was "Adapt and Overcome" but at a recent meeting, we changed it to "Citius Altius Fortius" (Faster, Higher, Stronger).

I think both are pretty darn good but the club picked the second one.

[[527]phil]

team 527's motto this year is "our dragon breathes fire, especially when wired incorrectly"

[Rabbit222]

Team 222 is:
TECHNOLOGY ON THE PROWL

[Mr. Van]

Team 599, the Robo-Dox from Granada Hills in CA have tried to relate their motto to the name of the robot each year and they express the sentiments of the team after working long hours. (The first two years we didn't use this idea for the motto.) Someone asked, so here they are:

2001- Robot: "The D.O.C.T.O.R." (Drastically Over-Complicated Team Operated Robot)
Motto: "Deus Ex Machina" (Somebody had to use it...)

2002 - Robot: "The Surgeon, M.D."
Motto: "Deus Ex Machina"

2003 - Robot: "The Therapist"
Motto: "So... Do you want to talk about it...?"

2004 - Robot: "The Dentist"
Motto: "Now...This won't hurt a bit..."

2005- Robot: "The Psychiatrist"
Motto: "Its all in your head - er, programming"

Suggestions for 2006?

-Mr. Van
Coach, 599