Team Mottos and Slogans 2008 Edition

[Akash Rastogi]

Saw an old thread from 05 and wanted to bring something like it back up. So, what is your team motto? How did it come about? What's the story behind it and does it really represent your team?

Ours has always been "FIRST we will be best, then we will be FIRST." Mind you, this was our school's motto before our own so I personally don't feel anything when I hear it.

Something that we continuously brought up in Atlanta was team culture and I think the motto should represent your team.
I want to make our new motto "Doing what we do, and moving forward." If you were at our team meetings, you would so understand its depth.

So, out of curiosity, I want to hear yours and the reasoning and depth behinds its words.

[Koko Ed]

Our team motto this year was We Not Me.
It replaced a previous motto that no one really had an idea what it stood for called K.R.A.N.K. T.H.A.T.
http://www.x-cats.org/images/wenotme_small.png

[Rick TYler]

Team Exothermic Robotics
Motto: "It was on fire when we got here."

[AndyB]

Team 171
Motto: Shake and Bake

[Lowfategg]

Team Overdrive 2007/2008: Lock & Load, BABY!

It was meant to say GET THAT GOAL for Quad Quandary this year.

[vikram31291]

1086 is Blue Cheese and I guess we've had two slogan's/mottos this year: "A Slice of FIRST" and "Stay Sharp." :D

[khemathunder09]

Team 2080
Motto: "Learn to build, build to play, play to win."

[James1902]

"where pigs fly" Because we really thought we wern't gonna make it through our first build season two years ago.

Plus we've found a couple of fun ways to levitate pigs:D

[Herodotus]

Team 910
The Foley Freeze
Motto: Stopping Our Opponents Cold

A play on words and all of that fun stuff. :p

[Greg Peshek]

Before I joined 665 our motto was Getting Impossible Results, due to the highly random nature of results that come from our robots, and a combination of inside jokes.

This year, two years after our switch to the team name MAYHEM (Making Absurd Yet Highly Engineered Machines), we changed our motto over to It Works... In Theory. That motto is kind of the story of our team, we design and everything should work well, but something always ends up getting botched in the execution. Or we just get some result that can't be predicted beforehand. So now when we talk about our ideas, we add the disclaimer, it works in theory.

-Greg

[1086VEX]

1086 is Blue Cheese and I guess we've had two slogan's/mottos this year: "A Slice of FIRST" and "Stay Sharp." :D

add to that "It ain't easy being cheesy!"

[Billfred]

TIMS doesn't show any official motto for 1618, but Capital Robotics more or less purloined The Standard Is Excellence, a phrase first seen around the school with the former principal whose name escapes me. (The school has moved away from it for the most part; as the USC student, I'm always the last to know.)

Within the team, several catchphrases have developed. Tell anyone in the shop to act like they've got some sense, and someone will invariably chime in with "What would your grandmother say?". The kids are still working on the Crank That Billfred (silently shaking one's head back and forth in disapproval), but I doubt that one will be lighting up YouTube anytime soon.

[OZ_341]

"We Build People!"

[micbel9]

Team 2337's AAAAAAAAAA-Boom could be heard throughout the Curie stands.

[jtdowney]

Precision Guessworks had the motto "Seeing red again" as we returned our team colors to red and black. Between the mentors we also had a motto of "Exceeding the minimum requirements."

[IndySam]

for 2008 we used "Raising the Bar"

[SSMike]

Team 250 - The Dynamos
Motto: "The Possibilities are Endless"

Personally I liked the idea of saying "close catapault" in 08 when we launched the trackball (from the movie "The Sandlot") in addition to this motto

[zivo123]

team 1690 - the answer
"We came
We saw
We tipped over"
:)

[feliks_rosenber]

Team 2669 - "Robots are great, but it is greater we're not robots"

[Priyadarshy]

While on the field: "Drive it like you stole it" (Also the name of our ROBOT)

[smurfgirl]

While on the field: "Drive it like you stole it" (Also the name of our ROBOT)

That's what our coach always tells our drivers. (-:

The UberBots, Team 1124
Official Motto: We eat Kryptonite for breakfast!

We voted on that motto two years ago before we needed to fill in the information for TIMS, continuing on the superman theme of our team. However, we think we've outgrown that motto as a team, and were looking to replace it. My suggestion, which I used as a campaign slogan when I ran for team president last spring, is "It's not just about building a robot, it's about building a team". I think that's what best represents our team at this point in our history.

[jtdowney]

While on the field: "Drive it like you stole it" (Also the name of our ROBOT)

That was on the side of HBR's (1747) robot as well. So we wanted to put "We drive it like a rental" on the back of ours.

[abaca3131]

for Team 1736 robot casserole it was:
Casserole is ready!

[Josh Goodman]

Team 1511
"The Thunder just keeps getting louder."

[Spider-Man]

Our team motto this year was We Not Me.
It replaced a previous motto that no one really had an idea what it stood for called K.R.A.N.K. T.H.A.T.
http://www.x-cats.org/images/wenotme_small.png

Our motto on 467 has been "We Not Me" for some time now.
"We" don't have a problem with the X-Cats spreading that message as part of the "Us" that is FIRST.

There was a funny incident when one of our students was asked early in the season what our motto was and blurted out the following gem: "We Not Us!" We had a long, hearty laugh.

[Dhananjay T.]

For many years, Team 25's motto has been:

"Nothing is beyond our reach"

Of course, we also use

CHAK DE!
25

:P

[lasereyes]

Team 2551's 2008 Motto:
"Like socks on a chicken!"

[hoorayforpink]

I don't really think we have a real team motto, but I'm pushing for us to start using this one I came up with a couple days ago.

"The Pink Team: now scared of Canadians."

[dsmoker]

Ours is "From the basement to beyond!!" It came about because we started off building in the school's basement, in this dingy room with no natural light. We were crammed in literally in a small corner of a storage area, surrounded by stuff like boxes of paper. Now we've made it at least part way to "beyond," as when we finished as a regional finalist in 2006 the school gave us a nice big room on the first floor with plenty of windows that's all ours!!

[Blue_Mist]

Ours is officially From Concept to Reality, but I always wanted ROGUE- Randomly Over-Gearing Unusual Engineering.

[lasereyes]

I don't really think we have a real team motto, but I'm pushing for us to start using this one I came up with a couple days ago.

"The Pink Team: now scared of Canadians."

lol. I agree.

[Drwurm]

"Two rival schools; one extreme team"

[B_Dubbs]

Team 1153
"Join the Revolution"

[Scott Carpman]

SciBorgs FRC 1155
"Practice Random Acts of Genius"
"Rising to the Challenge"

[Cow Bell Solo]

Ours is "We're Not just ODD... We're PRIME" comeing from our team nickname PRIME 329 which that comes from our Team number which is 2207 which is the 329 prime number.

[techtiger1]

Lol in regards to the member of the pink teams post I thought all Floridians were sufficiently scared of Canadians already. Anyway back on topic I am saying that 1251 is adopting this quote for 2008 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.-Aristotle". One of the most appropriate quotes for a FIRST team I think.

[EricLeifermann]

Team 857- Superior Roboworks
our motto is "Spreading FIRST to the ends of the Earth"

We are in Houghton Michigan, way up in the U.P

[GaryVoshol]

You mean like this: http://curlyburly.smugmug.com/gallery/237216_hV5Ua

[hipsterjr]

Sure, your bot can score...
But can it dance?!

[Rick TYler]

You mean like this: http://curlyburly.smugmug.com/gallery/237216_hV5Ua

I loved the comment on the linked page that the UP has the best Chinese food in the midwest. Isn't that like saying San Antonio has the best Kosher deli in Texas? It might be true, but it doesn't mean much...

[Bobwhite2337]

Team 857- Superior Roboworks
our motto is "Spreading FIRST to the ends of the Earth"

We are in Houghton Michigan, way up in the U.P


Houghton may not be quite the end of the Earth, but I think you can see it from there. :rolleyes:

While we did not have an official motto, one of our mentors is fond of the saying "Embrace your inner nerdness"

[Spiders]

our motto is "In It To Share It"

[dodar]

man ours would have to be: "Dude! if it ain't factory, it ain't right"

[falconmaster]

"there is no spoon" from the Matrix

[EricLeifermann]

You mean like this: http://curlyburly.smugmug.com/gallery/237216_hV5Ua

YEA LOL! Just like that! I laugh every time I see it in the school store when I buy my books.

[Aren_Hill]

In theory....

but that applies to almost everything.

and of course "whats broken now?", "nothing?..WHAT!?!?"

[SayDeeM8194]

Our Team Motto: "Live to Build, Build to Win!"

This came about through our love of build season and the challenge and our strong need to win and exceed expectations.

[Iboshi2]

Team 716
Team Motto:
"Don't ever give up"

[ADHDassassin]

This wasn't for our FIRST team but our BEST motto was: "Don't worry about it"

Seeing as I was president for my High Schools BEST team and it was held at my house I grew to hate this phrase...

Scenario:
After turning around I find that my "team members" had found my blowtorch, which I had hidden that they wouldn't use it, and had lit all the pine needles on my driveway on fire. I flip out, "what the #^*^#%@*^*@ is going on!!!!!?" :ahh:

The answer: "Don't worry about it"

[christina_omg]

if its not bolted down TAKE IT!

[Blue_Mist]

if its not bolted down TAKE IT!

If it is find a wrench and a pair of pliers, unbolt it and THEN take it!

Sorry, couldn't resist... Problem with FIRST is that it leaves you with the impression that you can do anything. Thing is, most of the time, the impression is right. :rolleyes: