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We are the Cool GEeks.

We have two mottos:

1) We're the coolest geeks you'll ever meet.

2) There are 10 kinds of people in this world: us Cool Geeks and those who have no idea what we're talking about.

....you really don't know binary, do you?

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Since 2815 is sponsored by the University of South Carolina, the robot has always been named after its mascot, the gamecock. From newest to oldest, Cocket Launcher, Incocknito, Cockasaurus Rex, CockADoodleDoo, Cocked & Loaded.

(Judge advisors have historically made it far too obvious when we're about to get an award; the award citation almost always has "Cocky" worked in.)

The motto that seems to have stuck recently is #WinAnyway, lovingly stolen borrowed from our back-to-back College World Series champion baseball team. We've had worse.

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For the last couple years, our robots have been named after stars-- last year was Antares, this year was Betelgeuse.

Our team's motto is "Lighting up Robotics!"
We're the team that plasters blue LEDs on everything. We actually have a specific group in our electronics team devoted to lighting things up. This year they created some nifty wristbands and light-up safety glasses (don't worry, they're still functional!).

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Our robot has been named Big MO for a very long time, to the point where people were mistaking it for our team name (it helped that that was what was on our shirts), and this year when our shirts said our actual name, Megatron Oracles, on them instead of Big MO, no one really remembered who we were until we told them big MO lol.

we have two mottos for our team, one is "Building future leaders of tomorrow" and the other is "Work hard, play harder, but above all, be committed to excellence"

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We typically name our robots something clever that highlights a feature of the robot or the game. Starting in 2006:
DaNazbot I don't know the origins of that name
Ringmaster was for Rack and Roll
Rolling Thunder had a "cannon"
Thy Grinder had a horrible grinding sound making turret
Cpt. Ahab and Ahab V2 IRI edition because they had hooks
Gridzilla with the grid
Starscream aka the Appendage
The Pizza Box cause it's awesome.

Official team motto is driven to succeed, unofficial is shafty

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robot name:alpha strike. When you saw it, you have to whisper it, softly.

team motto: "I don't know what you're talking about" said sarcastically of course . or "it's fine...." when it clearly isnt. :D

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Clearly DaNazbot was an homage to Jim Nazworthy. I may have to start calling him that.

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Team 587 makes use of a standardized name scheme... it is the nicknames that count.

Logo Motion - Kevin - born of a striking resemblance to the bird 'kevin' in pixar's UP
Rebound rumble - CJ - cant jump... 'cus white boy cant jump but he sure can shoot
Ultimate ascent - Willie Climb - wasnt that just our question of the season... ;)

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Our robot typically is named after a mechanical/programming program we had during build. 2011 was Twitch, 2012 was Derp (It had a little derpy arm that tried to move the bridge down), and 2013 was Ratchet (We lost one in the robot at one point) or Chatterbox (motors would chatter when idle) depending on who you talk to.

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Our robot's name is He-Man, The Most Powerful Robot in The Universe! Our practice bot was Adam, Prince of Eternia!

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our team moto is "never give up" and are mascot is the frog, therefore our robot this year is named robofrog. our team name Is WhoC'tecks. the way that we came up with this is our school name "Housatonic or Housy for short "Which gave us the whoC' then tecks came for technology.

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The motto our team adopted this year eas "Just good enough". The task at hand was tough, the build season growing shorter. So, as we went along the fabrication path the motto came to be used more an more. It may not be fancy but it's "just good enough."

So far, our robots have been named for one word, female name, rock song titles.
2012 - Roxanne
2013 - Lola

We'll see if the tradition sticks?

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Our naming trend for the past couple years has been starting with a letter to eventually spell out DRAGON (as in the Mech Tech Dragons). So far we have:

Dante
Redemption
Ahab
Geoffrey
Orion
Nidhoggr

This year's robot, Nidhoggr (pronounced Nid-Hog), is a dragon who eats the World Tree in Norse mythology.

Not sure what we'll do next year though, since this trend's ending this year!

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4531's motto: "Quid faceres si non timeret?" or "What would you do if you did not fear?"

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Our robot's name is "Sir Angst-A-Lot" and our second robot's name is "Lady Something-Or-Other" :)