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We named our robot Frizz-Bee.

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Our motto this year is "Welcome to the Vortex. Resistance is Futile." This was coined by a few of our mentors who described the irresistible pull of FIRST and TechBrick Robotics as "the vortex"... our team name helped us to come up with the rest. We've found many applications for the slogan.

Our 2013 robot is named Kelvin. It helps to tie together our lengthy team name in a concise and cool (no pun intended) statement. ;)

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2067's robot names

2013: Zippy
2012: Mantis
2011: Littlefoot

I don't know what our names were before then, though :P

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Our robot's name is always a variation of SAM. It's a dual acronym for:

- Small And Mighty (our team motto), and
- Salem's Awesome Machine (we're located in Salem County, NJ)

Our motto is based on the fact that being located in a more rural area, we tend to have a smaller number of students than many. Nevertheless, we remain a competitive, award-winning team.

Usually the robot name is also based off of robot functionality. Here's our current and some of our past robot names:

2013 - Sure Shot SAM - Because when we shoot, we intend to score :D
2012 - Sam Swoosh - Our favorite sound that year
2011 - Sam Shark - Our pickup mechanism this year snapped up the tube quickly, and made some of the team members think of a shark.

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Since we are The GreenVillains, and outreach is a major part of our team, our motto is "Infiltrating Young Minds One Robot at a Time".

As for our robot name, this year we were planning of having a pyramid climbing robot with a series of hooks attached to two chains. Because of this, a lot of people wanted to name the robot Two Chainz. We ended up not naming the robot that, half due to Two Chainz explicit music, and half due to the fact that we had to remove our 30 point climber before competition :(

We ended up naming the robot "Captain Hooks" after out 10 point hang system. We are thinking of naming all of our robots after villains now to continue with the GreenVillain theme.

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We always build a prototype and competition robot simultaneously (other than the prototype being a week and a half ahead of the competition bot), so their names always play off of each other.

This year we had Dante (the prototype) and Inferno (competition bot).

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Team 587's robot is called Willie Climb because it was the question of the season if the robot would climb

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Same here! Depending on who you talked to, our robot's name was either Tron(as it has LEDs and throws discs) or Lucario (for its resemblance to the blue Pokemon):D

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Our robot is named "Serenity". No particular reason, it was the best out of all the other options. I like it because it shows there's more to our gameplay than ramming into things and shooting fast projectiles (disks, nothing to worry about... yet).

Our team motto is from the days of old (i.e. 2010 or prior): "We will Graciously and Professionally Spike you"

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Our robots name is science and our team name is SHARP
its an acronym which stand for Sarah Heinz Advance Robotics Program
we are a team from one of the boys and girls clubs of America :)

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We have never named our robot and unofficially our motto is "Never Done" from a video we made a long time ago.

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My team, STORM Robotics, names their robot every year like the weather stations name storms (alphabetically and by reversing gender). For example, during breakaway our robot was named Brave Beckham. Then it was Crimson Claw during logomotion and last year it was Donald Duct.

This year it was an E and a female so 2729's robot name is Electra!

Also our team motto is: "Fall 27 times, Stand up 29."

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Our team motto as of last year: "Building Engineers One Robot at a Time"
Befor that it was "Soaring With The Eagles"

Our robot names usually have something to do with the robot's characteristics.
2010: Rex (a student named it "Kicka$$asauras Rex", like a dinasaur)
2011: Jack (robust design, Quality award winner, annoucer said "It could double as a floor jack for Dean Kamen's Hummer", we named it after comp.)
2012: Arty (as in artillery: shooting balls at great distances)
2013: Sherman (as in sherman tank, it was 120.00 lbs even at weigh in)


Other fun facts:

Our team name is "Bonny Eagle Robotics Team"
(associated with Bonny Eagle High School, Standish Maine)
Nicknames we use "BERT" or "BERT 133" or "B.E.R.T."

Our logo was created by the students in 2010-2011, a Scottish eagle/coat of arms. We've adjusted the logo a little every year since for the tshirts and advertising, but keeping the over all concept for continuity.

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Team 1923 has named their robot "Ro-BART" this year, in honor of a team parent and mentor who passed this year - my dad.

They will be honoring him at the Championship this year, and it means so much to me and to my family.

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1625 has had a variety of names over the years!
2009: Snuggles
2010: Little Bridges
2011: Mr. Cringerpants
2012: Esmeralda the Cycloptic T-Rex Boxer
and 2013: Dale (In honor of our EXTREMELY supportive sponsor, Dale Falconer, who recently fell very ill.)

Our motto has bounced around from time to time, but I think the one we all agree on is: "In theory, it should work."