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It's official, BERT's robot name for 2014 is "Pneuman".
aka: "Newman"

For all the pneumatics on it this year, because we/they ususally don't use much pneumatics.. or any if possible.

This year they decided to go with it, seems to work great!

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Circuitrunners Team 1002s motto is "Move from Potential to Kinetic" and although we haven't named our robot yet, there is a funny backstory to our outreach robot's name.
In 2012, we had a turntable on our basketball shooter. Our robot weighed too much, so it had to go. That year's robot then got the name TRFKAT (The Robot Formerly Known As Turntable). Then, when we repurposed it as a t-shirt launcher this year, we renamed it to be TRFKAT^2 (The Robot Formerly Known As The Robot Formerly Known As Turntable).

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We avoided pneumatics for years, because we didn't know what we were doing and were afraid of messing up our whole season. We played with them as an off-season project and came to the conclusion that, um, yeah, everyone should have pneumatics in their wheelhouse when they're brainstorming, prototyping, and planning. Congrats on taking the plunge!

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Last year our robot was named Stanley, this year it'll be the funk! Our team is named "That One Team"

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We always build a prototype along with our competition robot, and their names always play off of each other.
Last year was Dante + Inferno.
This year is Gemini + Apollo.
#soNASA

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We named our robot Charles Darwin this year. We always name the robot after someone who made a large contribution to a STEM field.

Also because we can call the robot Chuck, which is tragically ironic because the only thing we can't do this year is throw the ball...

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Team 3512 always names our robots after Greek or Roman history.

2011 Thermopylae (the battle depicted in the movie 300), Thermo for short.

2012 Leonidas (Spartan King who lead the battle of Thermopylae), Leo for short

2013 Cynisca (a Greek princess of Sparta, the first woman to win at the ancient Olympic Games.)

2014 Wouldn't you like to know.... :P

Team motto: "It's not about the Robot"

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Our Team Name this year is "Patribots" because that's our school mascot and it sounds cool. Last year's was No Robot!, a terrible inside joke.
We haven't named our robot yet.
Our unofficial motto is "Robot first, food second, safety third".

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My team's unofficial motto is probably "Why the heck is this not working!?!"
for the robot name, we haven't officially named it, but someone named the cRIO "Marco" and I named the program "Polo"

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In 2011 our robot's name was "Nessie" because it kind of resembled the Loch-ness monster
2012 was the year of "Buzz LightGear" because of the buzzing noise its shooter made, and the large (but light) sheetmetal gear we used to turn the turret
2013 was named "Brodie" after the self proclaimed Frisbee Trick Shot Specialist

We named several of our tools in the lab: for example, our deburring knives are Deborah, and Debbie (it is a sin to not know who is who), and our rubber mallet is called "the 12% mallet" because someone wrote "1296" on it in sharpie in such a way that the 96 looked like a % and our programmer mistook it.

Our motto is simply "drive it like you stole it"

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Team 1675 - The Ultimate Protection Squad
Past Motto: Theory Becomes Reality
Current Motto: Creating new heroes through science and technology

Robot Names:
2005 - Super Uper
2006 - Super Uper II (AKA Holey Ghost)
2007 - Super Uper Mark III (AKA SkyCrane)
2008 - Mach 1675
2009 - Nom-V
2010 - Uptimus Prime Six
2011 - UPtiSaurus Rex
2012 - UPtiuS Irving
2013 - UPpollo'S Chariot
2014 - ???? (Hint - slight theme change for 10th anniversary)

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No offical robot name yet, but our team motto has always been "The mind is a terrible thing to lose"

Although when our team first began someone accidently but The mind is a terrible thing to use on our t-shirts which stuck for two years XD until someone finally said we should probably fix this.

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This year we named our robot TigerLily( Tily for short ) because our mascot is a tiger and tiger Lilies are orange flowers that look like they have Tiger Stripes.
Quote from a student on why its a good name" Because the name symbols our beauty and how fierce we are in competition"

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Last year competition robot was Willow because our drive thought it looked like the whale from Whale Trail. The practice bot was Odwalla. Our motto is "Girls Engineering Tomorrow."

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We haven't come up with a name for this years robot(Although I know most of the team wants to name it OMNOMNOM), but our team motto has always been "Think Outside The 'Bots". As for past robots, here is the list I found:
2007 -The Initiator
2008 -Turbo Talon
2009 -The Hulk
2010 -Technosaurus Rex
2011 -Loki a.k.a: "The Game"
2012 -Air Thordan
2013 -King Cobra