Help With Robotics Team Name
 

Our school robotics team just got school board approval last night. We are now trying to come up with a name for our team. We are from Washington Community High School, in Illinois and our mascot is the Panther. Our School colors are orange and black.

Any suggestions are good, except tornado jokes...too soon

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Using the Panter mascot is probably not a great idea since it's fairly overused (40 panther teams already in existence, but hey, the eagle situation is worse at 104 teams). I would just brainstorm some cool, memorable names. There doesn't necessarily need to be a connection to the school.

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The Washington Machines.

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It should be what the students want. A lot of teams use acronyms as their name (107 Team R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.) some of them use random name generators to come up with thier name (1902 Exploding Bacon) and then there are some teams with some goofy names (217 Thunderchickens).

But by far, best name ever (in my opinion) is 326 Teamsuperpowermaticultramegasuperlativeawesometast icdelcioushowlingunieagles

Yes that is their name.

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A team name should ideally be distinctive, not "bad"*, and something that everyone can really get behind as a brand and team identity. Many are serious, many are humorous.

Is your team only from the one school? Any chance you might have students from elsewhere in the future? An identity separate from the school, however, isn't any better or worse than one tied to it.

One idea might be Tazewell County Tigers, so you could use the school colors, but not be a panther. But don't let the Internet tell you what to do.



*By "bad", I'm generalizing to say that it should be, say, "Washington Community High School Robotics Team"**, something hateful, or the like.
**unless that made a cool acronym, but WCHSRT isn't

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Well, if you're from Washington HS, maybe something presidential?

Robot Commanders-In-Chief
Leaders of the FRC World
ROTUS
The Executives

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The Squares (your town has a lovely town square, IIRC).
Do you know what your team number is going to be? Sometimes that will give you some inspiration.

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But not The FEDS. :D

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^^ This. (It made me laugh out loud at the cleverness of it, and I know I would definitely remember your team name afterward.)

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Washington Washers?
Washers?
According to CowScout there isn't 1 team with washer in there name.
Just make sure you check the name on CowScout ad the blue alliance. Theirs nothing that made me more mad than finding out that some newer team copied our name and claims to be the first.

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Remind me, is "Yooper Troopers" team 3771 (defunct) or team 4988?

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Does it have to have your school's name or mascot in it? I mean, a lot of other schools don't. What is around your school that you wouldn't mind having be the name for your team for years to come?

(Pi)nthers (Pi + Panthers)

Washington Wildcats (not sure if this is taken)

Panthers^10º (panthers to the 10th degree or the year the school was founded like 1982 so Panthers^82º)

There's so much to come up with. These are just to get an idea of perhaps incorporating science and technology in the name. Or you can be different and use food. lol

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I am just going to add Washerton to the list.

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Hmm...maybe something catchy like Washbotics? Or Illonoids?

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I actually like the Washington Machines

You might want to see if the students on the team want to take a vote on the name you'll use, and whatever name your team chooses you should be sure to stick with it, just to have a consistent image throughout the years. At first we were simply known as Adams Robotics, but instead built our team image on AdamBots for over a decade now (pay no attention to the one year we were called the Golden Eyes).

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Agreed. Whatever you end up with, try to get people to committed to it and build a brand around it. Even if you end up going with something relatively "less interesting," build an identity, whether it's with lights or washing machine hats or anything else. Your team's branding is the first thing people notice, to the point of making your name less important (example, my team, Blue Twilight, doesn't use Blue Twilight so much as Team 2220, and most of our branding is LEDs everywhere and stars).

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I like.

I like a lot.

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This is just the kind of tongue-in-cheek humor that makes a team's name perfect.

My idea for my team's name when we first started was Team Titanic. We'd build extravagant machines, only to watch them fail horribly! I think Team Titanium worked out better in the end.

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+1 for Washington Machines. So much potential with that.

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Washing machine with a presidential seal anyone?

They aren't from Washington DC

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Fire breathing rubber duckies

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I've always thought Plain White Tees would be a cool name!

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Have your team make a bunch of names and then have a vote on it.
Perhaps use something that the team is interested in as a base for a name.

Since you are going to be a rookie team the name can change.

Our rookie year we were named the Roboriders. We did not know about CD then nor did much research into team names. We were kind of thrown into FIRST by a grant that we were given, though never applied. Very overwhelmed at the beginning, so you are already doing well by being here and getting some feedback..

Our school team names are the Waveriders.. makes sense since were are in Hawaii and surfing was invented here... We were very fortunate to go to the world championships our first year..

After hearing about every variation of Robo*.* we knew our name HAD to change. We had a new name picked out by the time the plane landed.

From then on we became Tiki Technologies aka Tiki Techs!

Wonderfully there was no team name even close. Though we did kick around something with coconuts but that was used by another team, go figure, whom we have met at worlds and are a wonderful team! We didn't want to take away from their name or cause any confusion. Since it was confusing to us hearing so many variations of Robo*.*

So come up with a few names and search to see if there is something similar..

It turned out that changing our name was the best thing for us. Much easier to market our team and far more memorable.

+1 to the Washington Machines.. Funny, and you can name your robots maytag, bosch, etc..

Good luck and have fun with the naming of your team.

Aloha!

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Pick this name and I will send you parts. Washing machine parts. :D

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Cough cough

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When my team was brainstorming team names for our Rookie year (last year!), we got everyone together and made a giant list. Every suggestion made it onto that list no matter how ridiculous until we had ~6 pages. We narrowed down some obvious no-go's like Scorpion Kickers, Meatloaf, and Brobotics. Omit anything with a copyright- Hobbit or Sonic Screwdrivers- unless you want to go through the process of gaining the rights to use that name. (I just pulled up our old list and had a good laugh about some.) We narrowed it down to four names: 5UP3RN0V4, STEMpunk, Mentally Buoyant, and Laser Shark Commando Squad.
After we couldn't narrow them down by votes, we thought about marketing and image. STEMpunk won at the agreement of all.

Because you'll want to have a team name that lasts, I think it's important to have agreement at the beginning because that consensus will most likely last if you're able to build upon an image.

Then go after maytag for sponsorship.

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The Department of Redundancy Department. :D

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Ok, so I totally missed that one.

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Too Funny! I thought the same thing when i first saw the suggestion. lol

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Our name does not have to include our school name and it doesn't have to include our mascot either. We are waiting on our number but we are expecting high 4000's but we really want the # 5000. So far I like the Washington machines and Illinoids. Our school won't have members from other teams or from around our county. Thanks for all the help though sorry for being so late on the reply I've been busy with school.

I personally like the Washington machines it's very witty and it seems like people will actually get the pun of it.