Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

We're trying to make an awesome t-shirt for the beginning of the school year for our FRC and FTC program. On the back of the shirt, we want to put reasons why you should join robotics. We got input from our team, but we need your help. Please give us a one to three word response about why you joined robotics.

We're trying to re-brand our team and want to start off our season with a bang, so if you have any other cool ideas for advertising please let us know.

Some of the things we have so far (we may or may not use all of these) are:

• Programming
• Computer Aided Design
• Electronics
• Pneumatics
• Math
• Engineering
• Science
• Technology
• Power Tools
• Building Stuff
• Travel
• Public Speaking
• Promotion
• Leadership
• Website design
• Social Media
• Event Planning
• Photography
• Video Production
• Press Releases
• App Design
• Opportunities
• Exciting Friendship Experience
• Gracious Professionalism
• Girls/Guys in STEM
• Fun
• Competition

Thank you! :) :) :)

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

This thread might help

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...light=one+word

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

Thanks for your help! I didn't see that one when I looked.

If anyone had others to add, though, that would be awesome.

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I don't know if your team has this aspect, but mine has a budding financial team (currently me and a mentor), so you could mention finance. Didn't join for it, stayed for it though :) .

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Scholarships are a pretty big draw for some people.

If you wanted it in three words, I could quote the scholarship video from last year:

"Apply, apply, apply!"

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It looks like you left out I & R (Inspiretion and Recognition).

They're a bit longer than some of yours, but "Sport for the Mind" and "Hardest Fun You'll Ever Have" grab the attention.

Also:

• Innovation
• Creativity
• Teamwork
• Smell of Solder
• Grease and Aluminum Shavings
• Craftsmanship
• Strategy

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"I joined the FIRST Robotics team because I love sniffing solder and covering my hands in grease and aluminum shavings!"
-probably someone somewhere

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

Don't worry you don't need to keep it a secret anymore.

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While it's not why I started mentoring, I grew up with a ham radio dad who loved to tinker. Burning resin is as much a "smell of home" as a pot of gumbo simmering or chocolate chip cookies baking.

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Learn how to succeed

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Free food. Friends. Self-esteem.

(Plus the smell of the build shop grows on you. I love covering my hands in grease and aluminum shavings, its a great exfoliator.)

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For the groupies/fans, of course.

Sneaking a little humor into the list is probably a good idea.

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Super rad safety glasses

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I love all these. Some other ideas are:

• goats
• duct tape comes in many colors
• possibility of taking over the world someday
• zip ties
• pizza for every meal
• more duct tape
• flame throwers
• possibility of explosions at each meeting
• duct tape (need I say more?)

Does anyone have any more funny ones?

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

Here's some older ones:

"The Super Bowl of Smarts"
"The Hardest Fun You'll Ever Have"
"The ONLY Sport Where Everyone Can Turn Pro"


One or two of these were official FIRST lines back a "few" years ago.

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A+ reasons right there

the thing that kept me hooked in robotics was being able to observe the brilliance of others (I mean, I got to see simbot sideswipe... UP CLOSE). So, "solving real challenges brilliantly" ?

or alternatively, "the one place where you can seem like a good dancer," and "gaining early support of our future robot overlords" those are too long, but I am not a concise person

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

I think you've missed the easiest one:

Robots!

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

Extremely Cheesy Music!

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

and even more extremely cheesy dancing.

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

And even more extremely cheesy Poofs

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

And even more extremely cheesecake

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And even more extremely corndog.

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....uhhh, chute door?

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Yes.

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

That's alot of cheese. Are you sure you're talking about reasons to join a robotics team or reasons to avoid one? :D

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

Hey man, what's your problem with Cheese? :p

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

So this is what I got from the last couple posts:

• So much cheese!!!!
  
• Chute door?
• Yes chute door.
  
• corn dogs (What's the deal with corn dogs?)

:D :D :D

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

Jared Russell from 254 wanted to see if Frank read Chief Delphi.


Frank's response was:

Jared + Mentors - Corndogs = Memes

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

Soooo we blame jared for life's problems?
problems being not enough corndogs

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Thanks to everyone who helped. Here is a first draft of the back of our t-shirt. We still need to make a few changes, so if you have any input on the design please let me know. There are a couple of inside jokes ("swumming" is spelled correctly).

Now I am hungry for corn dogs. Where are the free corn dogs when you need them?

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That's a fantastic design! :D
I would say put more hashtags or remove the one there is to preserve a kind of homogenity. "Pizza!" looks like "Pizzd".
Also- "Swumming"? :P

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No "Getting in 'good' with our future robotic overlords"?

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Enhanced general competence.

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Meeting people
Addiction
Rick Astley


Will it be possible to get one of those shirts?

Re: Need help: reasons to join a robotics team (words and phrases)
 

the hashtag kinda makes omgrobots work... seems weird without it. and yes, a lot of the words that have an "a" as the last or second to last letter look like "d"s instead

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Just wondering, what font did you use for that?

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Pokemon font!

We are changing our name to Team Rocket, based on the comedy relief villains in Pokemon. It's to connect more with our school (mascot is the Rockets) while having a touch of the robotics culture. Everyone has liked it so far. We'll probably make the "R" on the front more of an outline next printing.

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Team 20 is The Rocketeers, but at 2013 River Rage (an off-season competition), we had much of the team dressed with white shirts and red R's as "Team Rocket". For selecting our second partner, our field representative and our first pick's field representative (151) read off the entire Team Rocket chant in order to select 190.

If this isn't already a part of your branding plan, it should be because it was fantastic, and with a little extra effort (not spray painted red R's on white t-shirts and more enthusiasm on the field), it could be legendary.