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I guess now we know! The name Wattness has come and gone as High Schools have dropped out, but the name Chuck always remains. Chuck X proudly took the field for our tenth season. The team name has become Chuck 84, seeing as our team number is 84.

There are three urban legends how Division by Zero (229) got its name.
1) In math, dividing by zero is impossible but taking the limit of such a number yields infinity hence a slogan: Infinite Possiblities.
2) One of the students didn't know you can't divid by zero, it became an in house joke and the name stuck.
3) The initial two seasons were a shaky start and the team had the potential of folding. Someone noted that when you divid by zero on a calculator it says ERROR, so the team may have been one big error.

Early seasons the name was Ice Warriors and Northern Styx (since Potsdam is located in the frozen waste lands of New York haha), but for what ever reason the team went with Division by Zero and had a very successful year. Just like brand recognition the name, logo, robot name followed by the Green and Gold colors have stayed so others would know who they are.

It may be extremely nerdy, but I really like this name. Very unique and sticks in my head. Had some fun robot names with it to: Undefined, Denominator, and Irrational.

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I know this doesn't have to do with robot names, but its a funny story about a geeky team naming themselves that my math teacher told me. He use to teach in Texas. Because of this, all the sports teams named themselves the Oilers. When he started a math team, the principle suggested the name of the Oilers so they would fit in with the rest of the school. My math teacher came back the next day with a different name, pronounced the same way. The Eulers.

True Story.

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Well, my team has a fairly interesting that people can recognize from pop culture when they hear it. I'm from 692 or St. Francis High School. It's an all girls Catholic school and our team name is the Fembots. I'm not exactly sure who came up with it or why but I know we got it from Austin Powers. Our robots have had the names Camelot, Anklebiter, and the Precious. Camelot came about because it looked like a castle and one day I said someone said I dub thee Camelot and dubbed it with a pool noodle that was supposed to be used for bumpers. Anklebiter is from programming the robot so only motor would run and the robot would spin in circles trying to take out people's ankles during build season. The Precious is from Lord of the Rings obviously.

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This is a little long.
- The team's high school is LBJ High School and their school colors are purple and white. The school mascot is the jaguar.
- Austin has a colony of bats that nest under the Congress bridge, the Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). They are a seasonal tourist attraction due to their daily foraging migrations at sunset.
- Austin has a minor league hockey team, the Ice Bats, named in honor of these bats. This hockey team formed about the time our team was looking for a name.
When it came time to register the team for FIRST, the name for the team was slow in developing. Finally with deadline approaching, our teacher, Mr. Tony Bertucci, told the team that if they didn't come up with a name, he was going to name the team, The Robo Bats. The team didn't like that and came up with Purple Haze with 2 thoughts in mind. They thought it still worked with the school colors and they thought they knew something their teacher didn't. They figured he wouldn't have any idea who Jimi Hendrix was or know anything about Purple Haze and that it would be an inside joke. They got that part wrong but the name stuck. Every couple of years or so, we tie dye tees for the team and this year our bumpers were tie dyed.

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Alright...ACES High does seem a bit odd but this is our story behind that: When our team was just Windsor Locks kids the team was the Raiders after the WL mascot. But while at competitions all the students ever did was play cards. So when Suffield joined the team and they continued the playing cards tradition we changed our name to ACES High. Now our robots in past years have just been named either randomly or named with mentors names...however this year we kept with the card theme an Pokerface became the name of our robot...an our moto.."Lying down the Card." :D

Go ACES!! :p

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btw..my favorite chilhood primate is the little donkey kong. our robot name was letters and numbers for the year i think.....i hope that changes this year...

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The team name "team Element" , was an idea by one of team members.

originally, it was supposed to kind of give our team the theme of the "four elements" (fire,water etc.) since we're team 4.

but after a little while, we realized that the four elements sisnt really have anything to do with robotics/FIRST so we looked through different options.

Wendy Wooten then gave us the idea of the "elements of FIRST robotics"
which later led us to turn ELEMENT into an acronym to represent what we as a team thought FIRST is all about.

from this, element stood for:

E-ngineering
L-eadership
E-ducation
M-entoring
E-ntrepreneurship
N-etworking
T-eamwork


as for our Phoenix mascot, we chose it to represent "rising from the ashes/ a new beginning, etc."

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yaaaay for backronyms!

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well, our names has always been RAWC, but the team logo has changed. RAWC, Robotics Alliance of West Covina, our mentor came up with that. our logo, at first, no offense, was an ugly bulldog, posing or something. then our mentor travis desgined a new one, the one that we use today.

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Wild=Wheeling High School WILDCATS
Stang-Rolling Meadows High School muSTANGS

hehe
-Court-

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MORT (Mount Olive Robotics Team) is a bit self explanatory once you know what it stands for.
We don't often name our robots. They usually only get names in the post season, and usually they're just descriptors to tell them apart (the one w/ the wings, etc) Last year's robot's arm was known as the Saldefector, because it was an end-effector supervised by a mentor named Sal.
This year's robot was the first with a name. Just about everyone on the team is a Homestar Runner fan, and when someone proposed we call the 'bot the Rad Rad Robotank, it stuck. The original shooter had the RRRT stenciled on. 'Twas badass.

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We got our name bsically by our school mascot, which is a Chief and Delphi is our founding partner so we called ourselves "Chief Delphi". :)

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The name and number says it all.

2^10=1024=1kilobyte => kil-a-bytes

-Q

Re: Team Names – Gus and Max?
 

How our team and robot names became "Gus".

Wow I can't believe no one from our team has posted this yet. For those of you who would like to read the LONG version of this story go here!

The short version is "Gus" is what was left of our original robot's name, which was either Augustus Roboticus Maximus or Spartigus (spelled wrong) Roboticus Maximus (depending on who you ask). Our rookie team name was the Tri-Town Duct Tape Bandits, since we were originally made up of students from Meriden, Rocky Hill, and Wolcott, CT.

Like nearly every rookie team, our robot was 18 pounds over weight. In the process of lightening the bot, the team had to resort to cutting up our 1/4" thick aluminum nameplate. First went Maximus, then went Roboticus, in desperation they began cutting up what was left, and finally made weight with "Gus" being all that was left of our nameplate. :ahh:

Gus stuck as the robot's name and in 2000 we changed our team name to Gus since duct tape is a no-no in FIRST. :eek:

Lastly, when Wolcott left our team to form a sister team, team #1071, they honored the roots of our common history by taking the name "Max" which was culled from Maximus. Thanks Max! :D