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I took us forever to come up with a name for our team (2/3 hours or so)..... We first came up with STAR: which stood for Surviving Teammates After Ramtech... (inside joke).... then we added the S and made it STARS... and then it still did not sound right, we then added ALL.... All STARS sounded great, so we went with it . We named our 2001 bot Clarice from Hannibal..... so we decided to do something like that this year but we did not know what... On the way up to our regional like around 12 AM we were watching The Ring... and then thats when Samara came into mind, so we named toe bot Samara.

Wasn't it Scott who came up with it? Somehow I remember lots of caffeine and an all-night computer pin ball tournament..oh, the memories...(yes, i know, i was a little person then..i was still there!)

our team name is S.W.A.T. and it stands for
St. Mildred's
Women
Advancing in
Technology
because or school name is St.Mildred's-Lightbourn School (SMLS).
our robot name is MILDREAD though. so it's like Mildred, but you dread it...get it??

Team 233's official team name is, "The Space Coast Team." If I remember correctly there are three other robotics team's that originate from the Space Coast. We kept this name since we really cannot come up with a name and needed one when registering for our team.

But as for our unofficial name, "The Pink Team," is what we are most commonly known as since we wear pink. Duh. On our rookie year, the team was to hold a spirit meeting to discuss about the theme, image, and anything that may form a creative or original team identity. But as fate has it, only three girls showed up to the meeting, and thought it would be cute, and funny to have our team pink. Pink everything, including the robot. So it was decided and we did our best to make it work. Of course the rest of the guys on the team protested, and argued, but then again they really did not bother to go to the spirit meeting.

As for our team's name, we combined the names of two of our school's names, which is Rockledge High School, and Cocoa Beach High School. Thus we came up with Roccobot.

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Yeah, in response to above post, I just have to say that I can no longer think that guys wearing pink is strange. PINK dominated the Denver regional and slaughtered us in semi-finals. But they did so much off the field that was amazing. Guys wearing pink, that strikes fear into my heart now :). Don't know whether to hate or love you guys. Keep up the great work.

Anyways about the team names. We've always been Rocky Mountain Robotics, because we're based in Colorado Springs and :eek:WOW:eek: do we have a spectacular view of the rocky mountains. And we had to throw robotics on the end to say something about what we do :). Recently though, we've taken up the theme of "The Rocky Mountain Rambos" due to some amazing artist that joined the team this year, and so we all went with that name. So that's what we'll probably be membered as for future years.

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Well, we have two high schools. One of our schools has a mascot named the Cheiftans and is a Native American head drawing. The other has a mascot of a comet named Winky (and yes, the comet winks). While I personally thought Winky would be a very cute name for our robot, our kids just didn't go for it... But one of our kids had the nickname "Big James." On one of the first days, we were making nametags and he said he wanted Big James on his and the mentor making the nametags thought he was trying to be a smart guy and proceeded to make to make everyone "Big" something. So our robot is Biggie and this year's motto is "Go BIG or go home!"

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We also have two schools. Team 573, however, started out as just Brother Rice (the Warriors). Marian (the Mustangs) joined two years later - and some people thought the team name might pose an issue because it integrated only the Warrior theme. As a team, however, we decided we didn't want to break the tradition, and have kept our team name as the Mech Warriors ever since.

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Our team's name this year was the Garrett Coalition, because we are a team made up of the two (rival) high schools in Garrett County, MD. Our robot's name was Meshach, after Meshach Browning, a famous Garrett County hunter from a long time ago.

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EASTERN TEAM 204

WE ALWAYS ARE THE SAME, EASTERN VIKINGS. But every year we change our robot name. It is either done by the team or the sponsor that gives the most money. This year, a member parents company give us $2500, so the member came up with the name " SweetFEEET", everyone like it and that was our robot name. May that could help FIRST teams who have a hard time to figure our they robot name

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My team's name popped up at a meeting once because we are an inner-city school, and we thought that gangsters would be original. Its also ironic because we only had 2 people on our team who might be considered gangsters (yes, james and robert, I'm talking about you!). Eventually, it got changed to gangstas, but got mispelled on our shirt; ganstaz. The missing 'g' didn't stick, but the 'z' did.
Our robot was named Sir Gears-a-Lot at the first meeting, beause our school's mascot is the knight and we thought that we would be the robo-knights or something. When we actually named ourselves, we forgot that we had already sent in a robot name. Thus, when we came to regionals, we were the Grady Gearbox Gangstaz, with Sir Gears-a-Lot. Hmmm, doesn't quite fit, but nobody noticed...

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When we were just a rookie team (emo tear), there was one meeting where all we did was discuss names. We were almost "Team Neon," but ultimately the team decided on Team Mercury. A poll was run for a week on our team site to get all the students (and the rest of the community) to vote. After we picked Mercury, we decided that black and silver would be our colors. Silver, why that's obvious, of course! Mercury (the liquid) is in fact, silver. From there we decided that black matched nicely. Anyway, we went back and forth between the planet and the god and the element. I think we've ultimately settled for the god, at least this year.

So, yes, 1089 has a mascot! We do represent Mercury the Messenger, and our mascot is dressed in a silver toga. He is going to have a silver laurel and wear a black sash that reads "Mercury" on one side, and "1089" on the other. He will also at nationals, carry a Lightening bolt shaped staff as that is one of the things that our team is known for. That and wings! XD

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H.O.M.E.R. Human Operated Mechanically Engineered Robot
dont know who started the name because it was over nine years ago.
I THINK???

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our robot name is Boomer cuz we have a MASSIVE BOOM!

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Our team was taken from our team #
so 22
2- double
2-deuce
so Double Deuce

and our ROBOT name is H.O.M.E.R.

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In our rookie year, 1997, the field was a hexagon so our team came up with the name Hyper Hex Offender Team Or H2OT (where the 2 was a subscript). Our robot was called the Offender.

The following year as the game changed we wanted to change our name but really liked HOT so we created a name to fit that...Heroes Of Tomorrow. We thought that was a fitting name since that is what FIRST is all about--inspiring students to become prepared to become the Heroes Of Tomorrow. We use HOT in our cheers since it is much easier to say than Heroes Of Tomorrow. The flames were added and have become our trademark because they imply HOT. Same with the peppers.

We changed the robot name from the Offender to the HOTBOT and that has remained since.

By the way...in our rookie year our team number was 47. (1998 was the first year to assign the numbers and keep them, partially because of our team's request.) And it was Chief Delphi (Dr. Joe Johnson) that we called for assistance after we decided to start our team. So thanks Dr. Joe!!

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We are two high schools, Wheeling High School (Wildcats) and Rolling Meadows High School (Mustangs). So there for we thought of being called WildStang. woohooo

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Checklist for team name:

1) Will your sponsor or patrons be proud to repeat your team name?
2) Does it roll off the tongue? Will it sound good when the MC announces your team at a FIRST event?
3) Does the Team name look good in print? Does it require any special logo or font that can't be replicated in text type?
4) Can the team name be pronounced by a foreign (Canadian ha, ha) writer or announcer?
5) Is the team name extensible past just one game season?
6) Does your team logo/ID gracefully co-exist with the name?

There goes that "gracious" word again........just won't go away!

besides all that marketing, did you come up with a team name using a agreeded-upon team process?

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Okay just to clarify on our team name, Double Deuce means two 2's. We chose that name when we got the number in 1998. But in 97', our rookie year, we were called the Robo-Chancellors because our school mascot was the Chatsworth Chancellor. Our team number back then was 123. And the robot name was always H.O.M.E.R. The reason it is an acronym is because one of the first members wanted to use Homer so bad that he came up with the acronym.

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Our team name is....well the Xtreme Eagles, our school's mascot is the eagle, that was pretty simple. Two years ago we decided that we needed something to represent our sponsor (Romulus GM Power-Train), so we took the XTREME from a line of trucks they produced, (S10 Xtreme, Blazer Xtreme)

1+2=fish, so thats how we got Xtreme Eagles...err something like that

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Well, our team name has always been Panther Robotics, which is our school mascot. But our robot name for this year took a bit of time during the building. We decided that a ball shape would be a good device that can hold up tetras. We at first thought of using one of those ball-things used in toilets (sorry, I don't know what that is called), but we figured that would not be great for a nickname. So we had a small plastic bowling ball for a mini-bowling set that we thought could work. The holes in it looked like eyes and a nose. We also added two metal pieces sticking out the sides to keep the tetra more stable, which looked like arms. Remembering the lovable and funny clay-mation of Mr.Bill, we painted the the head to look like Mr.Bill. So, we got the name of our robot to be Mr.Bill.

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Our team name is either the greybots or GRR. i forget which. greybots is a combination of our school mascot the greyhound and the word robot. GRR stands for Greyhound Revolutionary Robotics.

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Wildstang is a contraction of the Wheeling WILDcats and the Rolling Meadows MuSTANGs. The first year sudents from the two schools decided on the name and the tie-dye team uniform. Hence a legend was born.

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Well, when we first started, we couldn't think of a name, so I came up with the team name "The Bee Bots". (our school mascot is a yellow jacket) After a year of my students making fun of me and telling me that it was not working, our athletic director made a suggestion to go with Full Metal Jackets. I loved it, it didn't sound so whimpy to the kids, so we changed! Andy Baker still loves to tease me about the "Bee Bots"!! I will never live that one down.

As far as how we name our robot, we allow the team captain from the previous year to name the robot. (the captain this year will name next year's robot) We have had co-captains the past two years, so one named the robot last year and the other did this year. They get suggestions from the rest of the team, but they go with the name they like the most. It's been fun.

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Team name RoBBE Xtreme comes from Robotics Of Bound Brook, Ethicon and the team motto thing is we take robotics to the Xtreme soo you put the 2 together you get RoBBE Xtreme. in 1997 it was Crusin' Crusaders our school mascot is a Crusader, 1998 it was RoBBE's Roadrunners no clue how that came about lol, but from 1999 on its been RoBBE Xtreme.

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Club Sandwich... our school is called Sandwich Secondary School. Yep! Get it? Club Sandwich, it's like the thing you order at a restaurant... but we're a CLUB of people.............................wow

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Our team name is Double X because we are an all girls team (two X chromosomes in girls...). :cool:

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2003 DOT-Distance Over Time because we were a rookie year. It was an inspirational name
2004 Captain Caribeener- Our robot used a caribeener to hook onto the bar and well, pirates of teh Caribean was out that same time.
2005 Gnat- we had a holonomic drive train and we were really fast and we could have annoyed other robots like gnats do for people.
And our team name is the CircuitRunners. It was the only other suggested name besides Halo. I think we picked the better name.

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It's taken three years for this to catch on but I think 74 has finally landed on RoboDutch.

Robo (Robotic)
(Holland) Dutch

With there being four other robotics teams in the Holland Area, and our school teams are all the Holland Dutch, it's kinda hard to come up with something definitive. :rolleyes:

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Mechatronic (Mechanical)
Maniacs (Craziness)

The Mechatronic Maniacs
It can be a tounge twister though

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Cutting Edge Robotics
We got it from the song "Living on the edge" so we changed it to living on the cutting edge of technology. And got our name from that

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Hi! I'm from team 1257-Parallel Universe. I know we got our team name from a physics book. I think we chose it because we're all kinda off kilter on our team. I'm not quite sure how we got our new logo, the robo snail, though.

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well, our team name is spartonics,
our school mascot is a spartan, we wanted to make it sound more robotic like, and eventually settled on spartonics.

our robot name, Spartek, was actually suggested as the team name, but we all voted that it sounded better for the robot.

Our logo is a robotic spartan... I think it works well with the name :rolleyes: :D

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We are the Royal Knights, our school mascot is a knight.

we had SO many choices for names...including [and i'm SO glad it lost] "second robotics".

...apparently there's some kind of spin from "FIRST robotics" offa that. i just don't get it.

but our robot is SIR LANCE-A-BOT.....like lancelot....we can't reallythink of anything knight-related for a robot name so we might just have to have lance jr, lance 2, 3, 4 or something like that.

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Our team name "The Dirty Birds" is derived from the early days of our team (early-mid 90's). When we were first formed, the team consisted primarily of members of the football team. At that time, the football team had a bad reputation of playing very dirty, and since our school mascot is the blackbird, the football team earned the name "The Dirty Birds". This carried over to the robotics team and stuck. Despite the negative origin of the name, we are proud to be the Dirty Birds, and there are no longer negative connotations connected to the name. By the way, there was only one football player on our team this year (thats usually around max that choose to join).

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1024 = 0x400 = 2^10 = 1 Kilobyte

and then that kind of morphed to 1 Kil-A-Byte :D

-Q

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Raider Robotix came from our school's team the "Raiders". I still dont know what a raider is but the mascot for the school is a tough looking eagle in a tight blue sweater. I thought "raiders" were bad birds that killed baby birds in the nest. So I guess we are stuck with a name for a sinister, nest robbing, coward raptor.

The line of Evil Machines was the incidental brainchild of Mark Leone. Since 2000 we always listen to the other teams for the best name for that season's robot. In 2003, when we had the original Evil Machine, we were in a furious scrambling, pushing match for the platform in the Stack Attack game. In that round our partner accidentally got in the way and we nearly tipped them over. Mark's announcing voice chimed out "thats one evil machine- they dont like anybody!!!".
From then on the name stuck and we have had 4 Evil Machines- 2 of which made it to National finalist.


So I guess team 25 is named for killer birds and sinister mechanics. I guess that beats "the fluffy bunnies"

WC :cool:

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604 was known as the Sillowhats for three years, from 2001 to 2003. In 2005 the current group of students got together and we decided to have a new name. After brainstorming a bit and not really agreeing on one name, a team member suggested Quicksilver, since San Jose has a long history of mercury mining (our school is only about 5 minutes from the Almaden Quicksilver mines). It was a great suggestion, and we all agreed.
Yet we wanted the name to be a little different, so we changed the spelling from "Quicksilver" to "Quixilver", which does look cooler when it's spelled out on out shirts and our robot. I think their is no better choice since not only does it sound good when you spell it out or say it, it also says a little about our team's history.
Go Quixilver! :D

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Oh Wow... I'd think there would be all sorts of "knight" puns possible for robot names with that team name!

Just off the top of the noggin':
- Daze'n (Daze'n Knight)
- Silent Knight (it doesn't speak, you see...)
- Over Knight (it's the top bot...)
- The Knight Bus (for all you Harry Potter fans - it dashes, and stops suddently)

A sample of various punnish "Knights of the FIRST table":
Cir Cuit: An electrical Knight
Cir Culation: A library or spinning Knight
Ser Pent: Snake Knight (for a snake-like robot design)
or spelling it the other way:
Circus: A swearing Knight
...etc...

I'm sure you can come up with something, with a bit of warped thought!
... and if not, warped thinking is what your team's Engineers are for! :)

(And remember - One Grocer equals 144 Knights...)

Good luck!

- Keith

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Well, our team name is the Red Devils, because that is our school's sports name and mascot, and our theme is fire and brimstone and otherwise the depths of... you know. Our robot's name is Diablo normally, and we, the Red Devils, are his minions. But we also have been known to call him Belzebot, depending on how cultish we're feeling. LOL But anyway, at the end of each season, that year's robot also gets dubbed another, more personalized name, such as Hang-Bot, Mini-Bot, and X-Bot.

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From what I understand (not having been around when Team 296 was founded), the "Northern" in our name comes from the fact that our primary sponsor in 1999 was Northern Telecom (today known as Nortel Networks) and of course the fact that we're Canadian.

As far as I know, the only reason "Knights" was picked was that "Northern Knights" sounds kind of like "northern lights".

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cute ideas! i'm putting this on the team forum....

and about the engineers...uhm....we're rookies. i'm sad to admit...we don't have any. seriously. none.

so...warped thinking left to us, i guess.

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Oh boy, team names. Our team's currently in its fourth generation when it comes to team names, and we'll yell at anyone who tries to change it again.

Back in 2001 we started out as Mr. Roboto. Someone listened to too much music, I honestly don't know how that name came about.

In 2002 and 2003 we were the Radio-active Pajama Monkeys (named after our official furry mascot). In 2003 we usually just referred to ourselves as RPM as most people didn't like the name anymore.

In 2004 we became the Armor Plated Serpentines because our school mascot is a Cobra (we're the Cactus Cobras), and came up with a nice metallic snake for our logo.

In 2005 and 2006 we kept the same logo from before but changed to the Cobra Commanders as it sounded slightly cooler, and it was a nice joke to GI Joe.

So now we have three mascots, a cobra, a cactus, and a monkey. Most of our robots have either been RoboCobra Version X, or RAGE for our monkey.

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Team Name - Robonauts
How we got it - Most of our engineers work for NASA and build robots. They worked on one project called Robonaut, and that is how we got our name.

-Pavan Dave.

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We've been through three names so far as I know. Rookie year (2002) we were "Einstein's Minions", which sounds really cool, and I don't know why (or when) it was switched to "RoboSpartans", (Spartans is the school mascot) and now to the even more mundane "Spartan Robotics". We may revert back to Einstein's Minions, but they'll probably do something having to do with our pants (for those who saw us in Galileo this year)...the current favorite is "Fance Pants Revolution", which may be just cheesy enough to be cool.

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Team 1519's name came from our FLL team Mindstorms M a y h e m who won the Director's Award at the 2004 FLL World Festival in only their second year! As a result, the LEGO Corporation gave us a challenge grant to start an FRC team! So, Mechanical M a y h e m was started in 2005 with graduates from the FLL team. We competed at the BAE Granite State Regional and came home with the Rookie Inspiration Award.

We also started a 501(c)(3) organization called M a y h e m Inc. M a y h e m stands for Milford Area Youth Homeschoolers Enriching Minds because we are a mainly homeschooled team.

Another team began in 2004 called More M a y h e m whose members are mainly siblings of the members of the original team.

Our rookie year's robot was called "Elvis, King of Rack and Rail"
We recently reused it's drivebase for our "three day bot" that we made for M a y h e m in Merrimack. It was called "Elvis Reloaded".
Our 2006 robot was called "Sgt. York" after the WW1 hero.

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People actually often ask where our name comes from. Our team comes from Housatonic Valley Regional HS (pronounced "Hoo sa tonic") nicknamed Housy (hoo see). We transformed that into Who'sC and thus we are the Who'sCTEKS.

After deciding on that name the question mark symbol seemed rather fitting. Our chemistry teacher can manipulate tye-dye so that it doesn't run too much and creates all of the team shirts.

This symbol has proved to be very marketable. And, it's fun to draw so I like it. Our other mascot is a frog because of the cartoon of a frog refusing to be swallowed by a stork. Hence our motto "Don't ever give up."

The robots...1st robot was Reggie 1 for Region One, our school district. Then Reggie 2 and 3 because no one changed it. But having three reggies was getting confusing so we continued the "who" theme with Housywhat'sit and Housywhere'sit.
And last year's Jeremiah after Jeremiah the bullfrog.

Next year's name is undecided but so far I vote for the Who'sizzit. (Who's is it)

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166's robots in past years have been named Tommy Hawk, a play on words of the school's mascot: the Tomahawk.

There have been different names in between the Tommy Hawks. Tommy Hawk V was the last Tommy Hawk back in 2004. Last year our robot was named Otis relating to Otis elevators, and this year it was named Scorpio because the shooter resembles a scorpion tail.

I have no idea about the team name, though.

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Team we got our name from where we live..........VEGAS!!!

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Sometimes names just pop up in the most unusual ways. 1902 was originally going to be named Organized Chaos but one of the design days one of our programmers asked roughly when the robot was going to be in a condition to program and some one said when pigs fly. We were all a bit slap happy at this time because we had been at my house for a pretty long time and a couple of the students started speculating on ways to make pigs fly without wings. One of the obvious solutions was to strap it to a rocket. One of the girls looked up with a horrified look on her face and said "but some rockets explode." At witch we all laughed and someone put it into the very fun term of "Exploding Bacon" and we ran with it. :D

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Well, we're from The Harker School, and our team name is simply Harker Robotics...

The robots' names tend to be deliberately misspelled physics-y terms.
2003-"Tork," 2004-"Phorce," 2006-"Vektor"
2005, "Spark," was the exception. A lot of people wanted to call it "Sparq" or "Spork" but majority ruled for "Spark."

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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-

Re: Team Names – How?
 

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.

Re: Team Names – How?
 

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". :)

Re: Team Names – How?
 

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