rhode warrior
 

we live in Rhode Island. hence the RHODE part and warrior is just cool so our robot is the RHODE WARRIOR (and we just add a # after it eachyear).

Furious George!
 

Lol, my younger brother said the exact same thing when I said that. Since we are HUGE Simpsons fans, I think that knew it subconsciously, but it still seemed apropos because we have an English teacher as a mentor (strange, huh?).

TOBOR!!
 

Yea, I believe the second year (TOBOR I) one of our students was just messing around and said "Hey! We sould call it TOBOR! That's 'ROBOT' spelled backwards!" (Duh!) Every year after that we've kept the name and added a roman numeral... The first year our team was formed, we were at a different Appleton HS and the robot's name from that year is unkown. So yea! :)

That's my story 'n I'm sticking to it!

Lets see.....how did we come up with our name again? Our full name if Nortel Networks "The RAID". I know we were kicking names around and came up with that. RAID does stand for something... I'm going to go out on a limb and say RAID stands for Robotic Artificial Intelligent Development....

Yea, that should be right. And our robot name.... is "Gus". Though this year, it may be "Gus the 2nd". Not sure though.

For those of you using Bosch...(our team did last year)....we decided to call it "Gus" because we need all the gussets to put the bot together. And we also said if the robot was female, it would have been "Guset" :D

So far, I think no one else has copied ours...lol

Hey to everyone!
 

Hi, and thanks to all of those who have posted. But, since i've only gotten 33 replies (three of them my own), I know there are only about 30 of the teams that have responded of the hundreds out there. C'mon, get those fingers typing and explain why YOUR team name is unique!

Re: TOBOR!!
 

Hey Tobor Fans!

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Then check out Tobor the Great

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:D

We're the Gear Grinders, but this is due to a 'contest' of sorts we held last year to decide on a new name, which replaced the unfortunate wrestling reference of the 'NRO', or the New Robot Order. So, moving past that, we came across the Gear Grinders, with our robot Boomer (Always has been Boomer, just 'cause)...I'm still of the opinion that a 'Gear Grinder' might not be the best name to give to a perfectly (hopefully) working machine...Sounds a bit like 'Motor Burners' or 'Traction losers' or the like.

-Tom

Beach 'Bots
 

Originally we were a combined team with 5 different high schools represented. Many of the students on that original team were from Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach. Though other cities with romantic names like Hawthorne were also represented. When they were picking the team name Beach 'Bots was suggested but not chosen. I think they were the South Bay Sparks or something like that. Another name of ill-omen.

The next year, for various reasons irrelevant to this discussion, Hope Academy and Hawthorne High decided to have their own teams. Since Hope Academy does not compete in any intermural sports EXCEPT robotics, we didn't have a school mascot to fall back on.

I was at the meeting where we chose the name Beach 'Bots. Somebody remembered the name from the previous year and it seemed appropriate. After all the school is located in Hermosa Beach. It was also non-violent and would offend no ethnic groups.

We weren't particularly successful in competition that year, but everybody seemed to like the name so we kept it the second year. That year we did fairly well in competition, we were in the semifinals at our regional, and placed in the top 10 % nationally.

Since we were starting to get a name, the third year we kept it again and I don't think anyone has even considered changing it since. I certainly don't remember it being voted on after the second year.

Officially our robot is just one of the team and goes by Beach 'Bot X.0 but some years it has a team nickname as well. I can remeber a couple of discussions about whether that year's robot was a "he" or a "she".

I think this year's is definitely a "he".

Our team got it's name 4 years ago by taking a combination of the East Islip High School regular sports team name: the EI Redmen. Coupled with the type of product our very first sponsor, AIL Systems manufactured: Radar Jamming Equipment.

Put it together and you have : The RedJammers!!

We have kept the team name as it has become sort of a tradition.

The robot's name changes every year. There are 4 elementary schools in the district and in the beginning of December the team holds a 'name the robot' contest. They visit each of the elementary schools with the previous years robot, performing demonstrations and promoting FIRST and the team. Then ballot boxes are left in the schools and retrieved a week later. One finalist from each elementary school is chosen and each of those students receives a team T-shirt (itself a major fashion statement of style and grace!)

Last year's robot was named EInstein (a capital EI for East Islip) Geez! I wish the team had a dollar for all of the "robby the robot" entries received.

This years name hasn't been announced yet. Soon though soon, when the time is right........

Actually our team name has a pretty good story behind it. Two years ago our team was formed when a number of students were dropped from the official school team under still questionable reason. However, the students refused to give up on FIRST and with the help of one parent in particular they found a sponsor and college to promote their team. As a result the name "Las Guerrillas" came naturally. Up until this year the two teams enjoyed comepeting against one another, but as the number of students on the official school team dwindled those on 469 continued to grow and the school team met a demise over summer of 2001. The truly ironic part is that just within the last couple of weeks our team has become the new official school team. I used to be on the former official school team, and I swear there was more drama between the two teams than in a soap opera but things worked out in the long run. Oh by the way last years FIRST bot was named Cornelius after the mean ape in "Planet of the Apes" and we named our 2001 CDI bot Kurchec after the biggest gorilla in "Tarzan" I think it was.

Good old Sparky
 

Well we are team 384. We just decided to make it easy and use our team number as our name. Humm us lazy Virginia people :). Our robot name is the same as last year. SPARKY 3.0 ! We should have a site up with pics of our FIRST COMPLEATED prototype! I will post when we have it up.

Jason

ahh behold a shower of sparks....o wait thats our robot trying to move!

Well, back to the days when we were the only team from Colorado, our team name was Colorado Robotics, but last year 2 rookie teams, one form Denver and one from Colorado Spring participated in the same regional as we were, and the Denver team registered as Colorado Robotics, so we changed our team name to Alpine Robotics, which I think we will stick with for a while.

As for our bot, the name changes every year, but last year we have officially come to a general consensus to name our robot CAM the RAMBot, because we want to draw our potential sponsor, Colorado State university, into supporting us financially as well. CAM stands for Colorado Academy of Mines, which is the old name for CSU and the Rams is their mascot. So far, they haven't promise anything yet, but they do allow us to work in a lab located in the engineering building, which is quite nice... However, we were surprised how many teams were named RAMBot as well, so we might change it to CAMBot this year.

I'd love to tell you a funny story about how we got our team's name(SigmaC@ts)...But I dont know. I've spent the last couple years trying to find out , and to my knowledge noone remembers or is willing to admit why we named it that. Our school Mascot is the Panther, which explains the cat(but not the @ symbol...) and sigma is a greek letter. There have been a few attempts by the students to change it, but we've had it so long it would seem sacrilege to change it. Let this be a lesson to all rookie teams, WRITE THIS STUFF DOWN!

Team 191 - Xerox-Joseph C Wilson Magnet HS - X-CATS

In the same line with some other teams we're almost kinda obvious.

X= XEROX Logo
CATS = Wilson WildCats (mascot)

Also side note - Wilson Magent HS was named after Joseph C. Wilson founding CEO of XEROX.

Thus our 11 year partnership tradition is linked by this historic fact.

Ellery

The RoboDAWGS (Team 288) were named by Mr. Dolloff in the 1999 season as something to put on our registration papers. Grandville's teams are the Bulldogs. The phonetic spelling mimics a lot of Grandville banners, T-shirts, etc. spelled this way. This is primarily athletic stuff, although the theater group calls themselves the Drama DAWGS as well. Anyway, it seems to have stuck, although some students have questioned the logic of it

After some initial logo attempts, Bob Mills, a senior on the team, came up with our rookie year logo for the T-shirts and robot. Great design, but complicated and expensive to reproduce. Us folks from Michigan melted with black shirts in the heat of Florida.

The 2000 team had one primary focus for uniforms and logo- a brighter color. Sophmore Brian DeVries came up with the angular Bulldog head used on literature and the shoulders of our shirts. The main color scheme and shirt design was inspired by a box at one of our Saturday design sessions.

The identity and recognition of our team has skyrocketed with the bright colors, the performance of the robots, the animation team, and of course, some excellent team members.