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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.