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C.H.A.O.S. 131 originally came when the team was sponsored by OSRAM Sylvania and stood for Central High and OSRAM Sylvania...since we moved onto a different sponsor 2 years ago its been modified to Central High and Our Supporters.

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Our team nickname is Site 3 Engineering, or S3E.

When the team started and people were trying to come up with names, our arm operator threw out the name Side 3, which is a reference to the Gundam anime. This is how www.gundamofficial.com defines Side 3 in its glossary:

"A cluster of space colonies, also called "Munzo," which is located at the stable region in Earth orbit known as Lagrange point 2. In U.C. 0058 Side 3 becomes the independent Republic of Zeon, and subsequently the Principality of Zeon, though the Republic is re-established at the end of the One Year War."

We changed "Side" to "Site" and tacked on "Engineering" to make it more robotics related.

I really like our name. Some people think it's kinda strange, but nobody has been able to come up with a better one that the whole team agrees with, so it's S3E for good.

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it stands for Stoney Creek and Rochester Engineers And Mechanics!

Stoney Creek was a brand new high school built two years ago and thankfully we were able to get a team started with the help of Ford sponsoring us. However, we only had 8 people join from the 900 some students that went to Stoney Creek, so we invited students from our crosstown rival, Rochester High to join our team and bring our number to 16 strong! :)
That's how S.C.R.E.A.M. was born!!!

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I think it's interesting that two towns (Amherst and Manchester) next to each other selected the chaos theory to name their teams after!

greetings from about 5 miles away lol

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Heres one team # and name that no one has seen or herd from since 2000. The combination that formed the one team # / name had split up to 2 seperate teams this way it would be a bit more competitive.

Rookie Year 2000
Team 371
C.M.O.S. = Curtis - Mckee - Omega - Supremes

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The origins of "The PINK Team"

Everybody asks us this question, "Why is your team pink?" Well this is why (according to some information I have gathered from team mentors and alumni from Team #233).

When our team first started, there was going to be a meeting held to see what our team image was going to be; basically all spirit ideas would be discussed. The day the meeting was held, only three girls showed up. Knowing Mrs. Passmore (our team's head coordinator, also known as Mrs. P) said that since they were the only ones to show up, everybody else on the team did not care what would be decided as our team image. So the girls instinctively thought it would be funny to have a pink team. And so it was decided that the team would be entirely pink, even down to the robot. After the meeting, the girls graciously told the rest of the boys on the team that it was decided that the team image would be pink, and nothing but pink. :eek: Enraged, they told Mrs. P that this was "not cool" (I needed to censor what they actually said). But she told them that if they wanted there voice to be heard for a vote on the team image, they should have been to the meeting.

And so the boys were forced to wear the pink shirts to competition, or they would get kicked off the team... no one left the team. After our rookie year, we got a few remarks from other teams. But eventually our reputation grew and we made this prank work to our advantage (as a team). :D

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GO R.A.G.E

Robotics And Gadget Engineering, whatever a gadget is?

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I heard of a team last year (in Chicago) called the FookNauts. Yeah, that's pretty funny, and they recieved our "Best Name" award last year. :ahh:

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I voted that 639 be named 'The Rude Awakening' after the top secret club I started in 4th grade, but they said it sounded too dark...pity.

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Ohmer

Why?

I love physic puns.

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CHAOS- Central High and Osram Sylvania
I think thats how 131 got their name...please correct me if im wrong

*edit*previously mentioned sry*edit*
-Pat

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Rookie team 1464 at Chesapeake were the "Rookie Drivers". Bright yellow shirts with the black and yellow rookie driver symbol just like they use here to put on cars. You couldn't miss them.

Team 007 was kismet. The team decided that with an assigned number like that, why not use it? They've had a lot of fun with the theme the past couple of years. This year, the robot was named "odd job.":)

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old name - tigerbolt Rit's mascott is the tiger and the highschool is edision tech (edision- the light bulb that were the "bolt" came from) also edision tech hs are called the inventors (their basketball team)



new name - visioneers sponsored by bausch and lomb leading company of optics products in the US.....



just clairification the team name is offically the visioneers but our robot;s name is some form or tigerbolt

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Buzz: Buzz Lightyear and Toy Story were all the rage in 1996 (also Buzz Aldrin for a more practical reason) :)

NU-TRONS: Sponsors are Northeastern University (NU) and TEXTRON (TRON)... so it almost makes too much sense!

If I were ever to start my own team, I'd like to name them "From the Primordial Soup" :D

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Spectacular!

I will never look at your bots the same way again :p