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Our name is weird because the name "Killer Bees" actually has nothing to do with our school....whatsoever. When the team started back in 1996, they were with a different high school, Avondale, whose mascot was the yellowjacket. Their school colors were yellow and purple....look at out logo. Our school joined Avondale in 2000, and they added some stuff to the bee to make it look more Irish (we're the Notre Dame Prep Fighting Irish). They added a shamrock in his eye and a.....crack pipe looking thing that's apparently Irish. They also added some green to the logo. Well, Avondale left the team before the 2003 season, and now we're the Notre Dame Prep Killer Bees. Yellow and purple are still the main colors (look at our arm last year), and green is thrown in once in awhile.

Also, If you look, we "borrowed" our bee from Georgia Tech. Merchandise with "our" be on it was all over in Atlanta!

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Sill can't believe that Division By Zero wasn't mentioned. Man, math & physics puns rock! :D

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Our team name and Robot names are very interesting indeed. Bobcat Robotics comes from our um... school name. And our robot's name this year.... the bobcat 2004 :D

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TJ² come from our school mascot "Trojan" and our sponsor "Johnson & Johnson." The two were combined and I think that that's really it.

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Back in 2000 Miss Daisy actually came in 2nd for voting.. the next year our head honcho decided it was time to have a femine name, so everyone groaned and moaned through our first two competitions.. But then, people started to say things like "we love miss daisy," so we decided to renew the theme- its really been awesome, everytime we see something 'daisy' in the stores we grab it, and whenever girls see our robot theyre like "ooh, miss daisy"...

yeah, after 3 years of being miss daisy I sometimes find me calling myself a daisy, eh?

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ours is WATSON (West Albany Technological and Science Operating Nerds) our robot this year was SHERLOCK ... Obviosuly because of Sherlock and Watson... Last year our robot was named Muttnik because we are team 957 and sputtnik the russian sattalite went up in 1957 so we have a 1957 theme based around it.
Nate

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Team 1294
Our team name is Screws Loose.

We are a rookie team (well, I was on team 949 last year, but the rest of the team is new).

Some people on our team are kinda crazy, so we say we have "screws loose" in our heads.

We also figured we'd have some screws loose on the robot. (which we did)

Oh, and our logo (my avatar) is a scew with a strait-jacket on.
On the back of our shirts, we had a picture of a money holding a screwdriver and scratching his head. (he just set the screws free).

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Team 93 - the N.E.W. Apple Corps

N = North (Appleton North High School)
E = East (Appleton East High School)
W = West (Appleton West High School)
All three are high schools with students involved on our team.

The "Apple" comes from our hometown of Appleton.

"Corps" is a play on "core". The dictionary definition of corps is "a group of people with speacilized training organized to work together". Fits pretty well!

Sean

p.s. I'm please to see that SPAM stands for something and isn't just a favorite form of meat for the team in question!

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A certain commercial featuring Bob Dole comes to mind.. But maybe I am way off on that one. :yikes:

Actually Jay, it's Siemon as in The Siemon Company not to be confused with Siemens, another leader in Telecommunications.

Also, Team 237 has named it's robot for the past so many years P.A.L. It has two meanings, Professionally Automated Landrover is what it semi- stands for, but also our main advisor's last name is Pallokat and everyone just calls him Pal for short. I guess the robot name is a dedication to him since he was one of the main people who started the team.

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My team's name (Binary Bulldogs) comes from our school's mascot (bulldogs) and the fact that our team number 1110 also doubles as a binary number. Our robot's name (Agent Schmidt) is a play on words, for one Schmidt is the name of our very dedicated advisor and Agenst Schmidt sounds like Agent Smith from the Matrix.

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<LOL!>
Sean, we make sure each graduating senior gets a specially labeled can of Spam to take with them on their post high school travels! :D

Eric

P.S.
At nats, we heard rumors that there is a rookie SPAM team out there! ....gads! 2 SPAMs???? If you are perusing these forums...show yourselves! :eek:

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Our rookie year we were called the M.I.N.T.s it stood for something like Mounties In New Technology. I am not sure if that was the exact acronym, I wasn't on the team yet. Anyway, we basically blew (our robot base was made out of steel). So the next year we felt the need for a new name. We choose firebirds since the pheonix rose from the ashes. So we rose from the ashes of our first year to be the firebirds team we are today. Not to mention it is a catchy name. :]

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Our rookie year (1997), team 67 (at the time 47 i believe) was

H₂OT
Hyper Hex Offender Team

I believe our logo had both flames and dripping water. The fields were hexagon shaped back then, which is why we were the hex offender team. It may have been as early as our second year when it simply became:

HOT
Heroes Of Tomorrow

which is the name we've kept ever since. So I guess it is an interesting name, since it was always pronounced "hot" even though the acronim was changed. I believe our robot has always been reffered to as the "HOTBOT".

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Ahhhh!!!!!!:ahh:

I see no ones included My teaM Name which i think its the best one ever (HAHA nah i think Truck Town Thunder 68 is the best name ever)

BUT Were Team 702!!!!

THE
Bagel Bytes!!!!!:D


its the name that has less to do with robotics than anything else;)

and it doesnt stand for anything and i think its better that way:)

I dont blame anyone for not mentioning us as we havent been to nationals in several years so i dont expect u big CDers to have seen us before:yikes:


-Osc-

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Well, I have heard report from some FIRSTers that 68 will always be known as Truck Town Terror to them.