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This year we choose the Pheonix. This has soley to do with the fact that we combined two teams into one. This new team brings together the best of both teams to create one tremendous driving force. The result was new friends, a great team, and an awesome robot. :cool:

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I am surprised that no one from MOE has posted yet.
MOE stands for Miracle of Engineering, it is a play off our main sponsors, DuPont's, slogan Miracles of Science.
Even though I love the sound of my own voice, and I love to type even more, I will spare posting MOE's team beginnings and just post a link instead to our website
This years robot name is MOEbius, a mobius strip is something that continues on forever. We thought that is represented our team well because our love for FIRST and inspiring people about science, technology and engineering is always reaching on. And also if you are ever in our pit it seems like the Number of students in there is ever reaching also :)

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We (Team 322) have been the FIRE team since we started in 1999.

F - Flint (as in Flint, MI, where our 3 high schools are located)
I - Inspires
R - Real
E - Engineers

I think its a pretty cool name for a FIRST team and easy to play on when it comes to naming the 'bot. Our robot is officially the Fire Hazard each year, though I believe it may have began life as the Firestorm a few years ago. We always end up with an unofficial nickname for it. We had "Rudy" in 2001. It had long spindly legs (to go over the bar in the evil teeter-totter game) and a 4-pronged ball handler. In it's home position, especially with the red light, it bore a strange resemblance to a certain red-nosed reindeer. Hence the name "Rudy". Then, there was "Tweetie" in 2003f or the "Stack Attack" game . It was a sinister little diamond plate machine with a Tweetie-bird "Fire It Up" emblem with flames on it. That was a sweet 'bot. We have jokingly called this years machine "The Passion of the Robot" because of the cross shape of the tetra handler. (In the words of Larry the Cable Guy: "Lord, I apologize...") Only time will tell the final nickname of the machine this year.

See you all at West Michigan and in Atlanta!!

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Are team name is the the SPORKS. You know like a spoon and a fork combined. Are President last year came up with that. We don't know why, but it works for our team. And we have a little saying to go along with our team name, "We're not a spoon or a fork, we're a multipurpose tool."

Personally, I like team S.P.A.M.'s name, because in certain places in Canada, spam is called spork.

Go Sporks and good luck to all other teams.

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The first robot my team built was in the 2002 season, the robots drive motors sounded like bees buzzing, so the name of the robot was bee bot, and somehow the name Robobees popped up and has since become the name of the team.

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Team 527 (Red Dragons) name is actually quite amusing in retrospect...

The name came about as an error. Our rookie yea we decided to just keep the same name as all of the school sport teams (red devils) but through a communication error over the phone our team would up being called the red dragons. By being lazy and not realizing the mistake we stuck with the name and still go by the red dragons to this day.

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Code Red Robotics came from many different places. First, the "red" is because of Cornell's sports teams are called the Big Red and our high school's are teams are the Lil'(little) Red, so we thought that we should follow the trend as well. The Code Red part came from, I believe, Patrick Dingle(our founder), when we was drinking A LOT Code Red Mountain Dew. The name just sorta caught on and everyone liked it, despite the minor copyright infringement :)

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How the heck did this thread get dug up?

Anywho... some of these names are awesome and the stories behind them make me laugh.

Division by Zero is one of my favorite names, only to be beaten by their new "nickname" Division by Chicken. :D

As far as the The ThunderChickens go, our story has been a long kept secret and is often the topic of our newletter scavenger hunts. So... I suppose I'd better not post it, for I'd risk having Paul put me in the chicken suit for all eternity. :yikes:

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Our team name is actually kind of interesting..T-Rx (aka T-rex)

Our team is made up of 3 different rival schools..when the team first originated, there was only one of the schools, Norwich High School (Their team symbol is the purple tornado). And the biggest sponsor that the team had was Proctor & Gamble Pharmeceuticals. So they combined the T from Tornado..with the Rx, meaning prescription, from the company..

After the other teams joined..there was talk about changing it..but I mean c'mon..

Who wants to be anything other than a T-Rex? ;)

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We're team 360 and with 360 degrees in a circle...

We're The Revolution :)

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We are the Pascack Pi-oneers. THe pi symbol + ioneers. THis is so because we are composed of two highschools, with one's mascot as an indian and the other's being a cowboy. Put them together you get a Pioneer. Add a little FIRST and you get Pi-oneers.



2005 Rookie All-Star NJ Regional

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Ours is Double Deuce because of our team number, 22. Get it? Two two's.

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Kaizen is the Japanese term for continous improvement. One of our head mentors works at a company which was going through this corporate process. It begins with the realization that nothing is perfect and there is always room for improvement no matter how small. It also happens over very short periods of time. He realized that this principal applied to first as well. When it came time to chose a new name becuase we became district wide instead of single school he suggested it. Over much deliberation it was chosen unanimously (something that very rarely happens). We added the "Blitz" just to make it sound cooler. Actually now that I think about it our team name means "Continous Improvement-quickly"

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Well, in past years we were the technohaulics, but then for obvious reasons, that changed to technotics.
I think that for next year I'm going to push team GANGPLANK: Generally Awesome and Noble Gracious Professionals Looking At New Knowledge. Our robot often has a hook for one reason or another, so I figured that a pirate theme would be awesome ;).

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We were really creative with our team name. Port Perry Robotics.........Port Perry is our town LOL..........A lot of people know us by our robot, Fast Eddie, which is named after one of our major sponsors, Fast Eddie Racewear.