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Are there any team names out there with an interesting story to explain them?

for team 138, we chose Entropy as it described our 6 week build period quite accurately...

that is to say that the team gradually came to a state of complete and utter chaos in trying to complete the robot on time!

interested in hearing from others-

-RoteAugen

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I alway liked the chaos teams (chaos, perpetual chaos, neverending chaos, there are probably more, ..chaos to the infinity plus one and so on - j/k...) I'd like to hear how those team names came about.

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Our team is named the Techno Ticks because we are from Lyme and Old Lyme CT, where the first cases of Lyme Disease were documented.

Our Slogan is It's in Your Blood!!!

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Didn't the name come from someone random like a puppeteer or something?

I remember meeting a woman at the CT Mfg fair or something back when I was on 237 who was a puppeteer that said she was the one who came up with the technoticks name....

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Hmm... Rice? It's an acronym of sorts. Our advisor came up with it. Respect, Impulse-control, Cooperation and Equity.

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Our team name (the Monsters) came from a play on the Loch Ness Monster story (or Champ, the Lake Champlain Monster). Our team consists of the schools from Walled Lake, Michigan, and since we had more than one school, it was difficult to use the school mascots. Therefore, we cooked up a story about the "Walled Lake Monster", and our team became the Walled Lake Monsters.

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Uh.....thats really odd. I dont think the team knows any puppeteer's or credits our name to one atleast.


Melissa

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S.C.R.E.A.M. That's all I have to say! :D

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What's it stand for? is there a story behind it?

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Ticks, Lyme Disease, and we were in the pits next to you at UTC! :ahh:

Just kidding! ;)

In case anyone is wondering about Sie-h2o-Bots.

Sie, short for the Siemen Company. World wide manufacturer of telecomunications equipment based in our hometown and our largest corporate supporter.

h2o, chemical reference of water. Our team is based in Watertown, CT 06795.

Bots, short for robot, basically self explainatory (we are a robot team).

Our nick-name is T.R.I.B.E.---Taking Robotics Into Bold Experiences. This is the third nick-name for our team. Some of you veterans may remember us as the Black Magic team and Sunseekers (our rookie '99 and sophmore '00 years).

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Stoney Creek and Rochester Engineering and Mechanics

Hello, Mr. Bence.

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SPAM #180

South Fork HS
Pratt&Whitney
And
Martin County HS

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Lol, of all the questions to ask. Our name has probably the most interesting of all stories behind it. Epsilon Delta, Ed, or E D. Well the year we came up with it we had an arm that wouldnt stand up. If you cant put that together with words that start with the letters e and d, dont bother. And we decided we liked the name, so we changed the letters to stand for Epsilon Delta and adopted the greek symbols for them for our logo.

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Megaforce Squadron?

I have no idea. :D

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When we were holding meetings for our team name back in 2001, we ended up with SWAT Mobotics...


I still don't know why we went with SWAT... (no offense to the current SWAT team... number 771 or something or other..... I can never remember the numbers. You gals developed your team name into something great... we just had... SWAT... with no purpose or acronym or anything)

The "Mobotics" end of it was a reference to our school name (Mowat). Lots of events and teams there are a pun from "Mowat" (i.e. Mowapalooza). At first I was adverse to naming it Mobotics, but it's grown on me, and now I wouldn't have it any other way.

Last year in 2002, we just dropped the SWAT and we're now just 783 Mobotics.



(We almost named the team CTRL+ALT+DEL..... My idea by the way... fell short to SWAT and Mobotics though :( )


But I still have to give kudos to my favourite name yet, "Division By Zero", it pwnz

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who else has the coolest name ever but


521 the L337 CR3W!!

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Team 25 Raider Robotix, North Brunswick Township Highschool is home of the Raiders, and We chose Robotix instead of Robotics because it looks cooler on paper :p to my knowledge we are the only robotix team

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Well we started with WicKED (Whiz Kids Engineering Design) but decided that wouldn't appeal so well to parents and sponsors. So then we came up with NERDS (New Energy Radical Design Systems) but the kids didn't want to wear nerd shirts at school (I haven't yet figured out why) so we finally settled with ACE (Albion Competitive Engineering).

Now we just need a number to go with it.

Allison

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The year the team started the students voted on "Augustus Roboticus Maximus" for the name of the robot. This was dutifuly stenciled on the side of the robot. During the first comp the robot was WAY over weight. After a drastic weight reduction just about the only letering left that was contiguous was "GUS". GUS remains our name today.
228 Team GUS

ps: Augusts Roboticus Maximus was REAL dificult to fit into a chant!!!!!!!!! :D
pps: Team 1071 MAX was a spin off from us and they chose the name to show there allegiance to GUS (from Maximus). :)

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The Indiana Prank Monkeys:

In an episode of the Simpsons, Homer becomes Mr. Burns' prank monkey, and must perform pranks on residents of Springfield for Mr. Burns' enjoyment. Why this is our team name? Um... because Simpsons is an awesome show. And... yeah. The kids voted on it, it's their team. Our mascot (the ugly monkey seen at http://www.team1020.org/ ) was made for us by our website sponsor, Spinweb.

...but I think my personal favorite may always be the Nerds of the North. It cracks me up every time. :)

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Wow. I have never laughed so hard in my life. That's awesome.

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Our robot is named after our teacher-advisor (Mr. Jeyanathan) and our mentor (Mr. Walker). The robot name? J-WALKER

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Thats nice at least we aren't the only team with an advisor named robot.:) Anyway our team name is L.E.R.N. League of Extraordinary Robot Nerds. Yeah it was my brother's idea. Unfortunately spelling is not one of his expertises.
I have to say though whenever I see John V Neun's name I always think of the Nutrons.

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GO TOM !!!! HAHA !!! you made me feel better about my self for jsut that split second

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here is the story behind The Gizmos ... we were originally The Mafia and our bots name was The Botfather .. well when I went to my school to ask for a loan for the registration fee, my vice principal said that we could not call ourselves The Mafia and then she decided on The Gizmos in about 2 minutes. I was not going to argue because she was making the decision to give us almost $7000 CDN.

its changing next year though ....

but during the finals at the canadian regional, i thought of THE best name that we should have used this year .. but we cannot next year ... we should have called ourselves THE ROOKIES! ... so if you are going to be on a rookie team next year and need a name .. feel free to use it ...!!

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Can you guess how we came up with our name?

UBERGEEKS!!!

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Niiiiice :)

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This year are robot is named OSCAR in tribute to the favorite sesame street puppet and because we use a trash can lid to manipulate the 2x ball. The acronym come out to (Our Super Cool Awesome Robot), that was after thinking about naming it (Our's Stair Climbs And Rattles) because of some of the difficulting we were having when we were first stair climbing.

Name Panther Robotics come from our school.

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team 1024-the kil-a-bytes

1024 bytes in a kilabyte.
w00t go us.
(what we get for having an A+ cert. teacher as a co-leader :P)

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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

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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.

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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.

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Guess we should explain our team name. i didn't get vote on it, but i hear it went like this:
Our school is South Side, and we are the Sout Side Archers
our main sponcer was GE
sofar we have ArcherGE
that didn't sound cool so me made GE into GEeks
so there we have it, the ArcherGEeks

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I can give you two interesting team names!

First, my high school team, 201, was called the FEDS:

Falcon Engineering and Design Solutions

We were originally given the name by our first sponsor, EDS. They took their name, and added an "F" for our school mascot, the Falcons, and got FEDS. Everyone liked the name so much, that when we changed sponsors, we came up with an acronym to keep using FEDS.

Second, my current college team, 830, is the Rat Pack. Our school is the Huron High School River Rats... so we just made the team name off of that. Nothing too amazing, but kinda interesting.

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The Dukes
We're an all boys school in Phoenix, AZ.
The Dukes conveys strength and toughness, masculinity, and royalty. "Dukes" have played some very significant roles in history and in popular culture.
I didn't like the name when the team first chose it, but it has really grown on me.

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We're Team007. Pronounced "Double Oh Seven" =D

Our team number is seriously 7, and back in 2003 we decided to have some fun with our number. =P So we made it into Team007. We name our robots after objects, movies, or people from James Bond.

Hehe we rule man. ;)

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SIE - H20 BOTS

SIE = Siemon Company. Watertown, Connecticut

H20 = Water for Watertown

BOTS = Robots

Its like a really cool math equation.

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Wildstang

comes from the combination of our two high schools mascots

the wheeling wildcats and the rolling meadows mustangs

thus wildstang

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good lord- how the heck did this thread live? I mean, come on- all the threads i start die!

jeez- a year ago i thought it died after may, but i guess i was wrong :ahh:

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Team 759 aka Systemetric

Because over here in the UK we use the Metric System. Switch the words round (System Metric) and merge the M's to get our team name.


At least that's what I've been told it means.

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Team 555 - cuz we have no name!

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im not to sure about the team name but the robot name came ( Chaos ) from our 2003 robot because of the toqrue and the speed the day we finally had every thing runing the engineer said that this robot is going to cause CHAOS out ou the field and every since then their has been an CHAOS DR. CHAOS CHAOS jr and this year Bule CHAOS :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :cool:

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You would think there would be a story about the martian but there isn't. That is our school mascot. Our robot's name is cool though. My favorite robot is a play off words with the show My favorite martian.

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I always thought it would be cool to name a team after the police code for their team number. I did some searching and looked up the police codes from some teams I know. Heres some of the funny ones

45 - kidnapping
56 - criminal damage
60 - Aggravated burglary
65 - robbery
66 - Extortion threats
68 - Unauthorized use of movable(goal??)
69 - Possession of stolen goods
71 - Issuing worthless checks
211 Armed Robbery
245 Assault with a Deadly Weapon
311 Loud and Obscene
11-14 Animal bite
11-26 Abandoned bicycle

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OH MY GOSH! It is now mandatory that 1126 renames themselves "Abandoned Bicycle". Thats awesome!
:D :D :D

217 is "Assault with intent to murder"" :ahh: :ahh:

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If this was BAttlebots 245 would have the perfect name.

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Issuing worthless checks eh?

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I found some more. These are all I can remember off the top of my head that were in the list.

64-Armed robbery
100-Hit and run
330-Gambling

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I think you went too far. We will NOT be at the racetrack next to the Forum in LA between matches, we will be watching you to beat you.
The original list was "funny ones". This is not funny.

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I want to hear about the Devil Duckies (1266), because I think our name (The Holy Hamsters) was inspired from being across from them in the pits at Atlanta last year. Our former names were no good. Although after reading all the posts here I think Double Doce would fit well.

I can't imagine Brophy not being the Dukes. I love hearing "DUUUUUUKES!" whenever they hit the field.

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the holy hamsters got their name from the devil duckies from last year? lol how funny...

well i dont know the whole story, but from what i hear....:

our DaTA advisors werepassing around this site and lil devil duckie that they had found out about and they were sharing it with most of the admin. it was such a cute lil demonic thing! WHen it came time for picking the team name last year, we didnt want to be known as the Warhawks, (which is our school mascott) we wanted something more creative than that. so one of our team members piced up the lil devil duckie and said "well how about this?" and it's just stuck, lol

as for the adopt a devil duckie, that came around when a member of our team ate a fortune cookie with the fortune: "you will have great success with adoption"

i hope that helps ne one wanting to know, but if i find out im wrong about something, i'll edit this!!!
:D

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I dunno about this... Wo-Bot?

The Wo stands for West Ottawa, our highschool but the newspapers like to call us the "wascilly wobot" and that kinda stuck after we won the WMR last year...

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robbery thats it huh? man i thought 65 would be cooler then that. like um um um i don't know lol. but i like the pink team 233 and i also like 269 coony quest.

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I'm not sure how our teacher thought up the name but I think our team's immediate acceptance of it was because it was the first name our team has come up with that sounded like a good FIRST name, and I credit the Devil Duckies for making the (odd adjective cute animal) formula successful. That, and it meant our team could wear ears. ;p

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I am suprised no one has mentioned my team - the Who'sCTEKS.

People always ask me.. "How the heck do you pronounce your name?"

"Who'sCTEKS" is pronounced "HOO-SEE-TECHS". There have been variations in the spelling of the name over the years, such as "Who'sCTeks" and "Housytechs", but the phonetics of the name have remained the same. Our name is a play on words... or rather a combination of the words "Housatonic", the abbreviation for Connecticut - "CT", and "Technology". The name was modeled after that of our mentor team, the Aztechs, from Assabet High School. The nickname for our high school, Housatonic Valley Regional High School, is "Housy", so in an attempt to emulate the Aztechs (who had combined the words "Assabet" and "technology"), we made our name a combination of "Housy" and "technology". Later, the addition of the "CT" element of the name was added as an extra dimension of wordplay. From the alternate spelling "Who'sC", instead of "Housy", evolved our logo, the question mark - since the word "who" implies a question = question mark.

-- Jaine

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Team 395 - 2 Train Robotics

So named because the high school students on the team take the #2 subway from their high schools in the Bronx to the mechanical engineering lab at Columbia University. Along the way they transfer to the #1 train, hence our motto, "Next stop #1!"

Our robot last year was named The Spicy because of a team tradition involving the team going to the local Chinese restaurant and daring each other to eat hot peppers. This year instead of The Spicy II, we named the robot 2 Spicy (keeping the same 2 from 2 Train Robotics).

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:D yeah but we still love you 555 and your big golden flag pole ball. Honestly and take no offence to this, but seeing as your 555, kinda close to 666, and between 444 I would call yourselves purgatory (or however it's spelled). You can be neutral about everything