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Spam's 2k8 robot is "Running With Scissors"

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Team 932's robot name this year is the Circuit Charger, because our school's masocot is the charger, and we kind of are staying along the theme of a dodge charger.

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Team 343 Robot names
2000 - HCC-OP (Pronounced Hick-up for Hamilton Career Center/Oconee Business Partnership)
2001 - Silver Bullet
2002 - Manuel Overdrive (after mentor Charles Manuel who passed away)
2003 - Blitz
2004 - Doug Roberts (DR)(After student that passed away)
2005 - Trinity
2006 - Cyclone
2007 - Andre (After the custodian)
2008 - Wheelie Mammoth

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i believe it has something to do with metal gear kitten due to our programmers.

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We name our robots after iconic swells- 2012 was Pipeline, 2013 is Mavericks.

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This year we went with Disc Van Dyke. It has no connection to the robot but we had a Fr. Van Dyke at our school several years ago and we liked the pun. KokoEd suggested that we change our name to The Howitzer at FLR.

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OK, I'll help with the revival.

This year I proposed that our robot be named Hillary. I was hoping for some sort of quizzical response about why a robot should be named after a Secretary of State. I then had to explain about Sir Edmund Hillary as one of the most famous climbers and one of the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Ho hum - history - yeah, well, Sir Edmund ain't such a bad name. I should have gone really abstruse and mentioned Tenzing Norgay.

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Our robot is named Ragnarok! We named it for our climber, which looks a bit sinister. Ragnarok (in Norse mythology) is a series of future events, including a great battle which results in the death of a number of major figures , the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water (we are hoping for a water game!) It is also a world in Halo 4. See more at http://www.team708.org/current-robot.html .

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team 468's 2013 robot is named Jericho

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2481's 2013 robot is named Optimus Climb.

In addition to its efficient 30 point climbing prowess, it also transforms from shooter, to runner, to shooter, to runner, to climber...and back again to shooter for the start of the next match. We feel the name suits it well...although, we've had a bit of a hilarious internal debate on whether or not Optimus should be referred to with male or female pronouns...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtoXDBQhvXI

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It's big, red, and sort-of-rectangular, so we added a flag and called it the Fire Truck. (Complete with fireman hats and suspenders on all the team members.)

Fire Truck: http://robotics.mcdevitths.org/2013-hh

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"Tyrannosaucer Rex" is the name of 225's robot this year. Somebody thought the robot looked like a tyrannosaurus rex, and the name stuck. We had some down time near the end of the build season and at our first competition, so some of the students decorated the robot with markers, contact cement, and foam to match its name.

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My team names their robots every year.

2008 - Myrtle the Turtle
2009 - Hunk o' Junk
2010 - Reccostobor
2011 - FIRST Strike
2012 - Trickshot
2013 - Cyclone

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Are teams robots are usually named after some distinct feature, or structure on the bot

2007-The Fighting Calculator (no real reason rookie year)
2008-Heavy Lifter (self explanatory)
2009-Box-o-Rocks (it held LOTS of moon rocks)
2010-The Multiplier (large x structure on the back of the robot)
2011-The Scorpion (our arm looked like a large scorpion tail)
2012-Blue Thunder (the robot was very blue that year)
2013-Trap (the main structure of the robot was a trapezoid that everything was attached to, also trap shooting came to mind)

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From the FRC Manual:

4.1.13 ROBOT Name

R 4.1.13.1

Each registered FRC team must provide their ROBOT with a title, pseudonym, label, or nom de plume.

If this task proves challenging as a 30 point climb, it is suggested that each TEAM, upon the Bag and Tag deadline, go outside their build site and name their ROBOT after the first thing that they see in the natural world.
For example: Falling Rain, Foot of Snow, Half Moon, or Spraying Skunk, are considered acceptable.

Naming the ROBOT after your TEAM and the number of years that you have been in FIRST is considered to exhibit a level of creativity that is non-commensurate with the number of years that your team has been competing and will be penalized by the Master of Ceremony or Game Announcer by labeling your ROBOT with a fresh tag.

This is your creation and you owe it a personality.