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Out of curiosity, I would like to know how your team came about their Logo, inspiration for it, or any fun back stories on him, her, or it.

I know that the original RoboDawgs logo came from a student, was modified last year, then the Dawg [Hex] came when I drew him :D . Our high schools Mascot was and is a Dog, so the Robotics team became the RoboDawgs [for a long story short]

So what is your Logo's story?

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from what i've gathered... Team Paragon was named after a word of the day on dictionary.com. Paragon means perfection, often used in terms of diamonds, so the diamond became part of us. The lightbulb represents like a bright idea, so we mixed the two for our logo :)

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Team 1261 is based out of Peachtree Ridge High School, home of the Lions. Naturally we adapted the Robo-lions as a name, and the Lion as a mascot.

Our logo is derived from the school logo. It shows a lion with long, flowing hair. Seen here. Back in 2007, a particularly artistic member took the long flowing hair and turned it into circuitry that slowly fades away.

We've been using the fading away circuitry every since.

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We recreated the school mascot logo at some point early in our history (~15 years ago). Our version became the de-facto logo for the school after the administration saw our update.

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I've told this story a million times, but I love telling it, so I'll do it again.

1189 started off as Breaking Pointe (Grosse Pointe, and we "broke" the rivalry between Grosse Pointe North and South high schools), with the mascot of a rabid squirrel. After a few years, we* realized how much the logo undermined the support of our sponsors. We also couldn't find any tools or materials that were ready-made to fit with our quirky color scheme. Did I mention that that logo was also really expensive to print on t-shirts and the like?

Sometime in 2003-04, a freshman drew the gearhead image and posted it in the shop. The image kept showing up in more and more places, and it was adopted as the team image starting with the 2004 competition season. We were still Breaking Pointe at that time.

We didn't become The Gearheads until 2004-05.

And now...the image (yellow diamonds, yellow/black, and sprockets/gears galore) is everywhere. On our shirts, in our hair, on our fingernails, on our shoes. On the robot, in the pit (The only non-black-and-yellow items there are spare parts and tools), on the judges, on our backpacks and purses, and on almost every competitor and spectator in the venue. Yellow diamonds work for us.

*note: I wasn't on the team at this point, and it really should be "they chose," but I'm speaking for the team as a whole, past and present.

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We needed a logo, so (as I was told) four of our students (three guys and a girl) posed as a group and one of our students created the logo from the pictures that were taken. You can see part of the logo here in the header: http://team1675.com/

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Our logo is as old as our team. I personally don't know much about it's origins but a few years ago when Xerox changed it's logo we debated changing the pixilated X to a more standard X due to copyright issues but in the end we decided to stick with the pixilated X since it was so much a part of our identity.

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At MORT's high school, Mount Olive, the mascot is a marauder. Our logo is a marauder with a screwdriver in his mouth instead of a knife. I have been told that we have "stolen" the idea from a hockey team from a technical college but I've yet to see our logo out of a robotics context.

You can see the logo as my avatar.

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When 176 was first started, we were the Raiders of the Third Rail, and our mascot was a character similar to Indiana Jones running down railroad tracks. Obviously, the "third rail" is an electrical term, and the Raider was on of our school's mascots. So, once we had the name, the logo just came naturally.

After a few years, we switched to Aces High. Our main sponsor Hamilton Standard plays a large roll in building aircraft, so Aces High came along, inspired by the Flying Aces of WWI and WWII. However, we found it quite hard to really incorporate the plane theme into spirit and the robot, so the 4 Aces were brought in, and now our logo is a pair of Aces with a wrench behind it, and our mascots are the 4 Aces. Although, for a few years, our mascot and logo was a boy and girl wearing flight goggles and holding a deck of cards.

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Would be great if posters also included a link or image of the logo.

In the second year of 499's history the team morphed from a single campus team to a school district team which had two high schools and one arts magnet program. This predicated the exclusion of school based themes or we would have been the Minuteman Rockets of Art:D

Being that our district is predominately hispanic, I chose to techify an ancient Meso-American culture (Toltecs) which are revered as artists and craftsmen. They also were something of scientists and beliefed that annual migrations of the Monarch butterfly were related to the gods. They used the butterfly on their chest plate...
The team name became Toltech and students on the team were asked to create a logo. Digital arts students worked with a T shape and the origianl artwork had a stone texture. The following year a graphic and web mentor modified it to add star burst chevrons to the circle and removed the stone texture. Color choice was Purple, Yellow/gold, and black.

Original graphic should be in my avatar and the current graphic can be seen on Maria's shirt in this picture from LSR 2009.

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Alright, long story time...GO!

So 1124 actually started out as the Cheetahs due to our sponsor, Cheetah Learning. Our first crate had Cheetah spots on it. Kind of awesome. This was way way way before my time (1124's rookie year I was in....4th grade). I wasn't even living in Avon at the time. So I know very very little about our Cheetah years.

From that point, you can find a lot of really old random pieces of memorabilia that show our changing look. When our sponsor switched over to UTC Chubb, we were named the Chubb Bots. Our theme was tye-dye then, I believe. A time period I think our older mentors and seniors are trying to forget....

Finally, we switched to UTC Fire and Security, which owns Chubb. From what I can deduce we voted on our name (maybe some people at UTCFS took part in the voting as well, can someone clarify this?). The logo was then designed by a former member of our team in his freshmen year. He's a freshmen in college now. Ever since, we've been bringing out that good ol' ÜberStyle ÜberGrace all day every day (well...not really. Many of our members feel embarrassed by it. We're working on that.)

I'm curious as to when 180 came up with their logo. Probably way before us, but it'd be interesting to finally see who the original FIRST Supermen were xD

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In late December 2005 a bunch of students from Winter Park High School got together after class with the intention of fielding a FIRST team in 2006. (Well most of us had that intention, one of our students who had no engineering or science inclinations was there because she heard we brought a Chick-Fil-A nugget platter, she got hooked and was on the team through her graduation.)

One of the first subjects on the meeting agenda was to decide on a team name, because we didn't have very much time till kickoff we threw out a bunch of names to vote on including some found on a random name generator on the internet. Organized Chaos was the name we decided on followed by a few others including Exploding Bacon. After the vote we decided on a time and place to watch the kickoff and do some brainstorming and then everyone went home for the holidays.

Even though the team had chosen Organized Chaos, Exploding Bacon had been stuck in one of our mentors heads and she mentioned it to her mother over dinner one night. Her mother found the name very funny and a little while later started doodeling on her napkin at the table.

The pig on a rocket napkin drawing was brought to out next meeting, kickoff, and the whole team loved it so much we had an instant re-vote and Organized Chaos became Exploding Bacon.

Initially our colors were black and gold because we had students from multiple schools and we couldn't agree on a color scheme so we took the patten of the local college UCF. The next year we decide on orange and green because it stood out and we couldn't think of any other teams with that color scheme.
Now orange and green tend to permiate our lives, we color hair, paint nails, get orange bags, orange and green converse shoes, orange hats, etc. etc. etc.

(sorry for the long post, but it's a long story)

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Our school's mascot are Mustangs, so naturally our team is the Metal Mustangs. We have this really amazing Sophomore (Junior next year) on our team who redraws the Mustang each year. It can be seen on our website banner: mmr2410.com

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And - the first name still suits Exploding Bacon in oh so many ways. One thing about you guys - your know yourselves well. :)

Jane

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You can see 1732's logo is if you look a little up and to the left (the lettering has actually changed. The current logo does not have "MUHS FRC").

We were uncreative (but original for FIRST) and just used our high school's mascot, the Hilltopper. One of our seniors on the team drew the logo, taking the one of the sports team's logo and slightly changing it to make it look more mechanical. After the first year, we decided we wanted to slightly change it so it would be more applicable to different media (letter-head, t-shirts, website...) and to change the lettering around the logo. While changing it, someone suggested shortening the snout/nose to make it look more like a ram and less like a horse. This is when a junior and one of the most involved students on the team said that he always thought a Hilltopper was horse...

I believe our website's banner (http://www.team1732.com/) has the old, 'horse' logo.

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Our team name, the Warbots, is short for Warrior Robotics, named after our school mascot, the Deerfield Warriors. However, that is about it for similarities between our logo and our school.

We have a graphic design teacher at our school who loves the Warbots but is unable to mentor the team for the most part, so he makes the logo. Ours is relatively unique in that each year it slightly changes. Usually there is some form of flaming skull, mostly because it looks awesome, and the color scheme has stayed relatively consistent as well. However, each year the graphic design teacher makes a different logo, relating it in some way to that year's game or our robot. For instance, in 2008, our robot was named 'The Wabbit' because of its appearance and agile drive train. Thus, our logo that year was a Monty Python-esque rabbit on fire. Last year had a flaming skull with pieces of an orbit ball as a headband. This year, we had the same flaming skull with a soccer ball replacing the top of its head. I would attach a picture, but it's too large a file even as a jpg.

We are very grateful for this teacher's contribution to the team; each year our logo is awesome looking no matter how good or bad the team does.

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After the team spent nearly the entire build season batting around team names with the requirements myself and fellow mentor gave them, we finally went with one I mentioned in passing. Our requirements were to have something which we could build a theme around, including a chant, cheap costume for teammates that would standout, pit and banner layout, and finally a logo. We decided on Prometheus because it hit all those requirements fairly easily since we stuck to the greek and fire theme, except that we were still logoless. (And we found some awesomely cheap flaming welding hats that went with the theme and use them every year from now on. Another advantage is its easy to spot my students in a crowd with their head gear)

As we were putting the cover on our electronic box for last year's robot it became obvious there would be a great place for an image and so we gave the lexan to the other mentor's kid to airbrush a flaming orbit ball on. (This was Lunacy as our first year) He started with a flaming orbit ball and thought it was ugly and instead did a flaming red ball with a killer grin. We all liked it so much we decided to carry it forward as our logo from then on. This year one of our students even went so far as to make a paper mache head for a mascot which turned out great. We added it to our t-shirts this year as well, and decided that we'd have our mascot play whatever game we were playing.

Since we were a looper bot from the get-go and were playing soccer, that is how our Chester robot name came about, and how the t-shirt mascot/logo ended up with bouncing a ball off his chest. :-)

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In 2005, the season as the ChubbBots, there was a lack of coherent image/theme for the team overall, so people wanted to change that. We talked about things like the importance of branding and team decisions, ran a vote to come up with a new team name. UberBots was decided on. After that, we voted to decide on a theme that would be used throughout our existence. The theme that won was actually "Greek/Greek gods", but one member suggested the connection between "uber" and "super", and we revoted on a superman theme. It won, and soon thereafter we voted on a motto and started working on the logo we still have today. SPAM was definitely superman-themed before us, but we had little awareness outside of our own region at the time. Our first year as the UberBots was also our first year attending the Championships, and boy did we get confused everytime we spotted members of SPAM far away and then realized they belonged to another team as we approached.

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I wasn't on the team our rookie year, but two of my best friends were.


The school held a competition in the art classes to see who could come up with the coolest design and the team voted on it, but in the end the one that was picked was designed by a girl named Ariel who was a senior on the team.

This year, to fit the game, the logo was altered to include a soccer ball, but we've stayed pretty close to the original design.

On our website is a moving animation of the logo; www.roboteknix.com

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I wasnt on the team during our rookie year but one of my friends (who is goth/scene) thought of "technomancer" from the word "necromancer" and then im not sure where the teal and black colors came from (but i must say that they are awesome together :D ). I think he came up with the logo too...but im not entirely sure

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I asked one of my designer friends in California. He's a locally famous graffiti artist, but he is very good with photoshop and 3D effects.

I know, pretty unoriginal, but I really like the logo. :-) When I worked with him, I said something blocky, some sort of a face, and this what came about :-)



He gave it to me in a low resolution JPEG and vector file but I lost the vector file... I ended up redrawing and recoloring it last summer. The font used in there is Neutra Text from House Industries.

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We're the K Island Gears... Our logo is a gear with a superimposed lighthouse, as per http://1000islandsschools.org/clubs/...s/image002.jpg

It works.

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When Bedford Express was first starting, we wanted something that we could tie into a lot of different themes and such. Our high school mascot (a mule) didnt work out so well for sayings our grandmas would be proud of :D lol. So we started exploring other ideas. Some parents suggested a train theme because we could have lots of visible logos (the yellow dot, the railroad crossing, and our X) and we could tie it in a lot. We started with "Engineers on Track" and have since applied the "on track" thing to anything you could think of! haha. We wanted to get our community "on track" as well as our other area FLL teams on track with our team. The colors came from our school color (Red and sometimes black) and the color of a railroad crossing sign (yellow, and sometimes black) So we have the red, yellow, and black Bedford Express! :) *makes arm X thing* And our train logo was drawn by an art student, we had a competition for a best design, and we got the awesome train we use today! :)

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One year, way back when, the robot was named "Grace Hopper" and her profile looked very similar to a grass hopper :rolleyes: so a grasshopper logo was plastered over everything and it became a hit both on our team and on other teams who instantly recognized our robots and it stuck.

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As most of you know, the Buzz Robotics logo is the classic smiley face. Let me iterate how this came about.

I was not around when our logo became associated with the team, however through the help of original members I have been able to uncover the story behind the Buzz.

In our rookie year (1996) our robot had a suction cup to aid in its playing of the current year's game (Hexagon Havoc). I am not entirely sure whether or not it was a mentor or student who chose to draw a smiley face on the suction cup, nonetheless it was a member of the team.

I was told that at a competition a newspaper photographer took a picture of Buzz 1996, smiley suction cup and all.

The picture was later sent us, and recognized and embraced as "Oh, that's cool".

Since then the smiley face has stuck with the team. (Hence the suction cup).

Just shows how a little doodling on the robot can lead to the creation of such a recognizable logo.

Below is a link to our site to view all of our bots. Especially the original, 1996.

http://www.buzzrobotics.org/theBuzzBots.htm

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1997: Team 93 was originally created as Team 107 (never got how the numbers changed... ) AKA A.N.T.S. or Appleton North Technology Students. Aren't we clever... although I have still to see the logo.

1998: The team number changed to 93, with another change to the name and probably the logo that year as well. The name was changed to be the N.E.W. Apple Corps. With a clever change to the FIRST logo, namely, replacing the circle with an apple... We got the basis for our logo, at least, thats what I think happened...

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At Liverpool High School, every sport is the _____ Warriors. Fighting Warriors, Diving Warriors, Cheering Warriors and so on.

Robotics build season takes place during the harshest part of the Central New York winter, and Robotic Warriors just sounded way too generic. So apparently the team voted on Arctic Warriors and it was set. I did hear a rumor that there was a time when the team was going to change the name of the team a few years later, but it never was liked. Arctic Warriors is awesome.

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Team 195 is forced to use the school-wide logo :(

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C.O.R.E.'s Logo was made by a student who was just messing around with circles during one of his classes. He really liked it, and made photoshop renders of it. He brought it to the team and we liked so...poof! That's our Logo.

Our name, Community Of Robotic Engineers, is because we are made up of our three area high schools. We shortened it to C.O.R.E. because it sounds alot cooler.

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my team logo is in my signature, it came about because the original team all loved to ski, after the first season, they had a ton of extra money, so they rented a helicopter for a day and skied, i am told that this is the inspiration for the logo.

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Our high school mascot is a Titan, so Team Titanium came naturally. We have a great local sponsor, Billy Goat (http://www.billygoat.com/site/professional.aspx) who gives us build & storage space, access to their machine shop, welding, power coating, etc. Our students took the eyes from their logo & modified them.

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**CORRECTION**
After looking up the word Paragon in the dictionary, the team found out that it was often associated with lightbulbs and diamonds. a merge of the two resulted in our logo :)