Team 1619, Up-A-Creek Robotics, worked on creating our pin design for most of the day yesterday. We wanted to incorporate the recycling logo into our design, but weren't quite sure of the best way to do it until someone mentioned that it looked kind of like an "A". At that point most changes were either placement or refinement from the concept that emerged, with the biggest debate occurring over the font of "Recycle Rush".
We make all of our own pins with a laser engraver that we have access to, and this year the plan is to use mirror-backed acrylic and engrave (and cut) from the reverse side of the material. This leaves the front of the pin smooth and allows us to use a translucent blue acrylic to match the team colors for a cool effect (without people actually being able to see the pins that are glued to the back). We preferred this to clear acrylic without a backing (which made the engraving difficult to see at certain angles and prominently displayed the pin on the back) and our previous method of simply engraving and cutting out opaque colored acrylic on the same machine.
Here is a picture of all our different designs together:
http://i.imgur.com/wmbBCdg.jpg
Here is a picture of our final design:
http://i.imgur.com/YEbfS60.jpg
We haven't ordered our blue mirror-backed acrylic yet, but we're excited for the final product once we get it!