[GeeTwo]

Nothing quite so neat for us.

First year: simply a Leet spelling of the school mascot: T1G3R, which ultimately goes back to the legendary ferocity of a unit of the Louisiana militia which fought for the Confederacy in the 1860s. The "official" name of the robot each year has been to raise this to the second, third, or fourth power.

Second year: no nickname, simply T1G3R².

Third year: Our prototype robot was literally framed in 2"x4"s and 2"x2"s, and (mentor) Lester began referring to it as "Woody". Someone used a soldering iron to burn "Andy" into the wood. When we built the competition 'bot with a much cooler aluminum and steel frame, and we included some green LED lighting into the "shoulders", naming it "Buzz" was a natural.

Fourth (latest) year: We had decided that pre-build that we would build "twin" robots. Early in the process, we intentionally asked for names, at a mostly programming meeting. At that point, the prototype robot was named Atlas, and the competition robot Peabody. Unfortunately, the names got assigned to the radios, not the robots. Like many sets of twins through the years, no one at this point is really sure which was really Atlas and which was really Peabody, or even whether the one we used at competition is the one we're now using for demos, or is the one we mostly disassembled.