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.
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).
