[TheSuzy343]

The concept of creating a competely separate theme comes from the fact that many teams represent more than one high school and having a separate identity prevents alienating one specific school. Our team represents 5 high schools, one of which is not even in our district. Our marketing sub team has people who come to robotics just to do marketing, so for us, our rock and roll theme became team identity, which mocks corporate identity. Our Rock and Roll theme obviously has nothing to do with any of our schools or robotics and engineering, but it was easy for people to recognize last year and so it stuck. However, if your team only represents one high school then it would probably be beneficial to at least incorporate the colors into the designs, etc, which is easily established without changing the entire of identity of the team. It all depends on your situation. If it will attract more students and make the ones you have more easily incorporated into the community, then I say go for it. If you're going to wind up leaving people out, then I say fahgetaboudit.