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Originally Posted by Jared341

153 was known as the Wombats for at least one of their years in FIRST; they were our "twin" team for a while when both 341 and 153 were sponsored by Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical. In fact, in 2002 when we were voting on team names, we very nearly selected the Wombats instead of Miss Daisy.

Every year at our off-season event, Ramp Riot, we reserve a spot for pre-rookies to compete with our practice robot; we use number 153 for this entry in honor of our old mentors. In years past, teams like 1712 and 2234 have competed as team 153.

A small correction. Team 153 was never known as the Wombats during a regular FRC season. Their robot name each year was "Smokey". Also team 153 was our "sister" team, not really a "twin" in the modern FRC understanding of the word. We would sometimes swap mentors around, but we always built independently from each other. 153 did most of their building out of a wonderful company called Universal Machine and we built at the local O-M facility in Springhouse, PA.

153 had some great kids, great machines and great mentors. We still miss them.