[James1902]

In late December 2005 a bunch of students from Winter Park High School got together after class with the intention of fielding a FIRST team in 2006. (Well most of us had that intention, one of our students who had no engineering or science inclinations was there because she heard we brought a Chick-Fil-A nugget platter, she got hooked and was on the team through her graduation.)

One of the first subjects on the meeting agenda was to decide on a team name, because we didn't have very much time till kickoff we threw out a bunch of names to vote on including some found on a random name generator on the internet. Organized Chaos was the name we decided on followed by a few others including Exploding Bacon. After the vote we decided on a time and place to watch the kickoff and do some brainstorming and then everyone went home for the holidays.

Even though the team had chosen Organized Chaos, Exploding Bacon had been stuck in one of our mentors heads and she mentioned it to her mother over dinner one night. Her mother found the name very funny and a little while later started doodeling on her napkin at the table.

The pig on a rocket napkin drawing was brought to out next meeting, kickoff, and the whole team loved it so much we had an instant re-vote and Organized Chaos became Exploding Bacon.

Initially our colors were black and gold because we had students from multiple schools and we couldn't agree on a color scheme so we took the patten of the local college UCF. The next year we decide on orange and green because it stood out and we couldn't think of any other teams with that color scheme.
Now orange and green tend to permiate our lives, we color hair, paint nails, get orange bags, orange and green converse shoes, orange hats, etc. etc. etc.

(sorry for the long post, but it's a long story)