What's in a name? New Championship Divisions

[ay2b]

At the 2014 Championship, they announced that the 2015 Championship would be bigger -- taking up three venues instead of just one. A very reasonable conclusion from that is that there will be more divisions at each level, and in particular more than 4 divisions for FRC next year. I've heard competing rumors that there will be either 6 or 8 divisions in FRC. My question for the community is:

What names would you like to see used for new divisions?

My personal top choices are Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, and Grace Hopper, who developed the first compiler.

Additionally, I believe that at least half of the divisions at each level (FLL, FTC & FRC) should be named after women. That means for FRC, if they add two, they should both be women, and if they add four, at least three should be women.

Wikipedia has some lists that may be relevant:

• List of female scientists before the 21st century
• Index of women scientists articles

What names would you like to see used?

[MooreteP]

Henrietta Leavitt, the astronomer who created the method for measuring the size of the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt

Alan Turing,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
A Turing machine is a hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm, and is particularly useful in explaining the functions of a CPU inside a computer.
He could be our Michael Sam?

Karel Capek,
Why not an artist? Gave us the word Robot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Čapek

None of these names have the recognition that that the current divisions have. That is an issue.
History is written by the victors.

[cadandcookies]

Hopper and Lovelace divisions seconded. Both are incredibly inspirational.

[Jessica Boucher]

Bring back Watt.

[ks68]

Kepler Division?

[brennonbrimhall]

I'd like to see a Schrodinger Division. Since we no longer can make jokes about the Curie Curse, it would be fun to see a division that may or may not be alive, real, etc.

[Whippet]

I would love to see a Herschel division.

[MrSandman416]

I would like to see "Tesla", "Da Vinci", or "Hawking"

[Andrew Schreiber]

Oppenheimer - Because being on the cover of TIME (http://content.time.com/time/covers/...481108,00.html) and LIFE (http://oldlifemagazines.com/october-...zine-2058.html) magazines isn't pretty common among scientists.

[Michael Hill]

Frank mentioned in Game Sense that there would probably be named after a minority scientist/inventor.

[dodar]

Carver and Kepler are 2 that havent been mentioned yet or very minimally.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

Frank mentioned in Game Sense that there would probably be named after a minority scientist/inventor.

George Washington Carver would probably be a pretty good candidate for this one. I know there are more, though.

[ks68]

What about a Copernicus Division?

[BL0X3R]

It probably won't happen, but an Asimov Division would be cool.

[Brad Hanel]

Earheart Division

Amelia Earheart, the famous pilot and military nurse.

Barton Division

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross

Walker Division

Madame C.J. Walker, first female self-made millionare in America.

Blackwell Division

Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to graduate from medical school.

Roebling Division

Emily Warren Roebling, lead of CAD (the paper version ) on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Tesla Division

Nikola Tesla, the one who gave us AC current and the coils that museums play Portal songs with.

Plato Division

Plato, teacher of Aristotle, Greek philospher.


I'm sure they're considering a lot of females for the new division names, especially after Dean Kamen's 50/50 speech, and I'm all for it. Madame Curie needs some friends.