Your Team's Logo

[216Robochick288]

Out of curiosity, I would like to know how your team came about their Logo, inspiration for it, or any fun back stories on him, her, or it.

I know that the original RoboDawgs logo came from a student, was modified last year, then the Dawg [Hex] came when I drew him . Our high schools Mascot was and is a Dog, so the Robotics team became the RoboDawgs [for a long story short]

So what is your Logo's story?

[Captain Slacker]

from what i've gathered... Team Paragon was named after a word of the day on dictionary.com. Paragon means perfection, often used in terms of diamonds, so the diamond became part of us. The lightbulb represents like a bright idea, so we mixed the two for our logo

[ttldomination]

Team 1261 is based out of Peachtree Ridge High School, home of the Lions. Naturally we adapted the Robo-lions as a name, and the Lion as a mascot.

Our logo is derived from the school logo. It shows a lion with long, flowing hair. Seen here. Back in 2007, a particularly artistic member took the long flowing hair and turned it into circuitry that slowly fades away.

We've been using the fading away circuitry every since.

[Peter Matteson]

We recreated the school mascot logo at some point early in our history (~15 years ago). Our version became the de-facto logo for the school after the administration saw our update.

[Captain Slacker]

Originally Posted by Captain Slacker

from what i've gathered... Team Paragon was named after a word of the day on dictionary.com. Paragon means perfection, often used in terms of diamonds, so the diamond became part of us. The lightbulb represents like a bright idea, so we mixed the two for our logo

**CORRECTION**
After looking up the word Paragon in the dictionary, the team found out that it was often associated with lightbulbs and diamonds. a merge of the two resulted in our logo

[Karibou]

I've told this story a million times, but I love telling it, so I'll do it again.

1189 started off as Breaking Pointe (Grosse Pointe, and we "broke" the rivalry between Grosse Pointe North and South high schools), with the mascot of a rabid squirrel. After a few years, we* realized how much the logo undermined the support of our sponsors. We also couldn't find any tools or materials that were ready-made to fit with our quirky color scheme. Did I mention that that logo was also really expensive to print on t-shirts and the like?

Sometime in 2003-04, a freshman drew the gearhead image and posted it in the shop. The image kept showing up in more and more places, and it was adopted as the team image starting with the 2004 competition season. We were still Breaking Pointe at that time.

We didn't become The Gearheads until 2004-05.

And now...the image (yellow diamonds, yellow/black, and sprockets/gears galore) is everywhere. On our shirts, in our hair, on our fingernails, on our shoes. On the robot, in the pit (The only non-black-and-yellow items there are spare parts and tools), on the judges, on our backpacks and purses, and on almost every competitor and spectator in the venue. Yellow diamonds work for us.

*note: I wasn't on the team at this point, and it really should be "they chose," but I'm speaking for the team as a whole, past and present.

[Katie_UPS]

We needed a logo, so (as I was told) four of our students (three guys and a girl) posed as a group and one of our students created the logo from the pictures that were taken. You can see part of the logo here in the header: http://team1675.com/

[Koko Ed]

Our logo is as old as our team. I personally don't know much about it's origins but a few years ago when Xerox changed it's logo we debated changing the pixilated X to a more standard X due to copyright issues but in the end we decided to stick with the pixilated X since it was so much a part of our identity.

[EricDrost]

At MORT's high school, Mount Olive, the mascot is a marauder. Our logo is a marauder with a screwdriver in his mouth instead of a knife. I have been told that we have "stolen" the idea from a hockey team from a technical college but I've yet to see our logo out of a robotics context.

You can see the logo as my avatar.

[AcesJames]

When 176 was first started, we were the Raiders of the Third Rail, and our mascot was a character similar to Indiana Jones running down railroad tracks. Obviously, the "third rail" is an electrical term, and the Raider was on of our school's mascots. So, once we had the name, the logo just came naturally.

After a few years, we switched to Aces High. Our main sponsor Hamilton Standard plays a large roll in building aircraft, so Aces High came along, inspired by the Flying Aces of WWI and WWII. However, we found it quite hard to really incorporate the plane theme into spirit and the robot, so the 4 Aces were brought in, and now our logo is a pair of Aces with a wrench behind it, and our mascots are the 4 Aces. Although, for a few years, our mascot and logo was a boy and girl wearing flight goggles and holding a deck of cards.

[Andrew Schuetze]

Would be great if posters also included a link or image of the logo.

In the second year of 499's history the team morphed from a single campus team to a school district team which had two high schools and one arts magnet program. This predicated the exclusion of school based themes or we would have been the Minuteman Rockets of Art

Being that our district is predominately hispanic, I chose to techify an ancient Meso-American culture (Toltecs) which are revered as artists and craftsmen. They also were something of scientists and beliefed that annual migrations of the Monarch butterfly were related to the gods. They used the butterfly on their chest plate...
The team name became Toltech and students on the team were asked to create a logo. Digital arts students worked with a T shape and the origianl artwork had a stone texture. The following year a graphic and web mentor modified it to add star burst chevrons to the circle and removed the stone texture. Color choice was Purple, Yellow/gold, and black.

Original graphic should be in my avatar and the current graphic can be seen on Maria's shirt in this picture from LSR 2009.

[kjolana1124]

Alright, long story time...GO!

So 1124 actually started out as the Cheetahs due to our sponsor, Cheetah Learning. Our first crate had Cheetah spots on it. Kind of awesome. This was way way way before my time (1124's rookie year I was in....4th grade). I wasn't even living in Avon at the time. So I know very very little about our Cheetah years.

From that point, you can find a lot of really old random pieces of memorabilia that show our changing look. When our sponsor switched over to UTC Chubb, we were named the Chubb Bots. Our theme was tye-dye then, I believe. A time period I think our older mentors and seniors are trying to forget....

Finally, we switched to UTC Fire and Security, which owns Chubb. From what I can deduce we voted on our name (maybe some people at UTCFS took part in the voting as well, can someone clarify this?). The logo was then designed by a former member of our team in his freshmen year. He's a freshmen in college now. Ever since, we've been bringing out that good ol' ÜberStyle ÜberGrace all day every day (well...not really. Many of our members feel embarrassed by it. We're working on that.)

I'm curious as to when 180 came up with their logo. Probably way before us, but it'd be interesting to finally see who the original FIRST Supermen were xD

[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)

[CalTran]

Our school's mascot are Mustangs, so naturally our team is the Metal Mustangs. We have this really amazing Sophomore (Junior next year) on our team who redraws the Mustang each year. It can be seen on our website banner: mmr2410.com

[XaulZan11]

You can see 1732's logo is if you look a little up and to the left (the lettering has actually changed. The current logo does not have "MUHS FRC").

We were uncreative (but original for FIRST) and just used our high school's mascot, the Hilltopper. One of our seniors on the team drew the logo, taking the one of the sports team's logo and slightly changing it to make it look more mechanical. After the first year, we decided we wanted to slightly change it so it would be more applicable to different media (letter-head, t-shirts, website...) and to change the lettering around the logo. While changing it, someone suggested shortening the snout/nose to make it look more like a ram and less like a horse. This is when a junior and one of the most involved students on the team said that he always thought a Hilltopper was horse...

I believe our website's banner (http://www.team1732.com/) has the old, 'horse' logo.