Team member Nick Names

[smurfgirl]

My robotics nickname is Smurf. Our team's primary color is blue, which meant we use blue paint and spray paint a lot. Paint plus robotics kids usually means there will be a mess to clean up, but one time in particular I had an incident with a can of blue spray paint which left my arms and blue for about two weeks, which is how that nickname was born.

[Carolyn Duncan]

When I had a team, I was known as the "What if chick" because that's what I always said. I could spot the problems with a design or some part of the assembly but couldn't explain it very well. So I would say"what if ______ happens?" Lightbulbs would go on all over the shop...

[LightWaves1636]

Back on my old FRC Team was Lightwaves in the Colorado FRC Community cause the only explanation to how I was able to accomplish everything I accomplished, I had to be moving at the speed of light....also in Tech Theater I was the Light Chief since 9th grade till mid-12th and I got nicknamed Light Goddess and Lightwaves got derived from there.

Our Head Mentor gets referred to as "Master Splinter" by our students sometimes and one student called me "Red Leader", that was funny/interesting....

[SammyKay]

Our only freshman girl this year got the nickname Grasshopper. I don't exactly remember why, but I think it had something to do with one of our juniors trying to teach her something.

That same junior got the name Charzard (no idea how), the other junior got the name Velosoraptor (I am sure I messed up the spelling hahaha), and I have the name Taco. no idea why. haha

My nickname was very random...since the three other girls had nicknames (the above names) the two juniors were trying to come up with a name for me. and Charzard came up with Taco. haha

Another freshman really messed up his shoulder during wrestling about half way through Build...so, he got the names Gimp and One-Arm. Earlier that year he got the name Chains because he was really good at working with chains. plus it worked cuz his actual name is Gain.

Since my freshman year, one of the other seniors (Mathew) has had the nickname Baby Thew, but only with certain people on our team. He was playing with the Coke trays and was stacking them up. So the 8th grader at the time called him Baby Thew.

One of our mentors is very particular about the pit. like, everything has its spot and he makes sure the pit is clean all the time, especially at night. another mentor made the comment "He's like my grandmom was in the kitchen! everything had its place!" thus, MomMom Fordham was named. Tho I think I'm the only one that calls him that still...hahaha

One of our mentors has the nickname Speeder....you get one guess why ahhaa

Our team leader (mentor) has the nickname Empress...Whenever she walks in the door after traveling, you hear "Empress on Deck!" from every mentor hahaha

I'm sure that as soon as I post this, I'll come up with more haha

[SammyKay]

Originally Posted by LightWaves1636

one student called me "Red Leader", that was funny/interesting....

When we traveled a few years ago, we have an EIRC van that we would call Red Leader...We had White Castle (a white Expedition I believe) and Black Mambo (black Explorer?)

not people nicknames, but still nicknames

[LightWaves1636]

Oh yeah! I forgot, our programming team lead's nickname used to be "Padwon" when she first joined cause she was scary fast with all the training we have on the team and she zoomed right through everything and when the build season became over and her programming skills are just totally awesome, we call her "Jedi".

[Frenchie461]

Since my last name is "French", the nickname Frenchie was obvious