Robot names and Team mottos

[Alex2614]

I guess MARS is kind of boring with their robot names.

08- Marvin I
09- Marvin II
10- Marvin III
11- Marvin IV (Beta and Alpha)
12- MarVin (Beta and Alpha)
13- MarVIn (Beta and Alpha)

Right before we traveled to our first (FIRST) competition our rookie year, a newspaper reporter asked us what the robot's name was while he was taking pictures in the machine shop. We had to come up with a name quickly, someone thought of Marvin Martian, and the name just stuck through all these years.

We've had some interesting practice robots and donated robots from folded teams in the area, including

Kick-me
Sparky (the one that caught fire)
Dumbot (our rookie year version of a practice bot)
Smartbot
ParadeBot (aka Marvin from our team logo) - Featured in the children's storybook "Marvin the Friendly Robot. He likes to play soccer, eat nuts and bolts, and sometimes he gets hurt, but his friends help him get better

We did an off-season intra-team competition a while back, where the robots were Phobos and Diemos. I think we had similar names for our minibots in 2011, but I can't remember.

While not necessarily a robot name, we named a particular part of our robot last year the "MARS Probes" because they "probed" a ball out of a corner.

In my opinion, our motto is pretty unique.
"We came to be inspired. We stay because we are. We will become the inspiration." It was slightly modified and used in the script when our mentor won the CMP WFA last year :')