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Well, with team 308, we're Walled Lake schools and TRW. Trying to make a play off the Lockness monster, one of our engineers came up with the Walled Lake Monster. Don't ask where Robostars came from... I don't remember
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121 is actually the Islanders (we live on an island, every sport team uses it), but with a lot of teams, the robot name is what sticks. So, we are commonly refered to as the Rhode Warriors. I can think of a few other teams this applies to as well.

I guess as long as a crowd remembers your name, it really doesn't matter.
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Unread 10-01-2002, 18:01
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Our team (#201) is called the FEDS. Our original sponsor was EDS, so we took the F from Falcons (our school mascot) and put EDS at the end.

When we lost EDS and picked up Visteon as our sponsor, we now had a name derived from a former sponsor that we didn't particularly like at that point. The name, however, was what we were known as, so we developed a clever acronym for FEDS:

Falcon Engineering and Design Solutions

So there you have it, the clever backronym for our team name.

As for our robot, only one of them, our 2001 robot, has a name. It was called Tippy in honor of its apparent lack of balance when on the floor (not on the bridge, it was fine there ).
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Sorry....

Matt, thanks for the correction. I was a bit out of it when I wrote this thread (always am), and I will make sure I don't do it in the future.
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Unread 10-01-2002, 19:47
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My team is called the "Cheesy Poofs" from South Park. It was chosen when South Park first came out, and we've stuck with it. Like SharkBite said, it is important to stick with the team name you have so people recognize your team from year to year.
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Ours was hard!

Originally, I asked the high school students to come up with something. They came up with Eagles and Fantasia. Ech!

So I sat down one day in the Physics Club room at umass and started thinking of names they could vote on. One of them was Rambots. I came up with this name when I saw the Rambo poster on the wall .

I also came up with other cool names that got voted down :

Robot Dinero
Botman and Robit
FemBots
etc..

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Taylor Career Technical Center aNd Taylor Truman/Kennedy H.S. schools

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Last years Bot was named "MOOSE" because it looked like a moose with it's grippers in the upright position (hey it was 3 am the night before ship date and I had the label maker out...the rest is history)

No name as of yet for this years Beast.... Beast ...hmmmmm...well maybe? nah... too soon to tell
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you know, i was there at the meeting where our team and robot names were decided... and i still have no idea where they came from. and come to think of it, it had to indirectly have come from me, since brits don't know about sporks. but now we're S.P.O.R.K. = Secret Phrases Only Roboticians Know. or something like that. with our bot 'ginger ninja'. that rhymes. really.

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Our Team name is the N.E.W. Apple Corps... and we got our name because we are based in Appleton Wisconsin, hence Apple ... and then N.E.W stands for North, East, West which are the three highschools involved in the Appleton Public School District. We also have some members from Xavier, which is a private school we just havent found a good way to incorporate them into our name yet. And our Robot name is Tobor, which is robot backwards. I'm not sure how that was come up with, maybe someone else from my team could answer that all I know is all of our robots have been named Tobor. Tobor I, Tobor II, Tobor III, Tobor IV and this year we're working on Tobor V.
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Thanks

The response to this thread has been great! I love learning about how all of your team names came about (I especially like the N.E.W. Apple Corps, it's very punny).

Keep it up! (and, just as a quick question, what do YOU think of OUR name?)
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Much irony here. Our team was born in 1997-98 (details on our creation can be found in the "creation myth" on our website, http://home.earthlink.net/~nonnebots/about.html). As students from Nonnewaug High School, Nonne was a given, and what did we build? a roBot. Hence Nonnebots. Spanning the first two years, we were sponsored by a local engineering firm, and recieved a bit of cash from Nonnewaug. However, in our third and fourth year Nonnewaug cut off all funding and support towards our team, leaving us with just the engineering group. For these 2 years, we had no affiliation with the school whatsoever. (during the past 6 years, our school has changed administration [principle, vice principle, superintendant] 3 or 4 times, resulting in widespread instability in budget and spending). Yet at the demand of one of our parent volunteers, our team remained "Nonnebots." (despite widespread, virtually 100% disagreement from students). Anyway, present year rolls around, and over the past summer, due to reasons far beyond our control, our sponsor could no longer support us, leaving our entire team sponsor and moneyless. Nonnewaug decided to throw us a bone and give us a small bit of cash. Not much, barely enough to register a regional, but we became an official "school club" once again. And so presently, Nonnebots. But still much to the protest of the student members.
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Unread 11-01-2002, 10:56
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The Baxter Bomb Squad name comes from the Mountain Home High School mascot - Bombers. The school was built just after WWII when it was a good thing to be a "bomber". It is the only school in the US with that team name.

We have thought about if our name is still appropriate and have even talked to FIRST about it. Their thoughts were that a Bomb Squad is made up of "good guys" so it's ok.

We have always been very sensitive about our shirts and this year our team decided not to wear them outside the FIRST venues.
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Robonauts - Ho!!!!

Team #118 out of Houston is the Robonauts, because most of the team's engineers (myself included) work at NASA on a project called (you guessed it) Robonaut.

Check him out here - http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er_er/h.../robonaut.html

The team's robot last year was called Condor because it looked rather birdlike after it was built, due to the 15' telescoping ball grabber arms, and the shorter pointed goal arm in the front. The previous year (before my time, but I'll share the legend) the robot was called "Hot Rod" because whenever it moved, it popped a wheelie. 118 tends to wait until the robot has started to take shape before they determine a name.
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Furious George

Oh yeah - I almost forgot:

Furious George was the name of Mr. Burn's knife-fighting monkey on the Simpsons.

There was an episode where Homer was left in charge of Burn's house, and took his yacht to international waters, where they, among other things, staged a monkey knife fight. When Burns came home to see his monkey bandaged up, he exclaimed, "Furious George! What happened to your beautiful face?"


And now you know the rest of the story.
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401 The Hokie GUARD

Our first year we were the Blacksburg Power Surge (big suprise that one didn't stick, but technically we weren't allowed to use the name "Blacksburg High School" since that year we had no official school support. Since our team is now more established and has more support, we're The Hokie GUARD
Hokie, from the mascot of Virginia Tech, where most of the team mentors are from, GUARD being both a regiment of soldiers, and an accronym, as inspired by the HOT team (heros of tomorrow). We're still debating to keep the accronym or just leave it as guard with no other meaning, but if we keep the accronym, its
GUARD - Gladiators of Uniquely Accelerated Robot Development
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