Should FRC Team name = HS athletic team name?

[philso]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

So when you see a black/neon green shirt in the crowd, it's almost instantly recognizable

That's if you missed the neon green hair...

[Al Skierkiewicz]

John,
WildStang is a combination of the original two schools that began our long history. The Wheeling Wildcats and the Rolling Meadows MuStangs. We now accept students from any district 214 school and home schoolers in our district. Long live the tie dye!

[dgsav24]

I'm from the Windham Windup from Windham NH, despite the school's athletic name being the Windham Jaguars. The boosters club does not financially support us, so we felt no pressure in having the same name. We have a different logo too, but it keeps the Jaguar in it, helping with team and town identity. We keep the high school logo on the robot on the sponsors panel because we are associated with them, and they do help us fund our trips.

[Maldridge422]

Originally Posted by MamaSpoldi

Team 230 has often been asked where we got our name, a.k.a. "What the heck is a gaelhawk?" The Gaelhawks name comes from a combination of the high school mascot, the Gael, and a well-known product from our originating and continuing primary sponsor Sikorsky Aircraft, the Black Hawk helicopter.

Gael + Hawk = GaelHawks!

I think the sponsor tie-in is a good one that is maybe not seen as often. We also use the school colors of orange and black. The combination of those colors and "Gael" as part of our name definitely help make us part of the school's team community. Of course, our tshirt cannon at the pep rallies helps too.

Our team name uses a sponsor tie-in too. Because we aren't associated with a single high school, our name is derived from the mascot used by our primary supporter, the University of Virginia. We also use their colors, blue and orange.

[Richard Wallace]

Our school athletic team name is Bears. There are teams already using that name in FRC (hi 247!) and our students didn't like the variant that was suggested: RoBears. I can't fault them for that.

They chose to be called Average Joes before I even showed up for a meeting. I liked it then and I like it now.

Especially when the results are above average!

[Gregor]

We are RUNNYMEDE ROBOTICS.

The school is Runnymede Collegiate.

We're creative.

[Chris is me]

We're Shaker Robotics, from Shaker High School. Our mascot is the blue bison, which is the same as Shaker High's athletic mascot. I guess our logo is cooler though.

We tried to think of anything better and less boring our first two seasons. We couldn't. We were almost "Terminal Velocity" once...

[pmangels17]

Our high school mascot is the Marauders, so we stuck something technical in front that wasn't robo- or -otics and turned into the Mechanical Marauders. Though we share a name, we developed a gearlike marauder head (the "gearhead") and use black and yellow as our colors, not the maroon and white that is in my profile pic. It helps us tie into the school and the community, and also lets us make a lasting impression and retain our own identity.

Side note: making your shirts black means that any pit grease/grime/dirt doesn't show up as easily at competition, and helps to maintain a clean uniform look, though tie dye and other colors certainly do pop.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Our school athletic team name is Bears. There are teams already using that name in FRC (hi 247!) and our students didn't like the variant that was suggested: RoBears. I can't fault them for that.

They chose to be called Average Joes before I even showed up for a meeting. I liked it then and I like it now.

Especially when the results are above average!

Though, your team is at least named after your town.

[Electronica1]

Before using a high school team name for your frc name, do a quick search on blue alliance and make sure there aren't other teams with that same name.

[JustbeingJFK]

Our school mascot was a tiger so we just keep the tiger and redesigned it for robotics and got the name TechTigers. But, we have different colors than the school because if we were a school event, we wanted people to know that we are robotics.

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

Personally, I like having a distinct theme apart from the other organizations at our school. Cinco Ranch is pretty big, fielding a little under 4000 students, so there are a ridiculous amount of student clubs and organizations. Our colors are maroon and white with the cougar for mascot, so it seems like band, orchestra, choir, academic decathlon, all the athletics - they all have maroon and white shirts.

So when you see a black/neon green shirt in the crowd, it's almost instantly recognizable

Gonna go the whole thread without mentioning 624's original team name?

[Koko Ed]

My team's name is a homage top both the high schools mascot the Joseph C. Wilson High School Wildcats and the sponsor Xerox. Thus we are the X-Cats.

[Bruce Newendorp]

Our high school mascot is a tiger. From 2001 to 2006 we did not have a consistent name and changed our look every year. We had a tiger image on our shirts one year - I think it was 2002. In 2007 we became the Swartdogs. It was a name our students had wanted to use prior to that honoring our lead mentor Kenton Swartley who founded the team as Team 332 in 1999. Kenton said he would agree to the name if it were an acronym. Immediately one of our students said Students Working Around Robotics Technology. We've been the Swartdogs from then on. We are very proud of his 16 years of dedication and how this has all led to many FIRST teams in this area.

[Joey1939]

My high school's mascot is the Knight, so we decided to take on a Monty Python twist. In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there is a scene where a French Knight yells "You silly English Kuhnigits," which gives us our name, the Kuhnigits. Every year our robot is based off a character in the movie: Cave Beast in 2014, Killer Rabbit in 2013, Black Knight in 2012, and more.

Also, I haven't seen 1986 post, so I will add in their name. Their school mascot is the Titans, which they changed into Titanium. Their FTC team is then Aluminum.