Should FRC Team name = HS athletic team name?

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When founded in 2006, McKinley Tech HS in Washington, DC was known as the Phoenix, as McKinley Tech was shut down, remodeled, and reopened in about 2004. Evidently, the alumni complained about changing from the original name for athletic teams, the "Trainers," so the "Phoenix" was abandoned by the school. The school colors were silver and maroon through out this period.

The robotics team was already known as the "Phoenix," which, we thought, fit the robotics team, as we were always rising from the ashes of the previous season. We altered this to "Firebirds," got official, written permission from GM to use the Pontiac Firebird logo for our team materials, and changed our team colors to red and black, adding in orange, yellow, and white where necessary to add flames to our logos.