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Our team got it's name 4 years ago by taking a combination of the East Islip High School regular sports team name: the EI Redmen. Coupled with the type of product our very first sponsor, AIL Systems manufactured: Radar Jamming Equipment.
Put it together and you have : The RedJammers!!
We have kept the team name as it has become sort of a tradition.
The robot's name changes every year. There are 4 elementary schools in the district and in the beginning of December the team holds a 'name the robot' contest. They visit each of the elementary schools with the previous years robot, performing demonstrations and promoting FIRST and the team. Then ballot boxes are left in the schools and retrieved a week later. One finalist from each elementary school is chosen and each of those students receives a team T-shirt (itself a major fashion statement of style and grace!)
Last year's robot was named EInstein (a capital EI for East Islip) Geez! I wish the team had a dollar for all of the "robby the robot" entries received.
This years name hasn't been announced yet. Soon though soon, when the time is right........
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15-01-2002, 22:42
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