Team Names – How?

[stinger]

Our team name is either the greybots or GRR. i forget which. greybots is a combination of our school mascot the greyhound and the word robot. GRR stands for Greyhound Revolutionary Robotics.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Wildstang is a contraction of the Wheeling WILDcats and the Rolling Meadows MuSTANGs. The first year sudents from the two schools decided on the name and the tie-dye team uniform. Hence a legend was born.

[Libby Ritchie]

Well, when we first started, we couldn't think of a name, so I came up with the team name "The Bee Bots". (our school mascot is a yellow jacket) After a year of my students making fun of me and telling me that it was not working, our athletic director made a suggestion to go with Full Metal Jackets. I loved it, it didn't sound so whimpy to the kids, so we changed! Andy Baker still loves to tease me about the "Bee Bots"!! I will never live that one down.

As far as how we name our robot, we allow the team captain from the previous year to name the robot. (the captain this year will name next year's robot) We have had co-captains the past two years, so one named the robot last year and the other did this year. They get suggestions from the rest of the team, but they go with the name they like the most. It's been fun.

[Meyerman]

Team name RoBBE Xtreme comes from Robotics Of Bound Brook, Ethicon and the team motto thing is we take robotics to the Xtreme soo you put the 2 together you get RoBBE Xtreme. in 1997 it was Crusin' Crusaders our school mascot is a Crusader, 1998 it was RoBBE's Roadrunners no clue how that came about lol, but from 1999 on its been RoBBE Xtreme.

[neilsonster]

Club Sandwich... our school is called Sandwich Secondary School. Yep! Get it? Club Sandwich, it's like the thing you order at a restaurant... but we're a CLUB of people.............................wow

[Double X]

Our team name is Double X because we are an all girls team (two X chromosomes in girls...).

[santosh]

2003 DOT-Distance Over Time because we were a rookie year. It was an inspirational name
2004 Captain Caribeener- Our robot used a caribeener to hook onto the bar and well, pirates of teh Caribean was out that same time.
2005 Gnat- we had a holonomic drive train and we were really fast and we could have annoyed other robots like gnats do for people.
And our team name is the CircuitRunners. It was the only other suggested name besides Halo. I think we picked the better name.

[macurtis]

It's taken three years for this to catch on but I think 74 has finally landed on RoboDutch.

Robo (Robotic)
(Holland) Dutch

With there being four other robotics teams in the Holland Area, and our school teams are all the Holland Dutch, it's kinda hard to come up with something definitive.

[dmurdz]

Mechatronic (Mechanical)
Maniacs (Craziness)

The Mechatronic Maniacs
It can be a tounge twister though

[rocketdawg3000]

Cutting Edge Robotics
We got it from the song "Living on the edge" so we changed it to living on the cutting edge of technology. And got our name from that

[spamified88]

Hi! I'm from team 1257-Parallel Universe. I know we got our team name from a physics book. I think we chose it because we're all kinda off kilter on our team. I'm not quite sure how we got our new logo, the robo snail, though.

[Chris Sturrock]

well, our team name is spartonics,
our school mascot is a spartan, we wanted to make it sound more robotic like, and eventually settled on spartonics.

our robot name, Spartek, was actually suggested as the team name, but we all voted that it sounded better for the robot.

Our logo is a robotic spartan... I think it works well with the name

[Libby K]

We are the Royal Knights, our school mascot is a knight.

we had SO many choices for names...including [and i'm SO glad it lost] "second robotics".

...apparently there's some kind of spin from "FIRST robotics" offa that. i just don't get it.

but our robot is SIR LANCE-A-BOT.....like lancelot....we can't reallythink of anything knight-related for a robot name so we might just have to have lance jr, lance 2, 3, 4 or something like that.

[Daniel Morse]

Our team name "The Dirty Birds" is derived from the early days of our team (early-mid 90's). When we were first formed, the team consisted primarily of members of the football team. At that time, the football team had a bad reputation of playing very dirty, and since our school mascot is the blackbird, the football team earned the name "The Dirty Birds". This carried over to the robotics team and stuck. Despite the negative origin of the name, we are proud to be the Dirty Birds, and there are no longer negative connotations connected to the name. By the way, there was only one football player on our team this year (thats usually around max that choose to join).

[Qbranch]

1024 = 0x400 = 2^10 = 1 Kilobyte

and then that kind of morphed to 1 Kil-A-Byte

-Q