Team Names – How?

[DevilChild]

Well, our team name is the Red Devils, because that is our school's sports name and mascot, and our theme is fire and brimstone and otherwise the depths of... you know. Our robot's name is Diablo normally, and we, the Red Devils, are his minions. But we also have been known to call him Belzebot, depending on how cultish we're feeling. LOL But anyway, at the end of each season, that year's robot also gets dubbed another, more personalized name, such as Hang-Bot, Mini-Bot, and X-Bot.

[Pat Fairbank]

From what I understand (not having been around when Team 296 was founded), the "Northern" in our name comes from the fact that our primary sponsor in 1999 was Northern Telecom (today known as Nortel Networks) and of course the fact that we're Canadian.

As far as I know, the only reason "Knights" was picked was that "Northern Knights" sounds kind of like "northern lights".