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Raider Robotix came from our school's team the "Raiders". I still dont know what a raider is but the mascot for the school is a tough looking eagle in a tight blue sweater. I thought "raiders" were bad birds that killed baby birds in the nest. So I guess we are stuck with a name for a sinister, nest robbing, coward raptor.
The line of Evil Machines was the incidental brainchild of Mark Leone. Since 2000 we always listen to the other teams for the best name for that season's robot. In 2003, when we had the original Evil Machine, we were in a furious scrambling, pushing match for the platform in the Stack Attack game. In that round our partner accidentally got in the way and we nearly tipped them over. Mark's announcing voice chimed out "thats one evil machine- they dont like anybody!!!". From then on the name stuck and we have had 4 Evil Machines- 2 of which made it to National finalist. So I guess team 25 is named for killer birds and sinister mechanics. I guess that beats "the fluffy bunnies" WC ![]() |
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604 was known as the Sillowhats for three years, from 2001 to 2003. In 2005 the current group of students got together and we decided to have a new name. After brainstorming a bit and not really agreeing on one name, a team member suggested Quicksilver, since San Jose has a long history of mercury mining (our school is only about 5 minutes from the Almaden Quicksilver mines). It was a great suggestion, and we all agreed.
Yet we wanted the name to be a little different, so we changed the spelling from "Quicksilver" to "Quixilver", which does look cooler when it's spelled out on out shirts and our robot. I think their is no better choice since not only does it sound good when you spell it out or say it, it also says a little about our team's history. Go Quixilver! ![]() |
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Just off the top of the noggin': - Daze'n (Daze'n Knight) - Silent Knight (it doesn't speak, you see...) - Over Knight (it's the top bot...) - The Knight Bus (for all you Harry Potter fans - it dashes, and stops suddently) A sample of various punnish "Knights of the FIRST table": Cir Cuit: An electrical Knight Cir Culation: A library or spinning Knight Ser Pent: Snake Knight (for a snake-like robot design) or spelling it the other way: Circus: A swearing Knight ...etc... I'm sure you can come up with something, with a bit of warped thought! ... and if not, warped thinking is what your team's Engineers are for! ![]() (And remember - One Grocer equals 144 Knights...) Good luck! - Keith |
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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.
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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". |
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cute ideas! i'm putting this on the team forum.... and about the engineers...uhm....we're rookies. i'm sad to admit...we don't have any. seriously. none. so...warped thinking left to us, i guess. |
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Oh boy, team names. Our team's currently in its fourth generation when it comes to team names, and we'll yell at anyone who tries to change it again.
Back in 2001 we started out as Mr. Roboto. Someone listened to too much music, I honestly don't know how that name came about. In 2002 and 2003 we were the Radio-active Pajama Monkeys (named after our official furry mascot). In 2003 we usually just referred to ourselves as RPM as most people didn't like the name anymore. In 2004 we became the Armor Plated Serpentines because our school mascot is a Cobra (we're the Cactus Cobras), and came up with a nice metallic snake for our logo. In 2005 and 2006 we kept the same logo from before but changed to the Cobra Commanders as it sounded slightly cooler, and it was a nice joke to GI Joe. So now we have three mascots, a cobra, a cactus, and a monkey. Most of our robots have either been RoboCobra Version X, or RAGE for our monkey. |
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Team Name - Robonauts
How we got it - Most of our engineers work for NASA and build robots. They worked on one project called Robonaut, and that is how we got our name. -Pavan Dave. |
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We've been through three names so far as I know. Rookie year (2002) we were "Einstein's Minions", which sounds really cool, and I don't know why (or when) it was switched to "RoboSpartans", (Spartans is the school mascot) and now to the even more mundane "Spartan Robotics". We may revert back to Einstein's Minions, but they'll probably do something having to do with our pants (for those who saw us in Galileo this year)...the current favorite is "Fance Pants Revolution", which may be just cheesy enough to be cool.
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Team 1519's name came from our FLL team Mindstorms M a y h e m who won the Director's Award at the 2004 FLL World Festival in only their second year! As a result, the LEGO Corporation gave us a challenge grant to start an FRC team! So, Mechanical M a y h e m was started in 2005 with graduates from the FLL team. We competed at the BAE Granite State Regional and came home with the Rookie Inspiration Award.
We also started a 501(c)(3) organization called M a y h e m Inc. M a y h e m stands for Milford Area Youth Homeschoolers Enriching Minds because we are a mainly homeschooled team. Another team began in 2004 called More M a y h e m whose members are mainly siblings of the members of the original team. Our rookie year's robot was called "Elvis, King of Rack and Rail" We recently reused it's drivebase for our "three day bot" that we made for M a y h e m in Merrimack. It was called "Elvis Reloaded". Our 2006 robot was called "Sgt. York" after the WW1 hero. Last edited by Tapoore : 26-06-2006 at 16:46. Reason: word m a y h e m not shown ??? |
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#146
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People actually often ask where our name comes from. Our team comes from Housatonic Valley Regional HS (pronounced "Hoo sa tonic") nicknamed Housy (hoo see). We transformed that into Who'sC and thus we are the Who'sCTEKS.
After deciding on that name the question mark symbol seemed rather fitting. Our chemistry teacher can manipulate tye-dye so that it doesn't run too much and creates all of the team shirts. This symbol has proved to be very marketable. And, it's fun to draw so I like it. Our other mascot is a frog because of the cartoon of a frog refusing to be swallowed by a stork. Hence our motto "Don't ever give up." The robots...1st robot was Reggie 1 for Region One, our school district. Then Reggie 2 and 3 because no one changed it. But having three reggies was getting confusing so we continued the "who" theme with Housywhat'sit and Housywhere'sit. And last year's Jeremiah after Jeremiah the bullfrog. Next year's name is undecided but so far I vote for the Who'sizzit. (Who's is it) |
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166's robots in past years have been named Tommy Hawk, a play on words of the school's mascot: the Tomahawk.
There have been different names in between the Tommy Hawks. Tommy Hawk V was the last Tommy Hawk back in 2004. Last year our robot was named Otis relating to Otis elevators, and this year it was named Scorpio because the shooter resembles a scorpion tail. I have no idea about the team name, though. |
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Team we got our name from where we live..........VEGAS!!!
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Sometimes names just pop up in the most unusual ways. 1902 was originally going to be named Organized Chaos but one of the design days one of our programmers asked roughly when the robot was going to be in a condition to program and some one said when pigs fly. We were all a bit slap happy at this time because we had been at my house for a pretty long time and a couple of the students started speculating on ways to make pigs fly without wings. One of the obvious solutions was to strap it to a rocket. One of the girls looked up with a horrified look on her face and said "but some rockets explode." At witch we all laughed and someone put it into the very fun term of "Exploding Bacon" and we ran with it.
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Well, we're from The Harker School, and our team name is simply Harker Robotics...
The robots' names tend to be deliberately misspelled physics-y terms. 2003-"Tork," 2004-"Phorce," 2006-"Vektor" 2005, "Spark," was the exception. A lot of people wanted to call it "Sparq" or "Spork" but majority ruled for "Spark." |
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