Team Names – How?

[irishninja]

I know this doesn't have to do with robot names, but its a funny story about a geeky team naming themselves that my math teacher told me. He use to teach in Texas. Because of this, all the sports teams named themselves the Oilers. When he started a math team, the principle suggested the name of the Oilers so they would fit in with the rest of the school. My math teacher came back the next day with a different name, pronounced the same way. The Eulers.

True Story.

[double_check]

Well, my team has a fairly interesting that people can recognize from pop culture when they hear it. I'm from 692 or St. Francis High School. It's an all girls Catholic school and our team name is the Fembots. I'm not exactly sure who came up with it or why but I know we got it from Austin Powers. Our robots have had the names Camelot, Anklebiter, and the Precious. Camelot came about because it looked like a castle and one day I said someone said I dub thee Camelot and dubbed it with a pool noodle that was supposed to be used for bumpers. Anklebiter is from programming the robot so only motor would run and the robot would spin in circles trying to take out people's ankles during build season. The Precious is from Lord of the Rings obviously.

[JaneYoung]

This is a little long.
- The team's high school is LBJ High School and their school colors are purple and white. The school mascot is the jaguar.
- Austin has a colony of bats that nest under the Congress bridge, the Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). They are a seasonal tourist attraction due to their daily foraging migrations at sunset.
- Austin has a minor league hockey team, the Ice Bats, named in honor of these bats. This hockey team formed about the time our team was looking for a name.
When it came time to register the team for FIRST, the name for the team was slow in developing. Finally with deadline approaching, our teacher, Mr. Tony Bertucci, told the team that if they didn't come up with a name, he was going to name the team, The Robo Bats. The team didn't like that and came up with Purple Haze with 2 thoughts in mind. They thought it still worked with the school colors and they thought they knew something their teacher didn't. They figured he wouldn't have any idea who Jimi Hendrix was or know anything about Purple Haze and that it would be an inside joke. They got that part wrong but the name stuck. Every couple of years or so, we tie dye tees for the team and this year our bumpers were tie dyed.

[MChapman]

Alright...ACES High does seem a bit odd but this is our story behind that: When our team was just Windsor Locks kids the team was the Raiders after the WL mascot. But while at competitions all the students ever did was play cards. So when Suffield joined the team and they continued the playing cards tradition we changed our name to ACES High. Now our robots in past years have just been named either randomly or named with mentors names...however this year we kept with the card theme an Pokerface became the name of our robot...an our moto.."Lying down the Card."

Go ACES!!