pic: Team 45 and their robot.

[Schnabel]

OK, so I was asked to explain what "Ham Tray" means. To make a VERY long story short, when Andy was in college, the term was used at meetings to prevent people from going into tangents and/or over explaining something. When this would happen, a person would raise their had, say "hamtray" and then the meeting would continue with what was next. So this year, Andy noticed that we would go into many different tangents with pointless discussions, so he introduced "hamtray" to us. Fast forward to the last meeting before ship, and we were deciding on what to call the robot. Someone began to go off on a tangent, so I called a "hamtray" to make the very long meeting hurry up. From that point, we decided to add it to the potential names on the board, and it ended up winning. So in other words, it is an inside joke.

P.S. As a team decision, you will have to wait for a while until some real specs and pics are posted. For some, this will come at St. Louis. For everyone else, it will be just a little bit after that. For now, treat this picture as a game hint! : )