Team Logos/Mascots

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by feliks_rosenber

Initially we chose this for political reasons...
Our team t-shirt has changed this season when we added pictures of the 3 abducted soldiers...
As a matter of fact, we decided to dedicate our team to the Habanim organization and together we call for their release...

Wow, this brings the selection of team colors and mascots to a whole new level. Thank you, Feliks, for sharing that.

And now back to the superficial... our team logo was tweaked after our first year, but has since remained the same. And after two years with the same shirt we added some extra details this year to make it distinctive for 2008 (umm, it actually says 2008 on it! ) But our trademark Red Camo will be around for a while! That was actually challenging this year, since we have been buying a large bolt of the cloth each year, and this year found it to be unavailable. But we've recycled old camo team pants (the pants are still available for sale) for our robots bumpers and other decor.

As for the mascot. We use our school's mascot, a bald eagle. If we ask nice, he sometimes comes to our competitions.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Cynette

Wow, this brings the selection of team colors and mascots to a whole new level. Thank you, Feliks, for sharing that.

And now back to the superficial... our team logo was tweaked after our first year, but has since remained the same. And after two years with the same shirt we added some extra details this year to make it distinctive for 2008 (umm, it actually says 2008 on it! ) But our trademark Red Camo will be around for a while! That was actually challenging this year, since we have been buying a large bolt of the cloth each year, and this year found it to be unavailable. But we've recycled old camo team pants (the pants are still available for sale) for our robots bumpers and other decor.

As for the mascot. We use our school's mascot, a bald eagle. If we ask nice, he sometimes comes to our competitions.

We use Wilson Magnet's Willie the Wildcat outfit with a team shirt but we haven't taken it to a competition in a few years because the kids say it smells.

[Meredith Novak]

We have a solid "brand" and it has served us well. Our blue shirts with "BOMB SQUAD" on the back are easily recognizable year after year. I like the feel that the new kids get of being on an establised team - it gives them confidence and pride. We had some rough years after losing our corporate sponsor and our solid team identity helped us keep going. It also makes it easier to use the same general designs every year. We encourage our students to design one new shirt each year and we wear that on the Thursdays at competitions. Our students are required to wear a blue hoodie over the "BOMB SQUAD" when we go out in public - there's nothing that will clear out a Burger King like seeing a bunch of excited folks in "BOMB SQUAD" shirts.

[catsylve]

Being a young team (this is our second year) we haven't really faced the problem of having to design a new logo. However, when our student artist designed our first logo, he designed several versions, which will allow us to put it on different colored shirts. That way we have the same logo which will be recognizable, but we can change the color of our shirts and banners. We tend to use one version for FTC and the inverted darker version for FRC.

Our team t-shirt has changed this season when we added pictures of the 3 abducted soldiers.

Talk about getting your team involved with the community! Takes it to a whole new level.