Wearing You Schools Colors Benefits

[EricH]

330 wore white or gray, black lettering for many years. In 2003, they switched to blue and yellow. The school's colors are blue and white. Close enough! (Then, the FLL teams started using blue and yellow...) Then again, it'd be hard to get more support from the school. Robotics is currently the only "official" "sport".

[ZakuAce]

We got our team name and colors based on our school. All the sports teams are the Lasers, and thats cool name, so we chose Lasers for our team name.

The best way to get school support is to have your school come with you! I don't know what the rules are at other schools, but we will be having about 80 students from our school come to the Wisconsin Regional on Friday. Each of them will get a shirt with our school colors (Blue and Gold), plus parents and team members, we will have close to if not more than 100 people cheering on our team.

Also, our school announcements are partially student run (we broadcast it via CCTV and I set up the slides and stuff for meetings and events) so I was able to get a promo video out for our robotics team to encourage people to come.

[RIT_FIRST_LH]

Originally Posted by ZakuAce

We got our team name and colors based on our school. All the sports teams are the Lasers, and thats cool name, so we chose Lasers for our team name.

The best way to get school support is to have your school come with you! I don't know what the rules are at other schools, but we will be having about 80 students from our school come to the Wisconsin Regional on Friday. Each of them will get a shirt with our school colors (Blue and Gold), plus parents and team members, we will have close to if not more than 100 people cheering on our team.

Also, our school announcements are partially student run (we broadcast it via CCTV and I set up the slides and stuff for meetings and events) so I was able to get a promo video out for our robotics team to encourage people to come.

Lasers sound like a pretty cool name for a high school sports team.

[DarkFlame145]

T-Rx would have a real hard time using our school's colors because we are made up of 4 schools. One having Purple and White, then 2nd having Purple, black, and gold, the other having Marron and white, then the last (my school) having Blue and White. But we work in the shop and based out of the purple and white school. Plus i don't think T-Rx would look good with purple and white (the most common colors the schools have).

[ErikSR71]

I agree that making your teams connection to your school more apparent will help. My team is named Eagle Engineering becasue an eagle is our school mascot, and our team shirts are extremely similar to our school uniform. Participation in school events (club day, open house, etc.) will probably also help get some support from the school.

[1t5h1e1o]

When 1511 began, we had a pretty easy time choosing colors. Yes- we did adapt the red, black and white of Penfield High School, but we also took those colors and used red, black and white camoflauge to tie it back to our sponsor Harris RF who makes radios for the military. Ironically enough, their company logo is also red, black, and white. With our colors, we fit in with the rest of the school, but at the same time we stand out and make it so that people can't help asking about our camo and FIRST.

[Cooley744]

financial support, probably not. more support in general, probably!

[Herodotus]

The Foley in Foley Freeze comes from our school name, but we have been using blue and silver as our colors ever since the name switch. It goes more along with our whole ice theme, and I don't think it is a particularly big deal that we don't use the black and gold of Bishop Foley. It also let's us stand out when our school allows us to wear sport, club, or team clothing.

But yes, I can certainly see the benefits to using your school colors as well. I suppose just I like the creativity and identity you can build by branching out a bit.