All the FRC Teams That Ever Were

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Should have been Bridgewater, NJ.
I'll fix that.

Team Number: 153
Team Name: Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical & Somerset County Vocational & Technical Schools
Location: Bridgewater, NJ, US
Team Motto: TEARIN' IT UP & BURNIN' IT DOWN
Robot Name: Smokey
Rookie Year: 1997
Awards Won:
2000 NJ Best Offensive Round
1999 NJ Outstanding Defense
1999 NJ #1 Seed
Events Attended:
2001 National Championship
2001 J&J Mid-Atlantic Regional
2000 N1
2000 NJ
1999 N1
1999 NJ
1998 NJ
1997 NJ
Willing to Mentor: No
Willing to be mentee: No
Website: http://web.archive.org/web/200108060...153/index.html

153 was known as the Wombats for at least one of their years in FIRST; they were our "twin" team for a while when both 341 and 153 were sponsored by Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical. In fact, in 2002 when we were voting on team names, we very nearly selected the Wombats instead of Miss Daisy.

Every year at our off-season event, Ramp Riot, we reserve a spot for pre-rookies to compete with our practice robot; we use number 153 for this entry in honor of our old mentors. In years past, teams like 1712 and 2234 have competed as team 153.

[OZ_341]

Originally Posted by Jared341

153 was known as the Wombats for at least one of their years in FIRST; they were our "twin" team for a while when both 341 and 153 were sponsored by Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical. In fact, in 2002 when we were voting on team names, we very nearly selected the Wombats instead of Miss Daisy.

Every year at our off-season event, Ramp Riot, we reserve a spot for pre-rookies to compete with our practice robot; we use number 153 for this entry in honor of our old mentors. In years past, teams like 1712 and 2234 have competed as team 153.

A small correction. Team 153 was never known as the Wombats during a regular FRC season. Their robot name each year was "Smokey". Also team 153 was our "sister" team, not really a "twin" in the modern FRC understanding of the word. We would sometimes swap mentors around, but we always built independently from each other. 153 did most of their building out of a wonderful company called Universal Machine and we built at the local O-M facility in Springhouse, PA.

153 had some great kids, great machines and great mentors. We still miss them.

[Mark McLeod]

I just did a filter on *NASA* and got a count of 868 teams.
That's about a third of all FRC teams ever.

One of the advantages of using original team names.


Sponsor "owned" team numbers make it difficult to consistently track teams through the years, especially when primary sponsors themselves change names, e.g., NYNEX= Bell Atlantic.
Team 19 is an odd example of a team being associated with a sponsor not a school. In the FRC Team Database Team 19, Greenwich, CT, gets credit for a rookie year of 1994, although the school didn't actually have a team until 1998, and the sponsor, NYNEX, didn't have a team any closer than 70 miles.

Some schools do change names as well, but it's rare. Teams more often combine multiple schools or split off schools to form their own teams.