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.