How did your team pick its name??

[Chris Hibner]

The names of a lot of cities around Metro Detroit have nothing to do with the city. For instance, TRW is in Farmington Hills, yet there are really NO hills in Farmington Hills.

HOWEVER, Walled Lake is the exception to this rule. There is actually a very nice lake with the town of Walled Lake at the north end. We thought it would be funny to do a theme based on the mythical monsters that inhibit so many lakes around the world like the Loch Ness Monster, or "Champ" the monster of Lake Champlain. Therefore, we created the myth of "The Walled Lake Monster". We actually used to nickname the robot "Wally" (like they call the Loch Ness Monster "Nessie"), but some of the students didn't like that so we stopped.