How did your team pick its name??

[Mike Soukup]

When we started in 1996 a student had the idea of joining the names of our two schools' mascots to form our team name: Wheeling Wildcats and Rolling Meadows Mustangs.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by BURGDEW
Corps= We are a team or a corps

Well, kinda. Corps = corporation... and we chose to use that cause we needed a synonym for team. And N.E.W. Apple Corps just sounds cool!

Then of course there's our robot's nme - TOBOR.... Every year TOBOR gets a new roman numeral Next year, it'll be TOBOR VI (wow, that looks weird!!)

- Katie

[jon]

Before this year, our team was just Project Future, but when OHS and GHS joined this year, we became an 'alliance'. Osecola schools + alliance = Osceola Alliance. I hate the name, it's boring.

[George1902]

i love telling this story =-]

it was the fall of '97... our first meeting. we had a huge brainstorming session on possible names. we tried combining the mascots (Tigers and Bulldogs). Ti-Dogs was suggested. i suggested Bulgers (say it out loud... it's funny, i promise). lots of other lame names were thrown out there. finally someone threw out the idea of making an acronym of the two schools. South Fork And Martin County or S.A.M. then an engineer from our sponsor said "what about Pratt & Whitney? they sould be in there, too." then someone in the back of the room called out "S.P.A.M." smiles spread through the room. we voted and that name killed the other ideas.

so we became S.P.A.M. -- South Fork High School, Pratt & Whitney, And Martin County High School

did i mention that i love telling that story?

George
S.P.A.M.
Team 180

[DUCKIE]

We got the "Miracle Workerz" from the DuPont "Miracles of Science" advertisements. And MOE our robot is an acronym for Miracle Of Engineering. We change our robot's name every year, but it keeps MOE.

2000- MOE [now called big MOE]
2001- lil' MOE
2002- MOEhawk

Even our uppet [my creation, with help] has a name... Giant MOE

-ducky

[Rob Colatutto]

i think my team was named Aftershock because it was either that or woodchucks when the team was made 4 years ago...because no one was very creative back then. we like the name now, so we keep it

[Madison]

Originally posted by Nataku
i think my team was named Aftershock because it was either that or woodchucks when the team was made 4 years ago...because no one was very creative back then. we like the name now, so we keep it

We didn't want to be the Flaming Arrows like everything else, so we just picked ideas out of thin air and voted on it

Originally posted by nwagers
Well, the only monsters we have on our team are the sleep-deprived. Our team started the year before I was able to. I was told that the idea behind the Mach came from a commercial for the Gillette Mach III Razors. With Visteon as our sponsor and "V" rhyming with "3", they decided on "Mach V". We stuck with this for 2 years and then changed it to "Mach Vee" because too many people mispronounced it. I personally think that Mach V is better... oh well

When it was "Mach V" i thought the V was roman numeral number 5 so I thought your team name was Mach 5..makes sense

[Michael Murphy]

Our team name comes from our school mascot-Trojans, and the old name for our sponsors, Johnson & Johnson Professional.
T+J+J=TJ²



...and now you know the rest of the story.

[DanLevin247]

'da bears










self explanitory for the most part.





we are from Berkley High School, the Berkley Bears to be specific. . . just watch SNL.

[Rob Colatutto]

Originally posted by Michael Krass


We didn't want to be the Flaming Arrows like everything else, so we just picked ideas out of thin air and voted on it

very glad that were not the flaming arrows. and something happened and school got in trouble or something with indians, so now everything is the sachem arrows, they aren't flaming anymore, heh

[DaBruteForceGuy]

Michael Krass:

We didn't want to be the Flaming Arrows like everything else, so we just picked ideas out of thin air and voted on it

We used the same method when it came to picking our team motto... (Dred the Tred)

[Ian W.]

err steve...

our motto isn't 'Dread the Tread'. hell, we didn't even know we'd have a tread on the robot . looking in the booklet thingy, our motto is:

'We're in CHARGE! Get ready for the ride!'

that's quoted exactly out of the booklet, and yes, the word CHARGE is in caps for our offical motto .

[Todd Derbyshire]

Is it true that there is another TJ team in FIRST?! Does anybody have a FIRST booklet to verify this...?

[Ian W.]

i see the TechnoJays (# 94), but that's the only thing close to another TJ team. i may have missed one though, since it's late and i'm tired.