Team Names

[Cynette]

I just hope that whenever a team picking a name decides they like a particular, that they do a reasonable search to see if there is a team who already has this name. Since Rolling Thunder (1511) formed in 2005, there has been two other teams pick the same name, one in VA, and one in Canada.

(And then we can start the whole thread on picking an image - which I'm sure the bright pink shirted and bright green shirted and tie-dye shirted teams have wrestled with for years. We though we were reasonably safe with red camo and now there is two others of those as well. )

[Captain Slacker]

Originally Posted by Captain Slacker

Team Paragon got our name from the Dictionary.com word of the day just found that out actually....

**CORRECTION**
One of the original team members in 2002 or 2003 decided that "our team will be the best, the top, the Paragon of US First Robotics"

(It is now just FIRST but had started with the name US FIRST).

The other members decided that they liked his description of being the Paragon of the FIRST engineering world so the name stuck.

Sorry for the mis-information!

[Rick TYler]

Our VEX/FTC team has been the Exothermic Robotics Club since 2007. It was a name that came up spontaneously at a club meeting and was not popular. In 2008 the students tried to come up with something "better" and finally gave up. This year, the members of the team just accepted it and never talked about changing. After two successful trips to the VEX World Championships and two trips to Atlanta, our club name is at least somewhat known in both VEX and FTC and we would be crazy to change it.

So here's some unsolicited advice. Pick something you are at least lukewarm about. Stick with it. Never change it. The time and energy you spend establishing a "brand image" will be largely wasted if you change your nickname every year.

[S.P.A.M.er 17]

Don't forget to spend time thinking up cheers for you team name. Also a cool logo to go along with your name. While images don't help teams win competitions, it makes them a lot more fun. I couldn't imagine going to competition and not hearing, "oink-oink boom", "what timea is it? KRUNCH TIME, or "when i say think, you say Pink!" (exploding bacon, Krunch, and pink team receptively.) Spam's is as simple as spelling out our name.

[Vermeulen]

You could also try something with a pun, like The Zip Tie-tans.

[HannahF]

I agree with most of the other posts that say to find a good name you should be original, but I also believe that the name should relate back to your teams story.

Don't forget that sometimes a team names can come about in weird ways. In 2000, team 433 was called MINT (mounties interested in new technologies) because our highschool is Mount St. Joseph Academey. That year, because of some wiring problems, the robot caught on fire during a competition. The girls on the team at the time decided that the next year, the team would rise from the ashes (literally) of our rookie season like a phoenix. We have been known as the Firebirds ever since

So don't be afriad to change your name after your rookie season. Just make sure when you do decided on your name, own it, with your spirit and T-shirts because a team name is just a name, however a "team" is a representation of the spirit and personality of a group of individuals who are proud to be -insert team name hear-

[kjolana1124]

Originally Posted by blayde5

Dynamite, Dynamo, something to do with dynamite so you can use this cheer:

Our team is what - DYNAMITE
Our team is what - DYNAMITE
Our team is tick, tick, tick, tick BOOM - DYNAMITE

and as far as I know, Team Dynamite has not been taken by an FRC team yet.

Our robot was named Dynamite in 2007. We used similar cheers. But that's a fun name. You could do stuff with TNT by AC/DC and Yosemite Sam or pretty much any cartoon with Acme. There's something there.

[Josh Fox]

Originally Posted by kjolana1124

You could do stuff with TNT by AC/DC

I think Team 280 gets dibs on that.

[thelittlesister]

The LuNaTeCs used an acronym (Learning Under Nurturing Adults Teaching Engineering Concepts and Skills)!

[Gary Dillard]

If you want to have other teams cheer for you all day long at competition, name your team "Robot Coming Through".

[Noah Booth]

i offer torque robotics, twisted robots for twisted people or mediocre robotics

[ChristopherSD]

Originally Posted by Josh Fox

I think Team 280 gets dibs on that.

Team 280 plays an AC/DC song before they play, why doesn't RUSH play a Rush song?

[jeanlee411]

I suggest you look at all the teams' names (hint: use thebluealliance.net) so you don't duplicate another team too closely. There are too many teams with "eagle" in the name, for example. It can get confusing.

And don't forget the importance of team colors. My team picked two colors not associated with either one of our two rival schools.

[afowl]

Pick something that's not too wordy (unless it's an acronym) that has a lot of stories behind it. For example my team, Team Mercury was named after NASA's Mercury missions but the word mercury has so many different things to link up to that you can play around with it, especially for robot names.

[panther83]

Washington Community High School in Washington, IL is expecting to be a FRC robotics team for next years season and we are trying to decide on a team name. Our school mascot is the Panther and we are orange and black for school colors. Any suggestions would be accepted, except tornado names... too soon.