Team Names

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by ThatHubrexGuy

Here's my input: The team names that sound most like professional engineering companies are the best. Take for example my team: Alpine Robotics. If I were doing a job interview and I said, "Oh yeah, I worked for Alpine Robotics for 3 years", the interviewer would think I had a legit job at an engineering company. As opposed to (and I really don't mean to offend this team because I love them very much) Thunderchickens or something similiar. "I worked for thunderchickens for 3 years". "...What?"

Try to make up something professional sounding. Include 'Robotics' or 'Tech' in the name. That's my advice.

I disagree. I can't tell you how (no offense to anyone) boring and cliche it is to add robo-, -botics, robotics, tech, techno-, cyber-... etc to your team name. Everyone at the competitions already knows you're a robotics team, and once you say "Hi, I'm part of [Team Name]. We build robots," everyone else understands too. (Quick thread derail: You don't say you "worked for" your team. You say you worked on or were part of... I don't care how formal your team is, its still just a robotics team. Its not a business and its not a job.)

Just be fun. Find something you can play with and make sure it fits your team. Also, if you pick a name and if you find out that you don't like it, you can change it the next year (but changing your name too much is a bad idea as you having a harder time establishing a reputation).

[ThatHubrexGuy]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

I disagree. I can't tell you how (no offense to anyone) boring and cliche it is to add robo-, -botics, robotics, tech, techno-, cyber-... etc to your team name. Everyone at the competitions already knows you're a robotics team, and once you say "Hi, I'm part of [Team Name]. We build robots," everyone else understands too. (Quick thread derail: You don't say you "worked for" your team. You say you worked on or were part of... I don't care how formal your team is, its still just a robotics team. Its not a business and its not a job.)

Meh, that's true in some cases. Adding those prefixes/suffixes can make it sound both cliche AND unprofessional in some cases. I guess it's all a matter of personal opinion and how we approach being on a Robotics team. I am very proud to be a part of my team (As is everyone else with their respective teams, I assume) and I feel that a professional sounding team name really adds to that.

[Enigma's puzzle]

Originally Posted by ThatHubrexGuy

Meh, that's true in some cases. Adding those prefixes/suffixes can make it sound both cliche AND unprofessional in some cases. I guess it's all a matter of personal opinion and how we approach being on a Robotics team. I am very proud to be a part of my team (As is everyone else with their respective teams, I assume) and I feel that a professional sounding team name really adds to that.

Maybe going to the extremes is the way to do it. Either as a professional team name, a wacky name, a fun name, a clever name, or a team acronym. As long as your team is presenting a unified and single name, I think you will be fine recognized.