Your Team's Logo

[Leeebowitz]

Our team name, the Warbots, is short for Warrior Robotics, named after our school mascot, the Deerfield Warriors. However, that is about it for similarities between our logo and our school.

We have a graphic design teacher at our school who loves the Warbots but is unable to mentor the team for the most part, so he makes the logo. Ours is relatively unique in that each year it slightly changes. Usually there is some form of flaming skull, mostly because it looks awesome, and the color scheme has stayed relatively consistent as well. However, each year the graphic design teacher makes a different logo, relating it in some way to that year's game or our robot. For instance, in 2008, our robot was named 'The Wabbit' because of its appearance and agile drive train. Thus, our logo that year was a Monty Python-esque rabbit on fire. Last year had a flaming skull with pieces of an orbit ball as a headband. This year, we had the same flaming skull with a soccer ball replacing the top of its head. I would attach a picture, but it's too large a file even as a jpg.

We are very grateful for this teacher's contribution to the team; each year our logo is awesome looking no matter how good or bad the team does.

[sircedric4]

After the team spent nearly the entire build season batting around team names with the requirements myself and fellow mentor gave them, we finally went with one I mentioned in passing. Our requirements were to have something which we could build a theme around, including a chant, cheap costume for teammates that would standout, pit and banner layout, and finally a logo. We decided on Prometheus because it hit all those requirements fairly easily since we stuck to the greek and fire theme, except that we were still logoless. (And we found some awesomely cheap flaming welding hats that went with the theme and use them every year from now on. Another advantage is its easy to spot my students in a crowd with their head gear)

As we were putting the cover on our electronic box for last year's robot it became obvious there would be a great place for an image and so we gave the lexan to the other mentor's kid to airbrush a flaming orbit ball on. (This was Lunacy as our first year) He started with a flaming orbit ball and thought it was ugly and instead did a flaming red ball with a killer grin. We all liked it so much we decided to carry it forward as our logo from then on. This year one of our students even went so far as to make a paper mache head for a mascot which turned out great. We added it to our t-shirts this year as well, and decided that we'd have our mascot play whatever game we were playing.

Since we were a looper bot from the get-go and were playing soccer, that is how our Chester robot name came about, and how the t-shirt mascot/logo ended up with bouncing a ball off his chest. :-)

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by kjolana1124

...When our sponsor switched over to UTC Chubb, we were named the Chubb Bots. Our theme was tye-dye then, I believe...Finally, we switched to UTC Fire and Security, which owns Chubb. From what I can deduce we voted on our name (maybe some people at UTCFS took part in the voting as well, can someone clarify this?).

In 2005, the season as the ChubbBots, there was a lack of coherent image/theme for the team overall, so people wanted to change that. We talked about things like the importance of branding and team decisions, ran a vote to come up with a new team name. UberBots was decided on. After that, we voted to decide on a theme that would be used throughout our existence. The theme that won was actually "Greek/Greek gods", but one member suggested the connection between "uber" and "super", and we revoted on a superman theme. It won, and soon thereafter we voted on a motto and started working on the logo we still have today. SPAM was definitely superman-themed before us, but we had little awareness outside of our own region at the time. Our first year as the UberBots was also our first year attending the Championships, and boy did we get confused everytime we spotted members of SPAM far away and then realized they belonged to another team as we approached.

[mayde]

I wasn't on the team our rookie year, but two of my best friends were.


The school held a competition in the art classes to see who could come up with the coolest design and the team voted on it, but in the end the one that was picked was designed by a girl named Ariel who was a senior on the team.

This year, to fit the game, the logo was altered to include a soccer ball, but we've stayed pretty close to the original design.

On our website is a moving animation of the logo; www.roboteknix.com

[xxjgdancexx]

I wasnt on the team during our rookie year but one of my friends (who is goth/scene) thought of "technomancer" from the word "necromancer" and then im not sure where the teal and black colors came from (but i must say that they are awesome together ). I think he came up with the logo too...but im not entirely sure

[keehun]

I asked one of my designer friends in California. He's a locally famous graffiti artist, but he is very good with photoshop and 3D effects.

I know, pretty unoriginal, but I really like the logo. :-) When I worked with him, I said something blocky, some sort of a face, and this what came about :-)



He gave it to me in a low resolution JPEG and vector file but I lost the vector file... I ended up redrawing and recoloring it last summer. The font used in there is Neutra Text from House Industries.

[EthanMiller]

We're the K Island Gears... Our logo is a gear with a superimposed lighthouse, as per http://1000islandsschools.org/clubs/...s/image002.jpg

It works.

[BX HANNAH]

When Bedford Express was first starting, we wanted something that we could tie into a lot of different themes and such. Our high school mascot (a mule) didnt work out so well for sayings our grandmas would be proud of lol. So we started exploring other ideas. Some parents suggested a train theme because we could have lots of visible logos (the yellow dot, the railroad crossing, and our X) and we could tie it in a lot. We started with "Engineers on Track" and have since applied the "on track" thing to anything you could think of! haha. We wanted to get our community "on track" as well as our other area FLL teams on track with our team. The colors came from our school color (Red and sometimes black) and the color of a railroad crossing sign (yellow, and sometimes black) So we have the red, yellow, and black Bedford Express! *makes arm X thing* And our train logo was drawn by an art student, we had a competition for a best design, and we got the awesome train we use today!

[JamesCH95]

One year, way back when, the robot was named "Grace Hopper" and her profile looked very similar to a grass hopper so a grasshopper logo was plastered over everything and it became a hit both on our team and on other teams who instantly recognized our robots and it stuck.

[V_Chip]

As most of you know, the Buzz Robotics logo is the classic smiley face. Let me iterate how this came about.

I was not around when our logo became associated with the team, however through the help of original members I have been able to uncover the story behind the Buzz.

In our rookie year (1996) our robot had a suction cup to aid in its playing of the current year's game (Hexagon Havoc). I am not entirely sure whether or not it was a mentor or student who chose to draw a smiley face on the suction cup, nonetheless it was a member of the team.

I was told that at a competition a newspaper photographer took a picture of Buzz 1996, smiley suction cup and all.

The picture was later sent us, and recognized and embraced as "Oh, that's cool".

Since then the smiley face has stuck with the team. (Hence the suction cup).

Just shows how a little doodling on the robot can lead to the creation of such a recognizable logo.

Below is a link to our site to view all of our bots. Especially the original, 1996.

http://www.buzzrobotics.org/theBuzzBots.htm

[J93Wagner]

1997: Team 93 was originally created as Team 107 (never got how the numbers changed... ) AKA A.N.T.S. or Appleton North Technology Students. Aren't we clever... although I have still to see the logo.

1998: The team number changed to 93, with another change to the name and probably the logo that year as well. The name was changed to be the N.E.W. Apple Corps. With a clever change to the FIRST logo, namely, replacing the circle with an apple... We got the basis for our logo, at least, thats what I think happened...

[Tetraman]

At Liverpool High School, every sport is the _____ Warriors. Fighting Warriors, Diving Warriors, Cheering Warriors and so on.

Robotics build season takes place during the harshest part of the Central New York winter, and Robotic Warriors just sounded way too generic. So apparently the team voted on Arctic Warriors and it was set. I did hear a rumor that there was a time when the team was going to change the name of the team a few years later, but it never was liked. Arctic Warriors is awesome.

[angelawence11]

Team 195 is forced to use the school-wide logo

[Durza16]

C.O.R.E.'s Logo was made by a student who was just messing around with circles during one of his classes. He really liked it, and made photoshop renders of it. He brought it to the team and we liked so...poof! That's our Logo.

Our name, Community Of Robotic Engineers, is because we are made up of our three area high schools. We shortened it to C.O.R.E. because it sounds alot cooler.

[Hawiian Cadder]

my team logo is in my signature, it came about because the original team all loved to ski, after the first season, they had a ton of extra money, so they rented a helicopter for a day and skied, i am told that this is the inspiration for the logo.