Team Names – How?

[Freddy Schurr]

EASTERN TEAM 204

WE ALWAYS ARE THE SAME, EASTERN VIKINGS. But every year we change our robot name. It is either done by the team or the sponsor that gives the most money. This year, a member parents company give us $2500, so the member came up with the name " SweetFEEET", everyone like it and that was our robot name. May that could help FIRST teams who have a hard time to figure our they robot name

[Scott Chambliss]

My team's name popped up at a meeting once because we are an inner-city school, and we thought that gangsters would be original. Its also ironic because we only had 2 people on our team who might be considered gangsters (yes, james and robert, I'm talking about you!). Eventually, it got changed to gangstas, but got mispelled on our shirt; ganstaz. The missing 'g' didn't stick, but the 'z' did.
Our robot was named Sir Gears-a-Lot at the first meeting, beause our school's mascot is the knight and we thought that we would be the robo-knights or something. When we actually named ourselves, we forgot that we had already sent in a robot name. Thus, when we came to regionals, we were the Grady Gearbox Gangstaz, with Sir Gears-a-Lot. Hmmm, doesn't quite fit, but nobody noticed...

[BandChick]

When we were just a rookie team (emo tear), there was one meeting where all we did was discuss names. We were almost "Team Neon," but ultimately the team decided on Team Mercury. A poll was run for a week on our team site to get all the students (and the rest of the community) to vote. After we picked Mercury, we decided that black and silver would be our colors. Silver, why that's obvious, of course! Mercury (the liquid) is in fact, silver. From there we decided that black matched nicely. Anyway, we went back and forth between the planet and the god and the element. I think we've ultimately settled for the god, at least this year.

So, yes, 1089 has a mascot! We do represent Mercury the Messenger, and our mascot is dressed in a silver toga. He is going to have a silver laurel and wear a black sash that reads "Mercury" on one side, and "1089" on the other. He will also at nationals, carry a Lightening bolt shaped staff as that is one of the things that our team is known for. That and wings! XD

[Timmyd]

H.O.M.E.R. Human Operated Mechanically Engineered Robot
dont know who started the name because it was over nine years ago.
I THINK???

[KORN_lover_2007]

Well, our team name has always been Panther Robotics, which is our school mascot. But our robot name for this year took a bit of time during the building. We decided that a ball shape would be a good device that can hold up tetras. We at first thought of using one of those ball-things used in toilets (sorry, I don't know what that is called), but we figured that would not be great for a nickname. So we had a small plastic bowling ball for a mini-bowling set that we thought could work. The holes in it looked like eyes and a nose. We also added two metal pieces sticking out the sides to keep the tetra more stable, which looked like arms. Remembering the lovable and funny clay-mation of Mr.Bill, we painted the the head to look like Mr.Bill. So, we got the name of our robot to be Mr.Bill.

[stinger]

Our team name is either the greybots or GRR. i forget which. greybots is a combination of our school mascot the greyhound and the word robot. GRR stands for Greyhound Revolutionary Robotics.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Wildstang is a contraction of the Wheeling WILDcats and the Rolling Meadows MuSTANGs. The first year sudents from the two schools decided on the name and the tie-dye team uniform. Hence a legend was born.

[Libby Ritchie]

Well, when we first started, we couldn't think of a name, so I came up with the team name "The Bee Bots". (our school mascot is a yellow jacket) After a year of my students making fun of me and telling me that it was not working, our athletic director made a suggestion to go with Full Metal Jackets. I loved it, it didn't sound so whimpy to the kids, so we changed! Andy Baker still loves to tease me about the "Bee Bots"!! I will never live that one down.

As far as how we name our robot, we allow the team captain from the previous year to name the robot. (the captain this year will name next year's robot) We have had co-captains the past two years, so one named the robot last year and the other did this year. They get suggestions from the rest of the team, but they go with the name they like the most. It's been fun.

[Daniel Morse]

Our team name "The Dirty Birds" is derived from the early days of our team (early-mid 90's). When we were first formed, the team consisted primarily of members of the football team. At that time, the football team had a bad reputation of playing very dirty, and since our school mascot is the blackbird, the football team earned the name "The Dirty Birds". This carried over to the robotics team and stuck. Despite the negative origin of the name, we are proud to be the Dirty Birds, and there are no longer negative connotations connected to the name. By the way, there was only one football player on our team this year (thats usually around max that choose to join).

[FourPenguins]

MORT (Mount Olive Robotics Team) is a bit self explanatory once you know what it stands for.
We don't often name our robots. They usually only get names in the post season, and usually they're just descriptors to tell them apart (the one w/ the wings, etc) Last year's robot's arm was known as the Saldefector, because it was an end-effector supervised by a mentor named Sal.
This year's robot was the first with a name. Just about everyone on the team is a Homestar Runner fan, and when someone proposed we call the 'bot the Rad Rad Robotank, it stuck. The original shooter had the RRRT stenciled on. 'Twas badass.

[Josh Murphy]

We got our name bsically by our school mascot, which is a Chief and Delphi is our founding partner so we called ourselves "Chief Delphi".

[Qbranch]

The name and number says it all.

2^10=1024=1kilobyte => kil-a-bytes

-Q

[skimoose]

How our team and robot names became "Gus".

Wow I can't believe no one from our team has posted this yet. For those of you who would like to read the LONG version of this story go here!

The short version is "Gus" is what was left of our original robot's name, which was either Augustus Roboticus Maximus or Spartigus (spelled wrong) Roboticus Maximus (depending on who you ask). Our rookie team name was the Tri-Town Duct Tape Bandits, since we were originally made up of students from Meriden, Rocky Hill, and Wolcott, CT.

Like nearly every rookie team, our robot was 18 pounds over weight. In the process of lightening the bot, the team had to resort to cutting up our 1/4" thick aluminum nameplate. First went Maximus, then went Roboticus, in desperation they began cutting up what was left, and finally made weight with "Gus" being all that was left of our nameplate.

Gus stuck as the robot's name and in 2000 we changed our team name to Gus since duct tape is a no-no in FIRST.

Lastly, when Wolcott left our team to form a sister team, team #1071, they honored the roots of our common history by taking the name "Max" which was culled from Maximus. Thanks Max!

[Meyerman]

Team name RoBBE Xtreme comes from Robotics Of Bound Brook, Ethicon and the team motto thing is we take robotics to the Xtreme soo you put the 2 together you get RoBBE Xtreme. in 1997 it was Crusin' Crusaders our school mascot is a Crusader, 1998 it was RoBBE's Roadrunners no clue how that came about lol, but from 1999 on its been RoBBE Xtreme.

[neilsonster]

Club Sandwich... our school is called Sandwich Secondary School. Yep! Get it? Club Sandwich, it's like the thing you order at a restaurant... but we're a CLUB of people.............................wow