Team Names – How?

[Double X]

Our team name is Double X because we are an all girls team (two X chromosomes in girls...).

[santosh]

2003 DOT-Distance Over Time because we were a rookie year. It was an inspirational name
2004 Captain Caribeener- Our robot used a caribeener to hook onto the bar and well, pirates of teh Caribean was out that same time.
2005 Gnat- we had a holonomic drive train and we were really fast and we could have annoyed other robots like gnats do for people.
And our team name is the CircuitRunners. It was the only other suggested name besides Halo. I think we picked the better name.

[macurtis]

It's taken three years for this to catch on but I think 74 has finally landed on RoboDutch.

Robo (Robotic)
(Holland) Dutch

With there being four other robotics teams in the Holland Area, and our school teams are all the Holland Dutch, it's kinda hard to come up with something definitive.

[dmurdz]

Mechatronic (Mechanical)
Maniacs (Craziness)

The Mechatronic Maniacs
It can be a tounge twister though

[Qbranch]

1024 = 0x400 = 2^10 = 1 Kilobyte

and then that kind of morphed to 1 Kil-A-Byte

-Q

[Wayne C.]

Raider Robotix came from our school's team the "Raiders". I still dont know what a raider is but the mascot for the school is a tough looking eagle in a tight blue sweater. I thought "raiders" were bad birds that killed baby birds in the nest. So I guess we are stuck with a name for a sinister, nest robbing, coward raptor.

The line of Evil Machines was the incidental brainchild of Mark Leone. Since 2000 we always listen to the other teams for the best name for that season's robot. In 2003, when we had the original Evil Machine, we were in a furious scrambling, pushing match for the platform in the Stack Attack game. In that round our partner accidentally got in the way and we nearly tipped them over. Mark's announcing voice chimed out "thats one evil machine- they dont like anybody!!!".
From then on the name stuck and we have had 4 Evil Machines- 2 of which made it to National finalist.


So I guess team 25 is named for killer birds and sinister mechanics. I guess that beats "the fluffy bunnies"

WC

[Gabe]

604 was known as the Sillowhats for three years, from 2001 to 2003. In 2005 the current group of students got together and we decided to have a new name. After brainstorming a bit and not really agreeing on one name, a team member suggested Quicksilver, since San Jose has a long history of mercury mining (our school is only about 5 minutes from the Almaden Quicksilver mines). It was a great suggestion, and we all agreed.
Yet we wanted the name to be a little different, so we changed the spelling from "Quicksilver" to "Quixilver", which does look cooler when it's spelled out on out shirts and our robot. I think their is no better choice since not only does it sound good when you spell it out or say it, it also says a little about our team's history.
Go Quixilver!

[LPaton716]

People actually often ask where our name comes from. Our team comes from Housatonic Valley Regional HS (pronounced "Hoo sa tonic") nicknamed Housy (hoo see). We transformed that into Who'sC and thus we are the Who'sCTEKS.

After deciding on that name the question mark symbol seemed rather fitting. Our chemistry teacher can manipulate tye-dye so that it doesn't run too much and creates all of the team shirts.

This symbol has proved to be very marketable. And, it's fun to draw so I like it. Our other mascot is a frog because of the cartoon of a frog refusing to be swallowed by a stork. Hence our motto "Don't ever give up."

The robots...1st robot was Reggie 1 for Region One, our school district. Then Reggie 2 and 3 because no one changed it. But having three reggies was getting confusing so we continued the "who" theme with Housywhat'sit and Housywhere'sit.
And last year's Jeremiah after Jeremiah the bullfrog.

Next year's name is undecided but so far I vote for the Who'sizzit. (Who's is it)

[irishninja]

I know this doesn't have to do with robot names, but its a funny story about a geeky team naming themselves that my math teacher told me. He use to teach in Texas. Because of this, all the sports teams named themselves the Oilers. When he started a math team, the principle suggested the name of the Oilers so they would fit in with the rest of the school. My math teacher came back the next day with a different name, pronounced the same way. The Eulers.

True Story.

[double_check]

Well, my team has a fairly interesting that people can recognize from pop culture when they hear it. I'm from 692 or St. Francis High School. It's an all girls Catholic school and our team name is the Fembots. I'm not exactly sure who came up with it or why but I know we got it from Austin Powers. Our robots have had the names Camelot, Anklebiter, and the Precious. Camelot came about because it looked like a castle and one day I said someone said I dub thee Camelot and dubbed it with a pool noodle that was supposed to be used for bumpers. Anklebiter is from programming the robot so only motor would run and the robot would spin in circles trying to take out people's ankles during build season. The Precious is from Lord of the Rings obviously.

[JaneYoung]

This is a little long.
- The team's high school is LBJ High School and their school colors are purple and white. The school mascot is the jaguar.
- Austin has a colony of bats that nest under the Congress bridge, the Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). They are a seasonal tourist attraction due to their daily foraging migrations at sunset.
- Austin has a minor league hockey team, the Ice Bats, named in honor of these bats. This hockey team formed about the time our team was looking for a name.
When it came time to register the team for FIRST, the name for the team was slow in developing. Finally with deadline approaching, our teacher, Mr. Tony Bertucci, told the team that if they didn't come up with a name, he was going to name the team, The Robo Bats. The team didn't like that and came up with Purple Haze with 2 thoughts in mind. They thought it still worked with the school colors and they thought they knew something their teacher didn't. They figured he wouldn't have any idea who Jimi Hendrix was or know anything about Purple Haze and that it would be an inside joke. They got that part wrong but the name stuck. Every couple of years or so, we tie dye tees for the team and this year our bumpers were tie dyed.

[MChapman]

Alright...ACES High does seem a bit odd but this is our story behind that: When our team was just Windsor Locks kids the team was the Raiders after the WL mascot. But while at competitions all the students ever did was play cards. So when Suffield joined the team and they continued the playing cards tradition we changed our name to ACES High. Now our robots in past years have just been named either randomly or named with mentors names...however this year we kept with the card theme an Pokerface became the name of our robot...an our moto.."Lying down the Card."

Go ACES!!

[mandraque]

Also, our robot's name this year is "Furious George," named after everyone's favorite childhood primate, Curious George.

btw..my favorite chilhood primate is the little donkey kong. our robot name was letters and numbers for the year i think.....i hope that changes this year...

[Dave Hurt]

Well, with team 308, we're Walled Lake schools and TRW. Trying to make a play off the Lockness monster, one of our engineers came up with the Walled Lake Monster. Don't ask where Robostars came from... I don't remember

[EddieMcD]

121 is actually the Islanders (we live on an island, every sport team uses it), but with a lot of teams, the robot name is what sticks. So, we are commonly refered to as the Rhode Warriors. I can think of a few other teams this applies to as well.

I guess as long as a crowd remembers your name, it really doesn't matter.