Team Names – How?

[gilachick]

My old team was the Gila Monsters and that name was decided through many days of hard work. We first chose a number of names based on the fact that we were from Arizona and wanted something that would associate us to our state. So after many ideas we decided on the Gila Monsters due to the fact that our sponsor was General Motors so we though that the name was perfect and it has been.
I am now on a rookie team started by alumni from the Gila Monsters. Our team name is C.R.U.S.H. which stands for constructing robots under severe heat. The name was proposed and liked and that is our name now.

[Hailfire]

My mom came up with our team name. Take a look at the picture above my sig to find out what it stands for.

[Mongoose]

Our name came from a bunch of biology nuts. They tried DNA on us, which was basically rejected by everyone. There were a couple of other "bland" suggestions, but those didn't carry too well. Finally, we decided on NRG because it has some relevance to what we're doing and it stands for Newport Robotics Group. Although it would be nice if we could change it to Newport Robotics Association. Think of what that would do.

[Ashley Weed]

ehh... our team originally began as the LITTLES, which stood for the schools that were on the team... which are now three different teams - 84, 222, 284

team 84 became SWATT the first year which stood for the school that brandched of from the LITTLES, and the schools that joined up in that area

the third year of our existence we became WATTNESS, and have been ever since.
W - Waverly, NY
A - Athens, PA
T - Troy, PA
T - Towanda, PA
NE - NorhtEast Bradford, PA
SS - School Systems

our Robot's name was originally the Charminator the year of the LITTLES, because the sponsor was Charmin.

The name evolved into Chuck from the Chuck Taylor All Star shoes. For the first 4 years of team 84, Chuck changed slightly with numbers..... Chuck, ChuckR2, Chuck Pi, Chuck IV. However, the fifth year, the Robot became just Chuck, and it is referred to as Chuck by others....... (within our team, we still give them varying 'number' names to identify them; Chuck the 5th; Chuck N Moose.
...... hmmmm???? wonder what this years 'identification' name will become... only time will tell!

[Martinez]

Originally Posted by Ashley Weed

ehh... our team originally began as the LITTLES, which stood for the schools that were on the team... which are now three different teams - 84, 222, 284

team 84 became SWATT the first year which stood for the school that brandched of from the LITTLES, and the schools that joined up in that area

the third year of our existence we became WATTNESS, and have been ever since.
W - Waverly, NY
A - Athens, PA
T - Troy, PA
T - Towanda, PA
NE - NorhtEast Bradford, PA
SS - School Systems

our Robot's name was originally the Charminator the year of the LITTLES, because the sponsor was Charmin.

The name evolved into Chuck from the Chuck Taylor All Star shoes. For the first 4 years of team 84, Chuck changed slightly with numbers..... Chuck, ChuckR2, Chuck Pi, Chuck IV. However, the fifth year, the Robot became just Chuck, and it is referred to as Chuck by others....... (within our team, we still give them varying 'number' names to identify them; Chuck the 5th; Chuck N Moose.
...... hmmmm???? wonder what this years 'identification' name will become... only time will tell!

I guess now we know! The name Wattness has come and gone as High Schools have dropped out, but the name Chuck always remains. Chuck X proudly took the field for our tenth season. The team name has become Chuck 84, seeing as our team number is 84.

There are three urban legends how Division by Zero (229) got its name.
1) In math, dividing by zero is impossible but taking the limit of such a number yields infinity hence a slogan: Infinite Possiblities.
2) One of the students didn't know you can't divid by zero, it became an in house joke and the name stuck.
3) The initial two seasons were a shaky start and the team had the potential of folding. Someone noted that when you divid by zero on a calculator it says ERROR, so the team may have been one big error.

Early seasons the name was Ice Warriors and Northern Styx (since Potsdam is located in the frozen waste lands of New York haha), but for what ever reason the team went with Division by Zero and had a very successful year. Just like brand recognition the name, logo, robot name followed by the Green and Gold colors have stayed so others would know who they are.

It may be extremely nerdy, but I really like this name. Very unique and sticks in my head. Had some fun robot names with it to: Undefined, Denominator, and Irrational.

[SpamDan@GaTech]

Originally posted by kmcclary

BTW... Do any of the teams ever dress or decorate themselves as some variant of their mascot for contests, or have their "furry suit" mascot come along to the Regionals?

My senior year in High School (2001), a friend brought a superman outfit to nationals as a mascot for SPAM. A friend and I traded off wearing it, because it gets really hot after a while. It was alot of fun though, and might help you get a spirit award. We also had SPAM capes made for everyone.

George already did a good job of explaining how SPAM came about, so I won't bother with that. However, I am now at Georgia Tech and we sponsor 2 teams.

Team 832 is Chimera, which is some mythical animal that is part Lion, Snake, and Goat, I think. Not a school mascot, but it works.

Team 1002 is the CircuitRunners. I don't think they even know where it came from. Maybe one of them will post and let you know.

That's my info, happy bot building everyone!

[DaveG702]

Our name has an unusual story. I joined the team in our second year and have only heard the story. Apparantly during our rookie year a local bagel store donated trash bags full of bagels to our team and our teacher christened our team/robot "bagel bytes".

[EmilyM]

My school, Harvard-Westlake, used to be two separate schools: Harvard School and Westlake School. Before they merged ten years ago, Harvard's mascot was the Saracen. When the two merged, the new mascot became the Wolverine. No one is particularly fond of the wolverine, so when we were choosing a name this year (it's our rookie year), we went back a decade and named ourselves The Saracens instead. Saracens are Muslim crusaders.

[BBFIRSTCHICK]

Well, our team name is "All Stars" at first it was going to be "Stars" which meant as a joke... "Surviving Team members After Ramtech "(#59....our old team we were on) then we had just added the "all " in front of it....We have not decided on this years name for the bot.... but the name of last years bot (Rebecca) was chosen from a Walmart by one of our Engineers

[pauluffel]

Yeah Dan, Team Chimera was just a random idea from someone, but it really fit our robot well as we tried to do everything last year. This year you need to get them to do something about flying insects, because Tech is the Yellow Jackets and Roswell is the Hornets.

This year the team I"ve started is titled Lotus Robotics, but we had fun trying to think up names. There were a few acronyms people were coming up with, but none of them fit well, so I discouraged them. There were a few pirate ideas thrown around (alot of people wanted to find out what "pirate" is in russian and have that as our name) and a few just stupid names, but a few days earlier when I was conceiving ideas, I come up with the name Lotus Robotics. It"s clean and simple, but it has enough mystical implications that I thought it would fit well. When we finally got a list together to vote on, I added Lotus Robotics to the list and explained it by saying "it's a cool name" and no one really seemed interested, but when it came to the vote, it won nearly unanimously. It"s rather unique too, as I can"t think of any other teams with even a vaguely eastern theme, so look out for revolutionary marketing techniques at the Peachtree Regional.

[2PI4Julia]

Well, since we ARE team 360, or 2PI in radians, it's the same as one revolution, so we are The Revolution (dang it's great to be a nerd, and its amazing that I learned more about Trig in robotics by our name and whatnot than I have in all my math classes!). Originally we were the Ranier Roboteers, since we're so close to Mt. Ranier, but we decided to change it for our 3rd year. So we are The Revolution.

And as for our robot, RainMaker, since we're from the Pacific Northwest, it seemed appropriate with the abundence of rain we get, and with all the reservations within the area, yeah, you get the point.

[Amanda Aldridge]

We have always been Team Hammond. Our robot name is The BEAST. BEAST stands for Beatty Engineered And Student Tweaked. It's an acronym that the students came up with 4(?) years ago, and it's stuck ever since.

[Kristina]

Our rookie year we were the blazing tomahawks or something like that because our school mascot was the Indians. Well I guess we've had political-correctness pressure so we decided to change our name our second year and pick something more memorable. Not hard, our school's name was Hart...many things can come off of that.

So we were thinking pacemakers, hart attack, hart condition, etc, etc but the guys thought doing the whole medical thing overboard like we were envisioning was too hokey.

After much much debate and arguing we happily decided on Hartburn because the guys liked fire and it gave the spirit team a lot to go off of.

[Amanda Morrison]

After several directionless meetings without a name, one team member stood up and yelled, "How about the Prank Monkeys?"

It's obviously so completely random that the kids loved it. It's actually a good name when it comes to promotion, etc.

Besides, it's a good rookie name - at least some people will remember us for it both on and off the field!

Amanda

p.s. - I forgot this. Our official motto is I.M.A.G.I.N.E.- Intelligent Minds And Great Innovations for a New Evolution.

[Harrison]

Last year we didn't name our bot (didnt really think of it)...

But our team name is pretty simple...

Mobotics - a combonation of Mowat (our school) and Robotics. Everything at my school is Mo-something.