BEDFORD EXPRESS

The Bedford Express is a high school FIRST FRC Robotics team located in Temperance, Michigan, USA. Many people ask us why we are called Bedford Express as it doesn't correlate with the town's name or the school's mascot. We use "Bedford" because our school district is situated in the township of Bedford. There are several small villages/towns that make up district, but we all share the same junior and senior high schools. The second part of our name, Express, was chosen when the team was founded in 2003. The high school mascot was, and still is, the "Kicking Mule". FRC teams normally use a fun twist on their home school's mascot to associate their robotic's team to, but the "Mule" just didn't sound very high tech- we had other ideas. Our first coach for the team was a graduate of Purdue University and thus loved the mascot "Boiler Makers', but we didn't want to just usurp Purdue's namesake so the express train theme was adopted to give a nod to our coach's history. An express train is..