Several students participating in the Robotics Club were taking Classical and Modern Physics at Guilford College, which introduced them to particle physics. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, everything is made of quarks and leptons; the leptons are particles such as electrons that do not combine with other particles, while the quarks are the six basic building blocks that make up everything. The Standard Model says that there are six ‘flavors’ of quarks: up, down, top, bottom, charm and strange.

As of now, we believe that there are two common types of quark groupings, mesons (a pair of a quark and an antiquark interacting to form an ‘elementary particle’) and baryons (a group of three quarks interacting with each other to form an ‘elementary particle’). Because of the different quarks available and the different energy states of the particles there are many possible combination of the quarks; but only one that contains three strange quarks: the Omega particle. The Omega particle is denoted with a capital Omega (Ω). While our team thought of names and logos, we could find no name as intriguing that had a good story behind it; therefore we began drawing logos for triple strange. Our logo, shown below, was the result of linking three capital Omegas about an equilateral triangle.