TEAM DUCT TAPE

[ March 13, 2010; 11:00 am; ] TDT will be running FTC game demos with other area FTC teams Saturday morning, at the Florida FRC Regional being held at the UCF Arena in Orlando.  We’re looking forward playing for fun and informing others about FTC, and hope to see friends, new and old, there!

[ February 21, 2010; ] [caption id="attachment_1402" align="alignleft" width="432" caption="Looking sharp and ready for state!"][/caption]

TDT members got all decked out in their great new team shirts today, and hunkered down for the start of crunch week, tweaking, cleaning, and making final improvements to their Super Cube before next Saturday’s Florida FTC State Championship.

Members also worked on our display for tomorrow’s Tampa Bay [...]

[ February 17, 2010; ] TDT is excited to be participating in the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Competition Demonstration conducted as part of the 2010 Engineers Week (eWeek) celebration at Lockheed Martin – Simulation, Training, and Support in Orlando, Fl.   We’ll be joining several other central FL FTC teams at the event, showcasing team achievements and demoing our robot.

We’re really looking [...]

[ February 12, 2010; ] Team Duct Tape will be volunteering at the first ever TEDx Tampa Bay event this coming Friday.  TEDx is a local, self-organized version of the well known TED Talks program, bringing people together at a regional level to share  share ideas worth spreading. This is a great opportunity for TDT students to hear some leading thinkers from [...]

[ February 6, 2010; ] The train’s running a bit slow but we’re still on track for a good showing at this coming Saturday’s Middleton High School Last Shot Qualifying Competition.  More than a dozen teams will compete in this final qualifying event before the Feb. 27 State Championship .at the University of South Florida.

This is our last opportunity to [...]

[ December 21, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] A couple of Team Duct Tape members will be joining FLL team Brick Buddies on the CBS Studio 10 TV morning show, at 10 a.m. Monday morning, for their weekly segment on the Science Center of Pinellas . This week, the segment looks at the Science Center’s upcoming FTC qualifying tournament, the  Science Center Bot [...]

[ December 3, 2009; 3:31 pm to 5:31 pm. ] TDT is heading over to visit the USF Racing Team Thursday, to get some mentoring insights from  Society of Automotive Engineers student members, who design, fabricate, and race Baja and Formula cars. Like FTC team members, USF Racing Team members “must function as a team to not only design, build, test, promote, and race [...]

[ October 24, 2009; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_286" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Team Duct Tape at 2008 TNT"][/caption]

And Team Duct Tape’s going to be there!

Hosted by East Lake High School’s FRC Team 79 Krunch and the University of South Florida College of Engineering, the 3rd annual Tempest ‘N Tampa off-season robotics event at the USF Sun Dome October 23 & 24 will feature [...]