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!

All Together Now!
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
Team Duct Tape Team
TDT members celebrated their sweet success with an abundance of good eats, on Saturday, including a cake declaring “Rip it! Stick it! Done! Atlanta Here We Come!” (which gave the cake decorator [...]

TDT accepts Connect Award
Months of hard work, improving our robot after each competition, working on perfecting design ideas, meeting with mentors, developing strong programming, and great teamwork and communications paid off at the FTC Florida State Championship yesterday, when Team Duct Tape earned the Connect Award, ranked 1st in the Qualification matches in a field [...]

2009 FL State Championship
Thought others might enjoy and possibly benefit from recommendations TDT members have been given, to help make the most of their Florida State Championship experience:
1) Be familiar with the day’s schedule. Visit http://www.flfirst.org/FloridaChampionship2009.shtml for details.
2) Arrive on time and plan to stay the whole day, regardless of whether you’re in the final matches or not.  [...]

Too good not to share! An NXT robotic Rubik’s Cube solver.  Instructions for making your own are at the site. Thanks to the NXT enthusiast who sent it along!

Team Duct Tape members had a great time hosting a table during Inventors Weekend at the Renaissance Festival.   As with last year, we drew a good crowd, had fun informating about FIRST robotics, and enjoyed the food and entertainment.  The Bay Area Renaissance Festival remains one of the most successful and surprising far reaching of [...]

[ 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 [...]

Our diverse group of team members are often active outside of their Team Duct Tape experience with a variety of projects and interests.  Two of our programmers carry their love of code into realms beyond robotics . Check out their websites at Chris’s Programs and Projects and Levitank 2D and see great young minds at work.
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