TEAM DUCT TAPE

Winning Alliance

2845 (Alliance Captain) Team Duct Tape
2868 Smoke and Mirrors
3837 Force Applied

Finalist Alliance

3830 (Alliance Captain) SkyNet
1369 Minotaur
1902 Exploding Bacon

Judged Awards

Inspire Award - 2868 Smoke and Mirrors
Florida Coach of the Year - Eric Grajales, 1902 Exploding Bacon
Rockwell Collins Innovate Award - 348 Lightning
PTC Design Award - 1369 Minotaur
Think Award - 506 Pandara
Connect Award - 2845 Team [...]

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 [...]

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!

[ 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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 TDT members helped out at the first ever TEDx Tampa Bay event held at the Straz Performing Arts Center on Friday.   There were lots of great presentations.  The one by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, which he delivered via Skype after becoming trapped in Washington DC’s Snowmaggeden and unable to make the event in person, was very apropos.  He titled [...]

[ 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 [...]