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[ 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!
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 [...]
Read about the Florida State Championship in the Tampa Bay Business Journal!
All that hard work and the long hours paid off! Team Duct Tape earned the Inspire Award and captained the Winning Alliance, taking it to a four match, edge of your seat final alliance play. It was touch and go at the beginning, starting with balky computers that fought Bluetooth and nail, and ended with our very grateful finish on a [...]
On January 9, teams competed at the Science Center of Pinellas’ Bot Challenge FTC Qualifying competition. Congratulations to teams Minotaur and Smoke and Mirrors for their Winning Alliance Award, scoring, in the third match, an impressive 485 points! The rest of the results are as follows:
Winning Alliance
1369 (Alliance Captain) Minotaur
2868 Smoke and Mirrors
Finalist Alliance
506 [...]
[ 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 [...]
A mentor from FTC Team 450 Children of the Swamp, shares hopes for more autonomous programs in the upcoming Port Orange RobotFest competition, on December 12, and a little code for a hoped for dance-off. Check it out at the FL FTC Forum:
http://flftc.forumotion.com/robotc-f11/my-goal-is-everyone-moves-in-autonomous-t103.htm
Hot Shot! Game Results
Winning Alliance
3045 (Alliance Captain) Built And Dangerous (B.A.D.)
1902 Exploding Bacon
Finalist Alliance
1369 (Alliance Captain) Minotaur
3837 Force Applied
Judged Awards
Inspire Award - 1902 Exploding Bacon
Rockwell Collins Innovate Award - 3045 Built And Dangerous (B.A.D.)
PTC Design Award - 2845 Team Duct Tape
Think Award - 1369 Minotaur
Connect Award - 506 Pandara
Motivate Award - 409 [...]
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