TEAM DUCT TAPE

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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 [...]

 
Florida FTC State Championship

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

  Team Duct Tape is very grateful for the support and encouragement of the Golf Car Depot, of Land O’ Lakes, which has purchased new team shirts for TDT members.  Thank you very, very much! 
Thank you, too, to Anna Claire Lambers for creating the great new TDT super duck, and to Ashley Nyman designing the [...]

 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 [...]