TEAM DUCT TAPE

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 [...]

Below, TDT members enjoy a proud moment with Winning Alliance partners, team 3837, Force Applied. Force Applied was a force to be reckoned with and a great and gracious alliance partner.

Winning Alliance of TDT and Force Applied
TDT members really pulled together at the Middleton Last Shot event,  employing  great teamwork at all levels,  and making some [...]

[ 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 [...]

Working on shooter
There was a good balance of work and play at this weekend’s meeting, thanks in large
Cheesecake Break!
part to a team member family’s donation of cheesecake to our snack collection. Fueled by the rich creamy dessert, team members made significant progress on finishing up their rebuild, but hit some snags again, which they hope [...]

Our 3rd Law of Robotics: Every correction requires an equal and opposite re-correction!
At least that’s what it seems like sometimes. Nearing the home stretch on robot improvements, team members found some of their improvements necessitate other changes, which they hope to complete on Monday, when they utilize a school holiday for more build time.
When [...]

We made a lot of progress on our robot redesign at our last meeting.  Everyone’s
Wiring and Fitting
contributed something to the robot,which is coming together nicely.  We also welcomed a new team member — yet another Chris!  Chris 3.0 brings a background in Vex robotics to Team Duct Tape and an easy warmth and friendliness [...]

All Hands on Deck
TDT members managed to get in a few meetings over the holidays to work on some
Happy with redesign
robot redesign ideas, incorporating knowledge gleaned from visits with Paul Markun at Tampa Technik and with USF Racing Team members.  There’s still a lot of work to do,  but the redesign is looking sharp and [...]