TEAM DUCT TAPE

To the private donors who’ve been contributing via our Network for Good site, your contributions are deeply appreciated!  Every donation, of every size, is applied completely to FTC Team Duct Tape’s World Championship journey, and all donors will be kept regularly updated about the team’s progress through the rest of our season, and into the [...]

Team Duct Tape is happy to count The Breakfast Nook, of Land O’Lakes among our growing contingent of Team Duct Tape supporters.  Owned and operated by the family of one of our team members, who is also an aspiring restaraunteur himself, The Breakfast Nook hopes to soon be featuring a Team Duct Tape signature dish, of [...]

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 [...]

Team Duct Tape is deeply grateful for the generous contributions of TRAK Microwave and Raytheon NCS, towards costs for FIRST World Championship registration and accommodations expenses.  The logistics of getting a team of ten and their families to Atlanta for four days - a party of twenty-two so far- is challenging and the expense considerable. Thanks to TRAK Microwave and [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, that was the name of the FLL Qualifying Tournament we volunteered at on Saturday.  And it was great fun revisiting the FIRST LEGO League experience as helpers, spectators and supporters of the two great FLL teams we’re mentoring, Brick Buddies and TechnoForce, both of whom took home awards.
TechnoForce to the Rescue!
TDT members served [...]

FIRST LEGO League coach, Rich Berger, of the FLL Darth Panthers team, sent a reminder out to FLL teams and volunteers today, in preparation for this weekend’s FLL competition at USF Patel Charter school, being hosted by Darth Panthers.   Rich shared a link to an article by FLL operational partner Camille Schroeder.
Rich wrote, “We must [...]