TEAM DUCT TAPE

Identify the marshmallow in your project!

Enjoy! We did!

A visit from Umbrella Guy and Mr. Dan, of Raytheon
Well, you win some, you lose some, and along the way, you have some fun! 
Neither our luck nor our skill held in the face of strong competition from other World Championship teams, but we definitely had some fun, and we’re very happy to report that our Winning [...]

Listening to Dean Kamen during opening ceremonies
The day started off some great networking with other teams, and with some pretty unpromising practice runs,
Conferring with alliance partners
 where nothing seemed to go right.  Some solid teamwork got things back on track though, and we were in good shape by Opening Ceremonies.
Speakers included Dr. Woody Flowers and Dean Kamen [...]

Thank you, Mr. Markun, for our magnificent cart!
 We started off the day in St. Pete, at Tampa Technik, picking up our finished cart, which is a thing of shiny beauty! Then headed back to Odessa for a scrimmage date with Alonso High School’s Force Applied and team Smoke and Mirrors , for a shared practice session before we [...]

FIRST Robotics episode of the Education for Innovation podcast, the first podcast dedicated exclusively to understanding how and why students study technology and engineering K-12. This episode is hosted by Dave Janosz and features guest Randy Schaeffer. 

TDT members with Sunlake Media Specialist, Melodie Oleson
Team Duct Tape members had a fun and busy day yesterday, spending a couple of hours at Sunlake High School in Land O’ Lakes, where they introduced a couple of dozen students there to FIRST robotics, most for the first time. A number of students tried their [...]

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 [...]