Team Duct Tape members and volunteers are available for interviews,FIRST outreach visits and robot demonstrations. You can learn more about our achievements and efforts on our About page and our Community Involvement page. Team Duct Tape is a consistently high achieving FIRST Tech Challenge team,with Florida FTC State Championship awards each season since our founding in 2008. In 2010,we earned a spot in the FIRST World Championship in Atlanta,GA .
Our 2009-10 Season Awards:
- Finalist Alliance Award –Florida State Championship - February 2011
- Connect Award –Florida State Championship -February 2011
- Winning Alliance Award –Seminole High School Techtacular,January 2011
- PTC Design Award –Seminole High School Techtacular,January 2011
- Inspire Award –Middleton Madness,December 2010
- PTC Design Award –Middleton Madness,December 2010
Team Duct Tape has been featured in:
- Land O’Lakes Patch:Team Duct Tape Heads to State Championship - Feb. 11,2011
- Fox 13 Good Day Show - June 4,2010
- Pasco Tribune:Aiming to Inspire
- ABC Action News (WFTS):Robot Kids Take on World
- NBC News Channel 8 (WFLA):Two Area Robotics Teams in World Competition
- Studio 10 Morning Show:Lego-riffic Robots!
- Tampa Tribune:Kids Revved up for Robotics
- Tampa Tribune:Youths Build Camarderie Through Lego Competition
- McCormick Stevenson Newsletter
- WMNF 88.5 Community Radio
- Tampa Tribune:Headed to Championship
- Tampa Tribune:Turned on by Robots
- Robotics Technology
Press Releases:
- Team Duct Tape at PTC/USERS World Event,Orlando,June 7 &8,2010 (PDF)
- Team Duct Tape at coolTECH June 4,2010 (PDF)
- Post-World Championship Update,April 27,2010 (PDF)
- The Breakfast Nook Hosts Team Duct Tape Benefit Dinner,Wed. March 31,at 6pm (PDF)
- FTC Team Duct Tape Earns Spot in World Championship in Atlanta in April –Help Them Get There! (PDF)
- FTC Team Duct Tape Competing at Florida FTC State Championship –Feb. 27,2010 (PDF)
- FTC Team Duct Tape at Hillsborough High School RoboMania –Nov. 14,2009 (DOC)
- FIRST LEGO League Mini-Tournament –July 6,2009 (DOC)
- PTC USERS World Event –June 7-9,2009 (DOC)
