TEAM DUCT TAPE

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 [...]

Read about the Florida State Championship in the Tampa Bay Business Journal!

[ February 17, 2010; ] TDT is excited to be participating in the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Competition Demonstration conducted as part of the 2010 Engineers Week (eWeek) celebration at Lockheed Martin – Simulation, Training, and Support in Orlando, Fl.   We’ll be joining several other central FL FTC teams at the event, showcasing team achievements and demoing our robot.

We’re really looking [...]

 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 [...]

[ February 12, 2010; ] Team Duct Tape will be volunteering at the first ever TEDx Tampa Bay event this coming Friday.  TEDx is a local, self-organized version of the well known TED Talks program, bringing people together at a regional level to share  share ideas worth spreading. This is a great opportunity for TDT students to hear some leading thinkers from [...]

[ 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 [...]