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Halloween Horrors –First Competition just two weeks away!

Duct Tape Zombie! TDT members have worked like the living dead (but with a lot more energy!) on their robot the last couple of days –  —trying to complete a robot design everyone feels will be competitive and successful.  TNT was an edifying experience that compelled team members to rework their initial design,after testing [...] [...]

Ready for PTC/USER World Event 2009

[ June 7,2009 to June 9,2009. ] [caption id="attachment_710" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Dusting off our robot for PTC USERS World Event"][/caption] Team Duct Tape joins FTC teams Domino Effect (#409),Rogue Robotics (#2800) and Exploding Bacon (109) June 7th – 9th at the PTC/USER World Event,at the Rosen Shingle Creek hotel in Orlando. We’ll be at the FIRST pavilion there,demonstrating [...] [...]

Congratulations Exploding Bacon and Team Hydra!

Team Duct Tape Celebrates Fun and Friendship after the Championship Congratulations to Inspire Award winner,Exploding Bacon and captain of the Winning Alliance,Team Hydra!  We’re sorry we’re not going to Atlanta with you,but we’ll be cheering you all the way and keeping our fingers crossed for you in April! We came that close,among the [...] [...]

FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship

[ April 15,2009 to April 17,2009. ] The FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship Event,  April 15-17,2009,  will be held in conjunction with the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship Event and the FIRST LEGO League World Festival,held at the Georgia Dome and Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta,Georgia.  The event will be a two-day culmination of the 2008 FTC season,bringing together [...] [...]

Ready for Florida FTC State Championship

Go Little Bot! Team Duct Tape is ready for a great weekend of fun and competition at the Florida FTC State Championship ,this Saturday,February 28,at the University of South Florida Campus Recreation Center. We’ve worked hard and spruced up our robot,cleaned up our interview,tidied our Engineers notebook,tweaked [...] [...]

Learning about ProE at McCormick-Stevenson Visit

Team Duct Tape members visited the McCormick Stevenson Corporation in Clearwater,FL this week,to learn more about practical applications of CAD design and engineering analysis. With the recent gift of accessibility to ProEngineer,Mathcad and other collaborative tools from PTC,it was a great opportunity to see how these tools are used in [...] [...]

Team Duct Tapes Meets FIRST President Paul Gudonis

“We get what we celebrate,”FIRST president Paul Gudonis said,quoting FIRST founder Dean Kamen,in his keynote speech at the 2009 NETA conference. And today,Team Duct had a chance to celebrate everything they love about FIRST as they represented FIRST Tech Challenge at the conference luncheon. Team Duct Tape was honored to meet [...] [...]

Team Duct Tape at Face Off! Break Down! Qualifying Competition in Tampa

Our autonomous program came *that* close to working! We’ll get it next time. Congrats to our great builders,programmers and drivers —you made the competition fun and exciting! [...]