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iRobot has launched a new robotics education portal at http://ow.ly/pxSn . Two sections: Educational Resources and Cool Stuff, both take you to some pretty cool stuff!
The Educational Resources section serves  iRobot’s committment to “supporting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education in schools. By using robots, students have fun, teachers get to teach in new [...]

Watching the Kick Off video with FL teams at the Orange County Extension Service in Orlando
Team Duct Tape joined 11 other teams from around Florida, on Saturday, to watch the new season  FL FTC Live  Kick-off event that included an early look at the Hot Shot! game video, and an opportunity to examine the new [...]

Another new area FIRST LEGO League team, Brick Buddies, has come together in the Odessa area. Team Duct Tape will be providing mentoring assistance to this new team, as well as to FLL Team 3519 , which is also hosting Jr. FLL Team  23.
Congratulations to all our new area teams!  We’re really looking forward to [...]

Saw this tidbit on a National Instruments FIRST tweet - From the New York Times, the Most Lucrative College Majors all have math skills in common. The story includes a great list of the top fifteen engineering fields by pay (tops is “Petroleum Engineering”):
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Math majors don’t always get much respect on [...]

Since we’re all about NXTs these days, the Robotic Realm’s news of the new Mindstorms NXT 2.0 is particularly exciting. According to the Robotic Realm, the new kit includes 42 more pieces, a color sensor sensitive to different light intensities (no doubt the “new sensor” alluded to in the new FTC kit of parts list [...]

Week one FLL Camp Graduates
Our first week of FLL summer camp ended with a group of happy campers!  Students spent the last day of camp trying their hands and minds at solving some of last season’s FLL Climate Change challenges.   It was a good exercise in the importance of keeping things simple, as they explored [...]

In Carnegie Corporation: ‘Do school differently ,eSchool News looks at the Carnegie Corporation’s new report, “The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy,“  that advocates for changes in the way American schools and colleges deliver STEM education.
From eSchool News: “Specifically, the report calls for common standards in math and [...]

FTC Poster Boys
It was a great three days of acronyms, fun and learning! Team Duct Tape spent June 7-9 at the PTC/USERS 2009 World Event, running exhibition games with teams Exploding Bacon, Hydra, Rogue Robotics, Domino Effect , Minotaur, and Mechancial Flightless Waterfowl, attending hands on workshops about Pro/ENGINEER, and informing lots and lots of [...]