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Inspire Award Winners!

Team members’hard work and unified presence,on the field and off,earned them the Inspire Award at Middleton Madness this past weekend,and a spot at the FTC State Championship at Embry Riddle in Daytona in February! It was touch and go with the robot sometimes,in what is definitely a challenging game. In the [...] [...]

Congrats,Thanks &Enjoy the Pictures!

Team Duct Tape would like to extend hearty congratulations and best wishes to Team Minotaur #1369,the Florida FTC State Championship Inspire Award winners,and Spontaneous Combustion,team 3123 (Alliance Captain),Pandara #506 and Serious Business #3736,all members of the Winning Alliance,as they ready for the FTC World Championship in St. Louis in [...] [...]

Connect &Finalist Alliance Awards,&Autonomous History!

Double Balance in Autonomous!  We’ll start with the funny part –in our third Finalist Alliance match,our robot went head to head (literally!) with team 3123 robot’s in a bid to balance on the blue bridge. Our robots met on the blue end,since our robot overshoots the middle a bit and then backs up and [...] [...]

We’re Here!

The El Caribe in Daytona Beach welcomed us and companion teams with a nice sign and a little practice area,not to mention a spectacular view from our nice rooms. The El Caribe was kind enough to extend special price offers to FTC teams attending the State Championship. Thanks,El Caribe!  We got off to a great start,[...] [...]

Florida FTC State Championship Here We Come!

[ February 12,2011;]  Team Duct Tape is headed to State today,for early check in and inspections,before a full day of competitionon Saturday . It’s going to be an exciting event,with a field of 30 great competitors.  Our Engineering Notebook is updated,  the robot’s tweaked and tightened,the autonomous programs are finished (more or less),the buttons [...] [...]

Thank you Shurtech Brands Duck Tape!

 Shurtech Brands has come through again for Team Duct Tape,with the gift of a shipment of multicolored,bright,shiny and beautiful Duck Tape!  Team members and their artsy craftsy family members are looking forward to some innovative Duck Tape fun in the next few days,and hopefully we’ll have a veritable vinyl treasure trove of [...] [...]

Big Robots,Big Awards!

TDT with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department Bomb Disposal robot Wow! What a day!  What a game!  We were delighted to come out of the competition with both the PTC Design Award and the Inspire Award. We made it into the Elimination Matches,but not far into them! It’s a tough,and rough and tumble game.  But [...] [...]

TDT on ABC

[ March 14,2010;10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Team Duct Tape is joining team 2868,Smoke and Mirrors,our FIRST World Championship partners,for an ABC Action News spot following up on a State Championship piece Smoke and Mirrors was featured in a couple of weeks ago.  We’re both proud of the fact that the two top teams in the state this season hail from [...] [...]