TEAM DUCT TAPE

A visit from Umbrella Guy and Mr. Dan, of Raytheon
Well, you win some, you lose some, and along the way, you have some fun! 
Neither our luck nor our skill held in the face of strong competition from other World Championship teams, but we definitely had some fun, and we’re very happy to report that our Winning [...]

Team Duct Tape and Force Applied at Middleton HHS Competition
We’re delighted to report that Alonso High School’s FTC Team 3837, Force Applied, has won a lottery spot to the
FTC State Championship Winning Alliance
FTC World Championship!  We’re really glad to be able to share the World Championship experience with our entire Winning Alliance teams the Florida State [...]

TDT members had fun demonstrating their robot with Smoke and Mirrors and Minotaur at the FRC Regional this afternoon.  We burned out a servo and spent a while with it upon on the table, repairing it, but it’s always fun to just drive and collect balls and shoot them, even if they don’t always go [...]

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!

On January 9, teams competed at the Science Center of Pinellas’ Bot Challenge FTC Qualifying competition. Congratulations to teams Minotaur and Smoke and Mirrors for their Winning Alliance Award, scoring, in the third match, an impressive 485 points!  The rest of the results are as follows:

Winning Alliance

1369 (Alliance Captain) Minotaur
2868 Smoke and Mirrors

Finalist Alliance

506 [...]

Hot Shot! Game Results

Winning Alliance

3045 (Alliance Captain) Built And Dangerous (B.A.D.)
1902 Exploding Bacon

Finalist Alliance

1369 (Alliance Captain) Minotaur
3837 Force Applied

Judged Awards

Inspire Award - 1902 Exploding Bacon
Rockwell Collins Innovate Award - 3045 Built And Dangerous (B.A.D.)
PTC Design Award - 2845 Team Duct Tape
Think Award - 1369 Minotaur
Connect Award - 506 Pandara
Motivate Award - 409 [...]

TDT at last season's HHS Qualifying Competition
Join Team Duct Tape on Saturday, November 14, as we compete in the state and the nation’s first FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament! Last year we were the first Inspire Award winners in the country.  Can we do it again?  We’ll try!  At the very least, we plan on [...]