TEAM DUCT TAPE

Check out U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, driving Skunkworks FRC robot during a visit to Aviation High School in DesMoines.   It was a strained visit, as Race to the Top funds are on the line, but Duncan said he was impressed by Aviation High School and “ would like to see a hundred more schools [...]

FIRST Robotics episode of the Education for Innovation podcast, the first podcast dedicated exclusively to understanding how and why students study technology and engineering K-12. This episode is hosted by Dave Janosz and features guest Randy Schaeffer. 

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 [...]

[ March 13, 2010; 11:00 am; ] TDT will be running FTC game demos with other area FTC teams Saturday morning, at the Florida FRC Regional being held at the UCF Arena in Orlando.  We’re looking forward playing for fun and informing others about FTC, and hope to see friends, new and old, there!

Attention FRC and FTC teams!
PTC has listened to FIRST teams and heard that you need more live training!
PTC has scheduled 3 LIVE WEBCASTS for FIRST teams!
1. Overview of New Robotics Curriculum for FIRST Teams: Geared to FTC teams, but would be helpful to all FIRST teams!
Friday, December 18th [...]

[ September 26, 2009; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_272" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="TDT Members at LIFE Fest 2008"][/caption]

Team Duct Tape will be representing FIRST Tech Challenge at Learning is for Everyone’s annual LIFE Fest Celebration of Learning conference, on Saturday, Sept. 26, at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL.   This year, Learning is for Everyone has a room dedicated to FIRST robotics, that [...]

One of our FLL campers, hard at work
Success without Limits!
In Engineers of the Future,  the latest issue of Oprah magazine takes a look at some all female FIRST teams, in FLL,  FTC,  and FRC, who are transforming traditional views of women in engineering and technology fields.  Check out the Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies, the FemBots [...]

A couple of Team Duct Tape members joined Hillsborough High School’s FRC Team Hydra #2425 at this weekend’s FRC Regional at the University of Central Florida.  You can read about the event in the Orlando Sentinel (Mr. (and Ms.) Roboto take the stage as robotics regional comes to UCF Arena) and watch via live webcast [...]