TEAM DUCT TAPE

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 [...]

Too good not to share! An NXT robotic Rubik’s Cube solver.  Instructions for making your own are at the site. Thanks to the NXT enthusiast who sent it along!

[ February 12, 2010; ] Team Duct Tape will be volunteering at the first ever TEDx Tampa Bay event this coming Friday.  TEDx is a local, self-organized version of the well known TED Talks program, bringing people together at a regional level to share  share ideas worth spreading. This is a great opportunity for TDT students to hear some leading thinkers from [...]

[ February 6, 2010; ] The train’s running a bit slow but we’re still on track for a good showing at this coming Saturday’s Middleton High School Last Shot Qualifying Competition.  More than a dozen teams will compete in this final qualifying event before the Feb. 27 State Championship .at the University of South Florida.

This is our last opportunity to [...]

Working on shooter
There was a good balance of work and play at this weekend’s meeting, thanks in large
Cheesecake Break!
part to a team member family’s donation of cheesecake to our snack collection. Fueled by the rich creamy dessert, team members made significant progress on finishing up their rebuild, but hit some snags again, which they hope [...]

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Some great videos have made their way to You Tube from tournaments and championships around the country.  Here are just a few:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlMU9xYFrYU

http://www.youtube.com/user/RobostingerZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvxQ4NbS17k
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BBC35577B07E795A&search_query=FTC+robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBBOBxFHD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xdh-NTW4Mw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQL2_M4mVow

Great minds at play!

[ December 21, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] A couple of Team Duct Tape members will be joining FLL team Brick Buddies on the CBS Studio 10 TV morning show, at 10 a.m. Monday morning, for their weekly segment on the Science Center of Pinellas . This week, the segment looks at the Science Center’s upcoming FTC qualifying tournament, the  Science Center Bot [...]