TEAM DUCT TAPE

Thank you, Mr. Markun, for our magnificent cart!
 We started off the day in St. Pete, at Tampa Technik, picking up our finished cart, which is a thing of shiny beauty! Then headed back to Odessa for a scrimmage date with Alonso High School’s Force Applied and team Smoke and Mirrors , for a shared practice session before we [...]

Working as One

Super Cart for the Super Cube

TDT mentor and engineering guru, Paul Markun, of Tampa Technik, is making a gift of a customized pit cart to Team Duct  Tape, for those long hauls between the pit and the competition field at the Georgia Dome, and TDT members went over today for some equipment fitting and [...]

Working with Paul Markun and Jeff Tawney, of AquaCal

A couple of TDT members enjoyed visiting with Paul Markun, of Tampa Technik, earlier this week, where they received some good guidance on hoped for improvements to their robot.  Visiting with Mr. Markun is always instructive and productive! His Gracious Professionalism is always in evidence, and he [...]

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TDT members are heading out to visit our friendand mentor, Paul Markun, at Tampa Technik today. He’s donating some materials to the team, looking over the current robot design with us, and we’ll be looking at some design ideas for a new cart.  [...]

TDT hard at work
TDT members went to work this weekend, incorporating design changes they decided to implement after hearing some useful feedback from Paul Markun at Tampa Technik, and from Madison, at the USF Racing Team.  It’s a good thing our next competition is a couple of months away, because our robot is looking a [...]

Mentor Paul Markun checks out our robot
Thanksgiving is a great time to reflect on all the great people who support and encourage Team Duct Tape members, individually and as a team.  Today, a couple of TDT members visited Paul Markun at his Tampa Technik machine shop in St. Petersburg.   We were treated to a look [...]

Post Competition Celebration
TDT members enjoyed reflecting about last weekend’s qualifying competition and our PTC Design Award win, over cake and refreshments at Saturday’s meeting.  We discussed what worked:

teamwork,
team committment,
a great interview,
a pretty good Engineering notebook,
a sturdy robot with a sizeable hopper;

And what didn’t:

an unreliable collection system,
a slow shooter.

We’ll be weighing in with mentors in coming [...]

Team Duct Tape had a full and fun day at FTCs first qualifying event of the year on Saturday, at Hillsborough High School’s Robomania, bringing home the PTC Design Award. The PTC Design Award ” recognizes design elements of the robot that are both functional and
aesthetic.  All successful robots have innovative design aspects
however the [...]