TEAM DUCT TAPE

Below, TDT members enjoy a proud moment with Winning Alliance partners, team 3837, Force Applied. Force Applied was a force to be reckoned with and a great and gracious alliance partner.

Winning Alliance of TDT and Force Applied
TDT members really pulled together at the Middleton Last Shot event,  employing  great teamwork at all levels,  and making some [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

To all FRC and FTC teams:

Let PTC help guide your robot design to success. We offer multiple resources that will help you better understand PTC software and how to use it to your advantage.  We understand that having relevant, easy-to-use training material is critical for teams to adopt and successfully utilize our software and, most [...]

Brainstorming session
TDT members brainstormed robot build and game strategy ideas yesterday, looking at the problems posed by the new Hot Shot! game and solutions for solving them. It’s a challenging game, but team members believe they’re up to the task.
We looked at team roles,  and set out a basic project time line.  New members have
Looking [...]

Team Duct Tape is deeply grateful to PTC for their recent donation to the team. We’re looking forward to employing Pro/ENGINEER in this season’s design process and we appreciate the monetary donation to help defray our community based team’s expenses.  Thank you, PTC!

FTC Poster Boys
It was a great three days of acronyms, fun and learning! Team Duct Tape spent June 7-9 at the PTC/USERS 2009 World Event, running exhibition games with teams Exploding Bacon, Hydra, Rogue Robotics, Domino Effect , Minotaur, and Mechancial Flightless Waterfowl, attending hands on workshops about Pro/ENGINEER, and informing lots and lots of [...]

[ June 7, 2009 to June 9, 2009. ]

Team Duct Tape joins FTC teams Domino Effect (#409), Rogue Robotics (#2800) and Exploding Bacon (109) June 7th – 9th at the PTC/USER World Event, at the Rosen Shingle Creek hotel in Orlando.

We’ll be at the FIRST pavilion there, demonstrating [...]