TEAM DUCT TAPE

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 [...]

Team Duct Tape Celebrates Fun and Friendship after the Championship
Congratulations to Inspire Award winner, Exploding Bacon and captain of the Winning Alliance, Team Hydra!  We’re sorry we’re not going to Atlanta with you, but we’ll be cheering you all the way and keeping our fingers crossed for you in April!
We came that close, among the [...]

Our autonomous program came *that* close to working! We’ll get it next time. Congrats to our great builders, programmers and drivers — you made the competition fun and exciting!

The Tampa Tribune featured Team Duct Tape today, in a story titled “Turned On By Robots.” Reporter Courtney Pastor did a great job of capturing both the spirit of FIRST and of Team Duct Tape, and we’re glad all our great supporters, like Tampa Technik, FWCS-ASME, RDesign and Learning is for Everyone got the [...]

Team Duct Tape went on a 24 hour build roll, fueled by pizza, and burgers and baked beans, made by our own Chef Joel!
Team members, who decided on team roles the previous week (cooking was not among those roles but has now been officially added), worked on controller programming, machining and fitting parts, and trying [...]

FTC Team 2845 joined East Lake High School’s FRC Team Krunch and FLL Team Mu at Learning is for Everyone’s LIFE Fest 2008 Home and Alternative Learner’s Conference at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL on Saturday Sept. 20, for a full day of FIRST demos and outreach.
Over 300 people attended LIFE Fest, learning [...]

Team Duct Tape enjoyed learning about the new season this past weekend. Here’s how it works:
(Read complete game details here: http://www.usfirst.org/community/ftc/content.aspx?id=962)

The Game:
FIRST Face Off!, the 2008 FIRST Tech Challenge game, is played on a 12’x12’ field. Two alliances of two teams each compete. Matches consist of a thirty second autonomous period [...]

As the Kick-off approaches, and just one day before the competition kits ship, we want to publicly reflect on the Team 2845 mission and goals we set for ourselves at our first meeting:

Team 2845s Coach, mentors and parents promise to Team 2845:

We will abide by the core values that we expect [...]