Our guiding philosophy,from the Team Duct Tape Handbook:
Our goal is to elevate character,teamwork,and academic and intellectual achievement above all else. We do not seek to win at all costs,but rather to give team members an enduring hands-on STEM experience that will serve them well into their futures. Putting character before competition has yielded a consistently high achieving team that reliably brings home trophies year after year,and is well regarded not just statewide but nationally.
Learn About Our Efforts In:
- Land O’ Lakes Patch:Team Duct Tape Heads to State Championship
- Pasco Tribune:Aiming to Inspire
- ABC Action News (WFTS):Robot Kids Take on World
- NBC News Channel 8 (WFLA):Two Area Robotics Teams in World Competition
- Studio 10 Morning Show:Lego-riffic Robots!
- Tampa Tribune:Kids Revved up for Robotics
- Tampa Tribune:Youths Build Camarderie Through Lego Competition
- McCormick Stevenson Newsletter
- WMNF 88.5 Community Radio
- Tampa Tribune:Headed to Championship
- Tampa Tribune:Turned on by Robots
Robotics Technology
Awards –Season III,2010-11
- Finalist Alliance Award –Florida State Championship - February 2011
- Connect Award –Florida State Championship -February 2011
- Winning Alliance Award –Seminole High School Techtacular,January 2011
- PTC Design Award –Seminole High School Techtacular,January 2011
- Inspire Award –Middleton Madness,December 2010
- PTC Design Award –Middleton Madness,December 2010
Awards –Season II,2009-10
- Winning Alliance Award –captains,Florida State Championship - Our high score:500 points,ranked 1st of 25 teams
- Connect Award –Florida State Championship
- Inspire Award –Middleton High School Last Shot tournament
- Winning Alliance Award –captains - Middleton High School Last Shot tournament
- PTC Design Award - HHS RoboMania
Awards –Rookie Season 2008-09
- Inspire Award –1st place award for best all-round team –1st qualifier,HHS Face Off! Break Down!
- Think Award –Best Engineering Notebook -2nd qualifier,Lakeland USF Polytechnic RoboBattle
- Winning Alliance Award –Elimination match winners,twice as captains –at both qualifiers
- Finalist Alliance Award –Finished in top six of 24 teams,Florida State Championship - Ranked 9th of 24 teams
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Team Duct Tape #2845 is a FIRST Tech Challenge ( FTC) community based robotics team from Odessa,FL.FIRST Tech Challenge is a a mid-level robotics competition for high-school students. The ultimate goal of FTC is to engage youth in discovering the excitement and rewards of science,technology,and engineering.
Team Duct Tape in its community based focus,is open to public,private and homeschooled youth from the Odessa area who otherwise might not have access to higher level math,science and technology programs.
The team is sponsored,in part,by the non-profit education resource organization,Learning is for Everyone,which believes that high quality STEM education should be accessible to all youth,and that all kids with an interest in math,science,and technology should have an opportunity to express and explore those interests. Just because their schools or communities don’t have special engineering programs,or robotics clubs doesn’t mean youth interests and curiosity should be thwarted or neglected.
LIFE Inc. seeks to bring high school level robotics as within reach as Scouting,and to make it as commonplace,accessible and fun as a pick up game of basketball. Visit our FTC Q&A page to learn more about FIRST. Visit Be Part of Team Duct Tape,if you’re interested in being part of our team. You can also download our Team Duct Tape Handbook (PDF) to learn more.
Visit our Sponsors page to learn about our community supporters.
