I know! (Photos courtesy of Team Duct Tape photographer,Amanda) The first week of Team Duct Tape’s FLL Summer Camp is off to a great start,with a terrific young group of budding programmers and builders. THINK Day students jumped into their camp experience eagerly and enthusiastically. While a couple of students had a little Mindstorms [...] [...]
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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 [...] [...] Aaron C's Gear and Motor Assembly By golly,we’re getting it! Team Duct Tape and Berkeley Prep RoboBucs members enjoyed a second day of ProE expertise from McCormick-Stevenson engineers. Nat McCormick was especially helpful with his informative and enthusiastic guidance. Team members will continue to fine tune their knowledge of ProEngineer throughout the summer and hope to [...] [...] Team Duct Tape &Company,Berkely Prep FTC Team We made more progress understanding the assembly process in ProEngineer, this past weekend,with members’practice designs taking (recognizable!) shape. We enjoyed meeting up with Berkeley Prep coach Keith Walka and team member William,who gamely jumped in with us to wrestle with orientations and attaching parts. We [...] [...] [ May 28,2009 to May 29,2009. ] Team Duct Tape is grateful for McCormick Stevenson’s generous contribution of time and intellect in their mentoring guidance, aimed at teaching Team Duct Tape members how to properly utilize ProEngineer CAD software. Team Duct Tape is eager to learn how to implement CAD design in the new season,and team members hope to make use [...] [...] [ May 23,2009;] On Saturday,May 23,we’ll meet again to:* Explore component assembly further,via the Assembly tutorial and look at designs team members attempted and * Introduce the engineering drawing features of ProE And then we’ll plan for our McCormick-Stevenson visit next week,May 28 &29th,listing specific questions or thoughts students may have about [...] [...] [ May 16,2009;] This Saturday,May 16, Team Duct Tape is kicking off our ProEngineer education with a look at:ProE basics,using the Carnegie Mellon ProEngineer Introduction introducing how to access part files,manipulate displays,and orient parts;Windchill basics;and Introduction to Component Assembly The following week,we’ll Explore component assembly further;and Introduce the engineering drawing features of ProE We’ll be [...] [...] Dr. Paul Bresnan,coach of Lakeland’s FTC Team Mechanical Flightless Waterfowl,and just back from a volunteer stint at the 2008-9 FTC World Championship,alerted us to the results of FTC Team Unlimited’s FTC Futures Forum,held at the event on April 16. The intent of the forum was to discuss,“possible future enhancements for [...] [...] |  Our coffers are drained from our World Championship run. Your contributions will help us cover 2012-13 costs for registration,new tools and equipment,and tournament costs. All donations made through Learning is for Everyone are tax deductible as permitted by law. Please type "Team Duct Tape" in the comment section of your Network for Good donation. Thank you!  Visit Florida FTC on  | |||||
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