{"id":339214,"date":"2026-07-14T02:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339214\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:45:32","slug":"longtime-tampa-youth-robotics-team-hosts-first-ever-summer-camp-fundraiser-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339214\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Tampa youth robotics team hosts first-ever summer camp fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

Team Duct Tape’s camp in the University Area hopefully inspires the next generation of engineers.<\/p>\n

Team members taught campers skills like 3D modeling, printing and problem-solving.<\/p>\n

The interactive camp also serves as a critical fundraiser for the team’s upcoming 19th competitive season building custom robots.<\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. – Team Duct Tape, a community-based youth robotics team, hosted its first-ever summer camp to spark a passion for engineering.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tampa youth robotics camp<\/p>\n

What we know<\/p>\n

Team Duct Tape<\/a>, a local community-based youth robotics team entering its 19th year, is sharing its passion with the community through its inaugural summer camp.<\/p>\n

“I just thought of it as a great way to give a piece of what we do to the community and really pull them in,” 17-year-old Kaz Collins said.<\/p>\n

The camp teaches participants a variety of skills required to construct a functioning robot, including 3D modeling and printing, distinguishing between motors and servos, and engaging in hands-on trial and error.<\/p>\n

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The backstory<\/p>\n

Team Duct Tape competes as a FIRST Tech Challenge team, a middle and high-school-level STEM education program where students work with adult mentors to design, build, and program robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams.<\/p>\n

Every year, the youth team builds a brand-new robot to compete across the state. The team’s home base is at AMRoC Fab Lab<\/a> in the University Mall<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Engineering skills taking shape<\/p>\n

What they’re saying<\/p>\n

The teenage team members emphasize that robotics is heavily centered around problem-solving and perseverance.<\/p>\n

“Very satisfying whenever it finally works, because it never works the first time,” 17-year-old Daniel Fellerhoff said.<\/p>\n

Other team members find fulfillment in watching their creations come to life.<\/p>\n

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“I just think it’s really fun to get to like make something, see how it doesn’t work and fix it,” 13-year-old Emily Logan said.<\/p>\n

Logan noted that she hopes camp participants “can learn from this experience that they can do things like this.”<\/p>\n

“I just love the idea of being able to just create something and move on its own. That’s the best way I can put it into words,” 15-year-old Austin Varney said.<\/p>\n

Varney explained that after doing robotics, “You can like move a problem around in your head once you do something like this.”<\/p>\n

Tampa robotics fundraising goals<\/p>\n

What you can do<\/p>\n

The inaugural camp also serves as a fundraiser to the upcoming competition season. The team is actively looking for new mentors, corporate sponsors, and new members to join their ranks for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

The information in this story was gathered through interviews with participants in Team Duct Tape’s summer camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Team Duct Tape’s camp in the University Area hopefully inspires the next generation of engineers. Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[60167,139453,139454,40760,139452,139451,78883,135,137,136,32533,139455],"class_list":["post-339214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-camp","tag-camp-participants","tag-challenge-team","tag-duct-tape","tag-inaugural-camp","tag-robotics-team","tag-summer-camp","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-team-members","tag-youth-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}