Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; color: rgb(42, 42, 196); padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;">First name, Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting our cause. This donation greatly helps our mission. If you would like to contribute further to our cause, contact us to become a volunteer, or spread the word about our mission! Steven Willinghamsteve@ffcdi.org

<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"><a href="http://teamducttape.com/" target="_blank">Team Duct Tape</a> is a <a href="https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc" target="_blank">FIRST Tech Challenge</a> is an inclusive, accessible community-based youth robotics team, based at the <a href="http://amroctampabay.com/" target="_blank">Advanced Manufacturing &amp; Robotics Center (AMRoC) Fab Lab</a> in Tampa.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">FTC is 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. The robot kit is reusable from year to year and is programmed using in Java. With the help of coaches and mentors, students are required to develop strategies and build robots based on sound engineering principles. Awards are given for the competition and for community outreach, design, and other real-world accomplishments.  Students involved in our program get to:<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">*Design, build, and program robots<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">*Apply real-world math and science concepts<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">*Develop problem-solving, organizational, and team-building skills<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">*Compete and cooperate in alliances and tournaments<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">*Earn a place in the World Championship<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">*Qualify for over $100 million in college scholarships<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">Students in our community team are guided by the Curiosity Driven Learning guidelines set by founding organizers nearly 20 years ago.  Our goal is to elevate character, teamwork, and academic and intellectual achievement above all else. The team does 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.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">Donations help keep the team affordable and accessible for youth in the community, help fund competition registration fees, pay for parts and help with competition related travel expenses.  <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">Thank you for investing in team members' futures and supporting our next generation of science and technology leaders who are not only accomplished engineers and coders, but also people of character, grace and professionalism.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">                                                  ****************************************************************************<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%">Team Duct Tape is a program of and is supported by the nonprofit <a href="http://ffcdi.org/" target="_blank">Foundation for Community Driven Innovation</a> through your donations. 100% of donations at this page are applied to the team and are tax deductible as permitted by law.  <p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:590.065px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> <p 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REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.  The toll-free number is 1-800-HELP-FLA (435-7352), and the website is FDACS.gov.

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**Mission:** Team Duct Tape is a FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team based in Tampa, Florida, dedicated to providing an inclusive, community-based STEM education experience for middle and high school students. Their mission emphasizes character development, teamwork, and academic achievement over competition. They aim to equip students with hands-on experiences in engineering and technology, fostering future leaders in science and technology.

**Cause:** The organization focuses on promoting STEM education through robotics, encouraging students to design, build, and program robots while applying real-world math and science concepts.

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- **Community Outreach:** Engaging in community service and outreach to promote STEM education.
- **Mentorship Programs:** Working with adult mentors to guide students through the design and building processes.
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- **Impact Metrics:** The team emphasizes character development and academic achievement, with a history of winning trophies at competitions. They also provide access to over $100 million in college scholarships for participants.
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