We told you about Duck Brand gaffers tape scholarship contest a few weeks ago in a posting on one of our other blogs. This contest offered scholarships to high school students who designed prom wear from duct tape. Duck Brand duct tape has announced the winners of its “Stuck At The Prom” scholarship contest. Click […]
Amy Winter, a librarian in Mentor, OH, is running a summer activities program where she shows kids how to use duct tape to make craft items. Using duct tape to make handy items like wallets and book covers is not really new, but the name of Ms. Winter’s program certainly is. She calls it “Ductivities”. […]
“Some Assembly Required” at engineering.com, one of our favorite “do it yourself” web sites, shows you how to make your own hovercraft, one with enough power to actually move you over the ground. As you might have guessed, it will require a lot of duct tape. click here to watch a “how to” video. […]
Not so long ago, achieving the title of Miss America was about as good as it got for American girls. Not anymore. Teresa Scanlan, the reigning Miss America, and the youngest in 90 years, is ready to compete for the title she really wants. Miss Duct Tape! Scanlan heads to Ohio for the 8th Annual […]
The new documentary “Blaze Foley Duct Tape Messiah” is scheduled to debut in Asbury Park, NJ on June 27. Foley, a renowned Texas songwriter earned the nickname “Duct Tape Messiah” because of his love of decorating his clothing, all the way down to his boot tips, with colored duct tape. You can learn more about […]
The Cary News of Cary, NC quotes the mayor of a neighboring town, Morrisville, NC, saying that the Mayor’s approach to balancing the budget is “with duct tape and Band Aids”. Apparently Mayor Jackie Holcombe is not aware that duct tape prices are up almost 10% since the beginning of the year. Tapenews.com is your […]
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It’s time for the summer cardboard boat races in Des Moines, IA and if this year is like races in years past, the team with the best taping job is likely to cross the finish line first. The Des Moines races are part of the Great Cardboard Boat Regatta, founded in 1974 and there are […]
Mike Raczak, the principal of May Watts Elementary School in Naperville, IL, allowed students to duct tape him to the wall as an end of year fund raiser. Students used eight rolls of duct tape to stick principal Raczak to the gym wall as part of the schools end of year Citizenship Celebration. The Naperville […]
Taking to the street to build a Rubiks cube as big as a New York City studio apartment, these college students created a cube from duct tape and cardboard that looks amazingly like the original. You can read the whole story and see more pictures here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news […]