by Terri Willingham | May 4, 2023 | Art, DIY, Drones, Education, Electronics, Fairs, Festivals, Gaming, Gulf Coast MakerCon, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Makerspace, Robotics, Science, STEM
Hosted by our parent nonprofit, the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation in partnership with MOSI, AMRoC Fab Lab and Scoutlier, Gulf Coast MakerCon returns to in-person fun and learning on May 27, 2023. The Memorial Weekend event is FREE and open to the public!...
by Terri Willingham | Jul 19, 2021 | Gulf Coast MakerCon, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, inventors, MakerCon, Makers, Makerspace
The last couple of years have been quite a ride! After a fun and successful event in 2018, produced in partnership with St. Petersburg College-Seminole Campus and our friends at the Innovation Lab there, in 2019, we took a hiatus to open AMRoC Fab Lab in Uptown...
by Terri Willingham | Apr 6, 2016 | 3d printing, DIY, Education, Electronics, Gaming, inventors, Makers, Mentoring, Robotics, Science, STEM, Young Makers
Here at Gulf Coast MakerCon, we get excited about all of our makers… but we really get fired up about our amazing youth makers!! It is our pleasure to introduce you to a wonderful, intelligent and inspiring young man, Rocket Burns, who will be making his debut...
by Terri Willingham | Apr 5, 2016 | Art, DIY, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers Festival, steampunk, Upcycling
Ken and Diana Swallow are a husband and wife creative team who combine their artistic talents in Upcycled Studio. We first met them in 2013, when they came out to our then Mini Maker Faire, in Pasco. We’ve grown a lot since then, and so has their collection of...
by Terri Willingham | Mar 27, 2016 | Art, Gulf Coast MakerCon, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, Handcraft, MakerCon, Makers Festival
Returning to Gulf Coast MakerCon this year, is Tobi Weisbond, of Unique Rabbit. Tobi is a local artist living in New Port Richey with her husband. Her love affair with the visual arts began 60+ years ago in the basement studio of her Aunt. Over her lifetime she has...
