by tmw2010 | Feb 1, 2018 | 3d printing, DIY, Drones, Education, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Makerspace, PInellas ComicCon, STEM
For the last five years, St. Petersburg College-Seminole campus has hosted Pinellas Comic & Maker Con, led by SPC’s Innovation Lab, or iLab. During that same period, Eureka! Factory has organized Gulf Coast Maker Con and both groups frequented, promoted...
by tmw2010 | May 4, 2017 | DIY, Drones, Education, Festivals, Gaming, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, PInellas ComicCon
First, thanks to everyone for their warmth and understanding about our need to cancel our April 8th event this year. Your patience as we’ve worked to reschedule Gulf Coast MakerCon has been deeply appreciated. In looking at our different options, and what would...
by tmw2010 | Apr 8, 2016 | Education, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, Scale Model, Young Makers
Brian Bombei, the founder of Coaster Modeling Enthusiasts of Florida, makes something big – really big: roller coaster models out of K’Nex! He told us a bit more about what he does and why he does it. _______________ I founded Coaster Modeling Enthusiasts...
by tmw2010 | Apr 7, 2016 | Education, Gardening, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Sustainability
We’re Making things indoors and out, this year, and planting the seeds of sustainability this year, with Loretta Buckner, owner and master gardener of We Grow from Here. We Grow From Here was founded as a non-profit in 2010 to create community gardens, and has...
by tmw2010 | Apr 6, 2016 | Education, Electronics, Entrepreneurship, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, Mechanics, Robotics, Science, Sponsors, STEM, Sustainability
Stretching across 23 counties, the Florida High Tech Corridor is “a technology rich region known as much for its legacy in aerospace as it is for its growing prominence in other high tech clusters of innovation such as Modeling and Simulation, Optics and...
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...
