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 | Jan 18, 2017 | MakerCon, Makers Festival, Radio
Hello everybody. My name is Jon Rubin and I’m the Emergency Coordinator for Hillsborough County’s ARES/RACES program. I’ve been a guest blogger a few times over the last several years, and I’m honored to have been asked to do it again. For those of you that...
by tmw2010 | Apr 13, 2016 | Entrepreneurship, Gaming, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers Festival, Makerspace, Robotics, STEM, Young Makers
Gulf Coast MakerCon 2016, wrapped up Saturday, April 9, as our biggest and most successful event yet. The whole idea of the event is to create an opportunity to network and share skills, crafts, ideas, and innovations born and raised in our Florida Gulf Coast...
by tmw2010 | Apr 8, 2016 | Entrepreneurship, MakerCon, Makers Festival, Makerspace
We’ve got several great networking and resource organizations joining us this year, all evidence of the growing community of Makers spanning both sides of our Bays, from Tampa to Sarasota. SeedRegion1 is one of them. Kyle Nurminen, founder of SeedRegion1, is...
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...