by Terri Willingham | May 31, 2025 | Automotive, Electronics, Gulf Coast MakerCon, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, Makers, Makers Festival, Mechanics
Find Me Auto Help joins us this year – a program developed by SME automotive professional Pam Oakes a 35 year veteran of the automotive industry, having served across the years as an automotive applications engineer, instructor/course developer (for several...
by Terri Willingham | May 26, 2025 | Gulf Coast MakerCon, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Manufacturing, Mechanics, Robotics, Science, STEM, STEM Education
We’ve also got some amazing high tech Makers joining us at Gulf Coast MakerCon this year! SOFWERX is along time FCDI and AMRoC Fab Lab community partner, supporting youth STEM programs at AMRoC and throughout Tampa Bay. SOFWERX, not only serves a vital role in...
by Terri Willingham | May 4, 2025 | Education, Electronics, Gulf Coast MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Mechanics
We’ll have a lot of great partners sharing programs, resources and activities at Gulf Coast MakerCon 2025. One of them is eSmart Recycling, who will be hosting their ever popular “Kids Deconstruction Zone.” This isn’t your typical tech exhibit. The...
by Terri Willingham | May 26, 2024 | Education, Electronics, Gulf Coast MakerCon, Makers Festival, Manufacturing, Mechanics, Robotics, STEM Education
With our proximity to the University of South Florida, we get some great MakerCon volunteers, and also some awesome student group exhibitors. This year, we’re happy to welcome the USF Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) , which is active in...
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 tmw2010 | Apr 5, 2016 | Electronics, MakerCon, Makers Festival, Mechanics, Robotics, Science, STEM
Ever felt like tinkering but needed some inspiration? Always wanted to learn a bit more about electronics and computer science, but didn’t know where to start? Sarasota Maker and Entrepreneur, Joseph Long has just the thing for you: Hackerboxes! HackerBoxes is...