by tmw2010 | Dec 19, 2013 | DIY, Entrepreneurship, Fairs, Festivals, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, inventors, Makers Festival, Science, Training, Young Makers
Take advantage of our Early Bird ticket sales for Gulf Coast MakerCon, and get admission for the full weekend at half the rate of a one day pass, paid the day of, at the gate! Early Bird tickets will be on sale now through Feb. 28th. Interested in being a Maker? Click...
by tmw2010 | Nov 26, 2013 | DIY, Entrepreneurship, Fairs, Festivals, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, inventors, Makers Festival, Science, Young Makers
Learning is for Everyone (LI4E.org) hosted the area’s first ever Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire in 2012. In 2013, our event nearly doubled in size, drawing more than 500 attendees. For 2014, LI4E is dialing up our annual DIY Celebration of the Inventive Spirit with...
by tmw2010 | Nov 2, 2013 | DIY, Science, Training
As development of the new Learning is for Everyone (LI4E) Community Innovation Center gets underway at the John F. Germany Library in downtown Tampa, some early projects are getting underway, staring with a Robot Hack team. If you want to join in the fun, come out...
by tmw2010 | Sep 6, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, inventors, Science
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” -Thomas A. Edison You can find that wonderful quote on the homepage of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame website. You didn’t know there was a Florida Inventors Hall of Fame? We...
by tmw2010 | Jul 29, 2013 | DIY, Entrepreneurship, Fairs, Festivals, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, inventors, Makers Festival, Science, Young Makers
The Tampa Bay Business Journal ran a piece earlier this month titled, “Tampa tech industry is healthy, but local inventors are needed.” Clearly TBBJ hasn’t been to one of our Maker Fairs, but more to the heart of the matter, TBBJ says what’s...
by tmw2010 | Jul 14, 2013 | Contests, DIY, Entrepreneurship, inventors, Science
A couple of years ago the America Competes Reauthorization Act was approved granting federal agencies broad authority to host contests to spur innovation. In How Contests Spur Innovation, Inventors Daily reported, at the time, that this signature event was critical to...
