Exhibitors & Activities
Our Gulf Coast MakerCon 2025 Exhibitors!
Each of the businesses and organizations listed below will share a variety of fun, interactive and engaging activities and displays at Gulf Coast MakerCon 2025 on May 31!
At left is our 2025 event agenda and map of exhibitors and special events and programs. Browse the list of exhibitors below to learn more about each of our great exhibitors and program partners! Click on the image to expand or download it.
2025 Special Events & Activities!
Combat @ MakerCon – Cohosted by Build Fight Fun, see 3 lb and under weight class robots duke it out!
The AMRoC Fab Lab Future Makers is a youth iniative of the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation.
Makers of Art & Literature
Bay to Bay Arts is a mobile fine art studio, and creative space. We provide fine art classes in mixed media arts, painting and photography .
Creative Cutout sells custom laser cut art and jewelry.
Brooks DeBartolo Collegiate High School National Art Honor Society
Magnolia Book Binding
Makers of Innovations
Meet inventor Wayne Rasanen, and learn about his innovative DecaTxt device and his inventive process.
Makers of Fun, Useful and Engaging Stuff
ICEBREAKER – Socially Awkward-less Games
The Forge is a Social Gaming Center, a dedicated space where gamers can come together to play their favorite video games.
Educational and Demo Exhibits
SOFWERX serves as an innovation platform for the USSOCOM by bringing the best of Government, Industry, Academia, and National Labs together to help solve challenging problems encountered by Special Operations Forces.
Inventors helping inventors move ideas forward!
The Clayworks Ceramics Studio at Starkey Ranch Library is a studio space for the community to learn about and engage in clay arts.
Black Unicorn Educationᵀᴹ is the go-to platform for informal learning resources about emerging technologies, featuring content that highlights perspectives of diverse communities.
Brooks DeBartolo Collegiate High School joins us to showcase their world class MATE ROV Underwater Robotics program!
Find Me Auto Help is a link between consumers and their car care budget.
The Caribbean American National Development Organization (CANDO) focuses on promoting and uniting diverse cultures and partnerships. At MakerCon, they’re showcasing their new community youth robotics program!
FIRST Robotics Competition team 5276, the Edgar Allan Ohms, is a high school robotics team based at AMRoC Fab Lab in Tampa.
The Middleton High School Robotics Club was established in 2004, and is dedicated to achieving excellence in all their endeavors.
FIRST Robotics Team 3627, also known as Jungle Robotics, was founded in Sarasota County in 2011. The team is currently hosted at Pineview School in Osprey, and is open to all high school students in Sarasota County.
FIRST Tech Challenge Team 2845, Team Duct Tape, is a middle and high-school-level robotics team based at AMRoC Fab Lab.
Makerspaces & Community Organizations
E-smart is an e-waste recycling company whose mission is to recycle old technology from individuals and companies, at the highest compliance standards, and use a portion of the proceeds to fund tech labs for kids without access to computers worldwide. E-smart hosts the Gulf Coast MakerCon Deconstruction Zone!
AMRoC Fab Lab is a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Manufacturing) learning and idea development center located in the University Mall.
Tampa Bay Community Network (TBCN) is a community media center specializing in training and workforce development for the video production industry.
The Community Innovation Collaborative , an initiative of Tampa Bay Community Network and the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation , is a precedent-setting collaborative capacity-building effort to create a one-stop shop for STEAM education, entrepreneurship, small business support and workforce skills development.