Check out our 2024 Exhibitors here!

Each of the businesses and organizations listed below shared a variety of fun, interactive and engaging activities and displays at Gulf Coast MakerCon 2024 on June 8th.   Look for 2025 event info later this year.

Mini Z RC Car Racing

Astronaut Films & Studio is a creative video production company & Hub.  

Anakhet’s Armoury makes everything from modern pretty jewelry, functional welded stainless, and period-style riveted maille! Ahakhet’s Armoury will also be demonstrating how chain maille was historically made with rivet maille.   She’ll be exhibiting with Blue Fool Games.

Creative Cutout sells custom laser cut art and jewelry.

Tampa Bay Books & Bracelets

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 .

Mortician and Purveyor of the Strange.

Meet inventor Wayne Rasanen, and learn about his innovative DecaTxt device and his inventive process.

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. 

FLATE and its statewide networked partners are working together to plan for a year-round celebration of Manufacturing Day, designed to inspire the next generation of manufacturers and change the perception of careers in manufacturing to reflect its true status as the most advanced, high-tech industry in the country.

Crafting engaging experiential learning lessons has never been easier!

Hosted by USF Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, SHPE Jr. aims to provide youth with opportunities to participate in hands-on STEM activities, become educated about possible career paths, and become empowered and involved in the world of STEM as a Hispanic individual.

3D Musketeers specializes in full service, art to part, custom additive manufacturing, and 3D printing solutions. They also host the Making Awesome podcast series, which they’re bringing to MakerCon this year!

Innovation Academy is an online, creative arts trade private high school, providing a blended education program that uniquely combines a high school education with career readiness and experience in digital content creation, journalism, and illustration.​​

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. They’ll be running robot demos, showing prototypes and letting guests do some robot driving!

BDCHS students showcase Underwater robotics

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.  

Learn about Pasco Couny Libraries Makerspaces!