Exhibitors
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!
2025 Special Events & Activities!
Combat @ MakerCon – Cohosted by Build Fight Fun, see 3 lb and under weight class robots duke it out!
Explore AI in a whole new way with Ora Tanner
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.
Makers of Innovations
Meet inventor Wayne Rasanen, and learn about his innovative DecaTxt device and his inventive process.
Makers of Fun 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.
Crafting engaging experiential learning lessons has never been easier!
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.
Brooks DeBartolo Collegiate High School joins us to showcase their world class MATE ROV Underwater Robotics program!
Black Unicorn Educationᵀᴹ is the go-to platform for informal learning resources about emerging technologies, featuring content that highlights perspectives of diverse communities.
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!
FIRST Tech Challenge Team 2845, Team Duct Tape, is a middle and high-school-level robotics team based at AMRoC Fab Lab. Students will be running robot demos and letting guests try their hand at driving a robot,too!
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.
Scoutlier is a digital assistant that helps you design, scaffold and personalize your lessons and deliver them on any device so that your students learn more independently and engage more deeply with their activities.
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.