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Help Secure State Funding for FIRST in Florida
FIRST Robotics Competition Team 744 Shark Attack , part of Westminster Academy Robotics in South Florida, along with FIRST Tech Challenge Team RISE 7719 , of Lakeland, which is also heading up the first ever Florida FIRST Advocacy Conference, and others from the...
Chchch-Changes: AMRoC Takes Shape
AMRoC continues its remarkable transformation from sportswear store to Fab Lab thanks to the generous donations of time, tools and equipment from great community friends like Hillsborough County Public Libraries, eSmart Recycling, Tampa Hackerspace, 3D...
A Year End Thank You from AMRoC Fab Lab!
The transformation continues! As the year winds to a close, we want to thank all the amazing individuals and organizations who have been helping build AMRoC quite literally from the ground up, out of a former retail shop. Since October: A couple hundred feet of...
Please Consider AMRoC Fab Lab in Your Holiday Giving!
Check out our Amazon Wish List and see other ways to help on our Get Involved page - Thank you!
See How our Fab Lab Grows!
In the coming weeks we'll be hard at work transforming a former sportswear store into a working Manufacturing & Robotics Fab Lab. The transformation is already under way: A forest of shelving has been thinned, work stations arranged and youth robotics fields are...
Help Build AMRoC Fab Lab During the Giving Season!
Any time is a good time to give to your community, but this time of year, especially, serves as a powerful reminder of the many ways we can be agents of change to help bring about the kinds of resources and improvements our communities need to become places of...
How to Get Involved
As we build out the Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics Center (AMRoC) Fab Lab, we're starting to get calls and emails about how people can get involved. We're so excited that you're excited, too! While it's still very early in our build out, it's not to...
AMRoC: The Fab Lab
The Foundation for Community Driven Innovation (FCDI), began work on the project now known as the AMRoC Fab Lab two years ago, after receiving an Argosy Foundation grant for securing a FIRST Robotics Competition field and related FIRST K-12 resources and gear. A...
AMRoC Has a Home!
We're very excited to announce that the Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center now has a home at University Mall on Fowler Avenue in Tampa, near the University of South Florida. In partnership with the Mall, Hillsborough County Libraries and other...