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Manufacturing a Community Driven Future
Check out this nice PLuGHiTz Live interview with FCDI Executive Director, Terri Willingham, done at the FIRST Robotics Competition Orlando Regional back in March, to hear her vision for AMRoC and a Community Driven future.
Florida Earns a “D” in Conexus Manufacturing & Logistics Report
The Conexus Indiana 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics National Report is out and Florida earned a resounding "D" in Manufacturing Industry Health overall. You can see the full Florida Report here: https://conexus.cberdata.org/state/FL "Human Capital" dropped to a...
Meet the Manufacturer: Tampa Technik
As we build out the Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center, we're working with a lot of great people and organizations, some new, like the ARM Institute, and some that we've known a long time, like Paul Markun at Tampa Technik in St. Petersburg. Tampa...
Manufacturing Education: A look at the LIFT/IACMI Learning Hub
In an article this week titled, Reviving the Manufacturing Sector, Starting in Middle School, Education Week reported on the educational efforts of LIFT: Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, one of the 14 "innovation institutes" (including ARM Institute, of which...
FIRST Robotics Competition Field Progress
Foundation for Community Driven Innovation (FCDI) board members and FIRST alumni met yesterday at Electro Mechanical Solutions (EMS) in Odessa, to inspect AMRoCs FIRST Robotics Competition field construction project. After assembling fields for six ROBOTICONs and...
FCDI Hosts ARM Institute Visit in Tampa Bay
The Foundation for Community Driven Innovation , a member of the ARM Institute and developer of AMRoC, hosted a visit from the federally established institute, based at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburg, PA . Ryan Astor, Regional Relationship Manager of ARM, was given a...
AMRoC FIRST Robotics Competition Field Build Underway at EMS
A centerpiece of the Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center (AMRoC) that FCDI is developing is a full scale FIRST Robotics Competition field, like the one used at our annual ROBOTICON STEM Showcase event at the University of South Florida Sun Dome Arena each...
Welcome to the Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center!
We're excited to announce the creation of the Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center (AMRoC). As plans are finalized for this precedent setting space, look for news and updates here, and for ways you can be involved, as a business or academic partner....
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