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Making Your Summer at AMRoC Fab Lab!
We're (mostly) settled in our new home now, and gearing back up to spend the rest of the summer doing things we love - like flying drones, building robots, exploring Big Ideas for small businesses, innovating and inventing! Check out the great drone's eye video tour...
June at (New) AMRoC: It’s Our 3rd Birthday and We Have a New Home!
Our new home isn't far from our old one. It's just across the hall, and it's a beautiful place to celebrate our 3rd Anniversary! We've got 8000 sq. ft. of glorious public maker space, with separate lab areas for our 3D printers, sewing & arts center, a business...
May is for Moving at AMRoC Fab Lab
As we get ready to celebrate our 3rd Anniversary and look to the future in our brand new space full of fresh possibilities, it's important to remember the hard good work that we've been doing since we opened our doors to the public in 2019. Thank you, Trail Mixed...
Uptown Tampa Community Collaborative Showcase: Meet FCDI, NET SVS & WellBuilt Bikes!
A couple of years ago, we launched the Uptown Tampa Community Collaborative (UTCC) in an effort to better connect the great community partners we worked with and the new organizations and businesses coming into the area. Today, this voluntary association of area...
Welcoming Brian Alvarez-Bailey as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at AMRoC Fab Lab
We're happy to welcome Brian Alvarez-Bailey, the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation's new Entrepreneur-in-Residence at AMRoC Fab Lab, to the AMRoC team! Mr. Alvarez-Bailey is the founder of Allison, a Fintech company that serves Community Banks and Credit...
April at AMRoC: Celebrating our Volunteers!
We're celebrating Volunteer Appreciation Month by highlighting some of the amazing individuals who make our many programs possible! Over 20 volunteers help out at AMRoC each month, providing customer service support and mentoring in our various programs. Look for...
FIRST Robotics Competition Team Edgar Allan Ohms Heads to Tallahassee Regional!
This week, March 16-19, the AMRoC Fab Lab high-school level FIRST Robotics Competition team #5276 the Edgar Allan Ohms, heads off to Florida A&M University to compete with more than 35 other teams from around Florida and the nation, in the Tallahassee FRC...
March at AMRoC: Springing into the Future
We head out of a busy and energetic February (see highlights below) and spring into March planning for our new digs right across the hall from our current location. We'll have limited programming in March, as we start laying out a floor plan for the new space, taking...
State Fair Frenzy Beetle Weight Combat Robotics Event – Saturday Feb. 19
It's time for the first ever Florida State Fair Frenzy Combat Robotics event , as Beetle Weight and under class robots face off in the Florida Center on Saturday, Feb. 19! We'll also have drone flying demos from Tampa Drones, and FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Tech...
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