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Equity in Entrepreneurship Mentor Spotlight: Meet Justin Heacock, of Florida Polytechnic University
Our next Equity in Entrepreneurship Mentor Spotlight, welcomes Justin Heacock to our program. Justin currently works at Florida Polytechnic University as the Entrepreneurship Center Coordinator where he founded the Entrepreneurship Program in 2016. That program has...
Program Partner Spotlight: Paper Circuits with Bits4Bots
Larsha Johnson, founder of Bits4Bots, LLC, has been a longtime friend and program partner to AMRoC Fab Lab. This summer, she put together a great early electronics class for elementary school children that can be taught in a small group on-site session as well as...
Congratulations Frontier Challenge Semi-Finalists!
Congratulations to our three Frontier Challenge semi-finalists! Our Semifinalists The three teams competing for the top Frontier Summer Robotics Challenge award, whom we’re calling Team Vu, Team E&A and Team Trinity Dragons , submitted three very different...
Equity in Entrepreneurship Mentor Spotlight: Meet Yvette D. Clayton and Building Toward the Future
Next up in our Equity in Entrepreneurship Spotlight, program mentor. Yvette D. Clayton. Yvette is President and CEO of Building Toward the Future (BTF) which specializes in helping organizations train and coach high potential students. She has 26 years of human...
Equity in Entrepreneurship Spotlight: Carol Minor and the Idea Camp
Our Equity in Entrepreneurship program kicked off this week for our amazing first cohort of early stage entrepreneurs with the Florida Small Business Development Center's immersive Idea Camp, setting the stage for the next 16 weeks of in-depth start- up training. In...
Welcoming AMRoC Media and Marketing Coordinator, Tatyanna Cobb
We're very happy to welcome our new Media and Marketing Coordinator, Tatyanna Cobb. Tatyanna has been a friend of AMRoC Fab Lab since the beginning. We made her acquaintance through Code for Tampa Bay Brigade several years ago, and have always enjoyed her warmth,...
Announcing the Frontier Summer Robotics Challenge!
AMRoC is happy to announce the Frontier Robotics Challenge, in partnership with First Step Marketing . This summer robotics competition invites competitors ages 13+, working with a team of 2 or more, to build a robotic mechanism that can retrieve a variety of premiums...
Celebrating Our 1st Anniversary June 23-26
This month - specifically June 23-26 - we celebrate our first anniversary at AMRoC Fab Lab. While it's a quieter celebration than we would have anticipated earlier this year, it's still a joyous occasion and we're proud of what we've accomplished in the past year...
AMRoC Fab Lab Announces New Equity in Entrepreneurship Program
The Equity in Entrepreneurship program, produced by FCDI and AMRoC Fab Lab in partnership with the Hillsborough County Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and local area business leaders, seeks to help bridge the race and gender equity gap in early-stage...