by Steve Willingham | Aug 17, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, Robotics, STEM
The Maker Movement is a theoretical and physical embodiment of constructivism that will reform how we educate students. (Roffey, 2015) Education grounded in “making” has the capacity to transform the way we think about pedagogy and learning (Kurti, Kurti, &...
by Steve Willingham | Jul 31, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Robotics, STEM
On September 29 & 30, the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation will host the 6th Annual ROBOTICON Tampa Bay K-12 STEAM Showcase and FIRST Robotics Competition off-season event at the University of South Florida Yuengling Center. At ROBOTICON, nearly 1000...
by Steve Willingham | Jul 16, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Resources, STEM
As schools and youth advocacy groups look to improve equity and access in providing more effective science and tech education resources and programming in educational environments, other organizations are focusing on the critical afterschool period, in which students...
by Steve Willingham | Jul 9, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, STEM
We’ve worked with Tony Glockler, CEO and Co-founder of SolidProfessor, for about a year now and continue to work closely with him on the development of some training platforms we’ll be using at AMRoC, the Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center. Last...
by Steve Willingham | Jul 3, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Manufacturing, Robotics, STEM
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.
by Steve Willingham | Jul 3, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Manufacturing, Robotics, STEM
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...
