by Steve Willingham | Oct 22, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, Robotics, STEM, Training
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...
by Steve Willingham | Oct 8, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, Robotics, STEM, Training
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...
by Steve Willingham | Sep 12, 2018 | Apprenticeships, Education, Manufacturing, Resources, STEM, Training
The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced the launch of a new digital platform, Apprenticeship.gov. While there had been a similar resource previously, the new and improved portal features an Apprenticeship Finder tool intended to offer career seekers a...
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 24, 2018 | Education, Manufacturing, Resources, STEM
There are lots of online training platforms and resources, and we’ve featured some of our favorites here before, like SolidProfessor, which focuses on specific certification needs, and Skills Commons, an Open Educational Resources (OER) platform. 180Skills...
