by Steve Willingham | Nov 25, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, Robotics, STEM, Training, Volunteer
In the coming weeks we’ll be hard at work transforming a former sportswear store into a working Manufacturing & Robotics Fab Lab. The transformation is already under way: A forest of shelving has been thinned, work stations arranged and youth robotics...
by Steve Willingham | Nov 23, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, Robotics, STEM, Volunteer
Any time is a good time to give to your community, but this time of year, especially, serves as a powerful reminder of the many ways we can be agents of change to help bring about the kinds of resources and improvements our communities need to become places of...
by Steve Willingham | Nov 1, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, Robotics, STEM, Training, Volunteer
As we build out the Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics Center (AMRoC) Fab Lab, we’re starting to get calls and emails about how people can get involved. We’re so excited that you’re excited, too! While it’s still very early in our...
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 | 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, &...
