ROBOTICON 2022 – our 10th annual Youth Robotics Showcase! – is on the calendar for the month of October as a Manufacturing Month event. The event will be held at University Mall (soon to be RITHM at Uptown) in Tampa, with different programs and events each weekend, as well as weekday online content.
This year, we have the entire mall for event use with more spacious classrooms, a 200-seat auditorium, and our new 8000 sq. ft. AMROC Fab Lab space with about 1000 sq. ft. machine shop. The FIRST Robotics Competition field will be out in the center galleria area, with a full Rapid React field straight from FIRST, for full offseason fun. We’ll also have fields, arenas, and tables for FIRST LEGO League, VEX programs, FIRST Tech Challenge, Beetleweight Combat robotics, drones, and more.
Here’s the general schedule so far:
- Live stream kick-off event the first weekend in October,
- FIRST Robotics Competition Off-season October 8 & 9
- FIRST LEGO League scrimmages on October 15
- VEX IQ & VRC & VEX U on Oct. 16
- Battlebot and Sumobot events and RADC on Oct 22 and 23, and
- FIRST Tech Challenge on Oct 29
We’ll also be holding an Alumni Social & NEXT Challenge, the CAD Challenge, and host a Tech Innovations, College & Career Expo every weekend.
Full program registration will open in June, but in the meantime, interested teams are invited to please complete the ROBOTICON 2022 Interest Survey to help with event planning.
ROBOTICON 2022 Interest Survey
With gratitude to Soaring City Innovation Partnership, RITHM at Uptown, and the Florida High Tech Corridor for helping make ROBOTICON 2022 possible and to event partners FUNducation, the Tampa Bay Technology Alliance and PLUGHITZ Live.