Congrats ROBOTICON 2017 Award Winners!

Congrats ROBOTICON 2017 Award Winners!

ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2017 was our biggest and best event ever, with over 3000 attendees, between teams and public guests! We can’t thank everyone enough, from the University of South Florida and Hillsborough County to all our incredible volunteers.  Because of...
ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet SONNY’s The CarWash Factory!

ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet SONNY’s The CarWash Factory!

SONNY’S The CarWash Factory is a long time friend of FIRST, sponsoring and mentoring FIRST Robotics Competition team 1251, Tech-Tiger Robotics for almost 15 years.  Originally they were just coming up to see ROBOTICON, but then we ran into a logistical challenge...

Check Out ROBOTICON 2017 Workshops & Presentations!

Check out our line up of workshops and presentations at ROBOTICON this year, and make sure students take time out between scrimmages and practice matches to learn from our great event partners. A very special opportunity this year is our Manufacturing the Future panel...
ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet SOFWERX

ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet SOFWERX

Here in Tampa SOFWERX has been a great friend of FIRST! SOFWERX, located in Ybor City, has hosted the Tampa area FIRST Robotics Kick Off for two years in a row now, provides mentoring support to area teams, and is one of our great ROBOTICON Tampa Bay sponsors.  FIRST...

State Funding for Florida FIRST Robotics Competition teams!

Thanks once again to the forward thinking vision and the dedicated support of high quality STEAM education, of  State of Florida Representatives George  Moraitis and Bruce Anton, and Senator Jeff Clemens, new and veteran FIRST Robotics Competition teams in Florida...