ROBOTICON Team Spotlight: Meet Roaring Riptide!

ROBOTICON Team Spotlight: Meet Roaring Riptide!

Surfing in from Gainesville, Florida, here’s FIRST Robotics Competition team #4118, Roaring Riptide! Founded in 2012, the team operates out of P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School at the University of Florida “Roaring Riptide’s work doesn’t start and...
ROBOTICON Team Spotlight: Meet the Children of the Swamp!

ROBOTICON Team Spotlight: Meet the Children of the Swamp!

FIRST Robotics Competition team #179, the Children of the Swamp, of Riviera Beach,  is one of the oldest FIRST Robotics Competition teams  in Florida (21 years old!) and has made the trek up from Palm Beach County nearly every year since ROBOTICON started in 2013. ...
ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet Lockheed Martin

ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet Lockheed Martin

We’re happy to welcome Lockheed Martin back as a ROBOTICON program partner for the second year in a row.  Lockheed Martin has an important presence right here in Tampa Bay, in Oldsmar where around 500 employees work at this Mission Systems and Training division,...
ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet Sourcetoad

ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet Sourcetoad

Another new event partner we’re happy to welcome to ROBOTICON Tampa Bay this year is Sourcetoad. Sourcetoad is a technology consulting and innovation company. They specialize in delivering web and mobile applications, desktop software, and smart TV interfaces to...
ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet STEMWERX

ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet STEMWERX

Our ROBOTICON event partners bring everything from fiscal support to educational programming to our event each year. This year we’re excited to welcome STEMWERX to our Innovation Fair. STEMWERX is a mobile STEM lab conducting motorsports focused STEM enrichment...