ROBOTICON 2016 Expands to 32 FIRST Robotics Competition Teams!

We’re very happy to announce that we’re able to expand our field of teams across all programs for this year’s FIRST Showcase and Off-Season event! For our FIRST Robotics Competition off-season, we’re able to accommodate up to 32 teams, with...

ROBOTICON Welcomes Hillsborough County as Event Partner!

For the fourth straight year, we’re honored to announce the support of Hillsborough County Government at ROBOTICON Tampa Bay. Last year, Hillsborough County recognized ROBOTICON by proclaiming October 2015 ROBOTICON Month, acknowledging the importance of our big...

ROBOTICON Welcomes Virtual Robotics Toolkit as Event Sponsor!

We’re happy welcome The Virtual Robotics Toolkit by Cogmation, as a new event sponsor this year! The Virtual Robotics Toolkit is a simulator for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robotics, allowing users to build, program, and simulate their own virtual robots in exactly the...

Florida STEAM Educators Conference at ROBOTICON

This year, ROBOTICON Tampa Bay is  pleased to host a two day Florida STEAM Educators Conference, where teachers statewide are invited to see FIRST K-12 project based learning in action and to learn best practices from other schools and educators. There will be teacher...

Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education: The ROBOTICON Issue!

This year, with enormous gratitude to Hillsborough County, Florida and the Hillsborough Economic Development Innovation Initiative, and Comcast NBCUniversal, we’re pleased to be able to provide companion education content for ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2015 through a...