ROBOTICON Team Spotlight: Meet the Porygon Programmers!

The Porygon Programmers, FIRST LEGO League team 23878 from Valrico, Florida, are using Quizlets to prepare for the Animal Allies season, and they are encouraging other teams to use them too. Quizlet is a free, fun school study website and app, where you can create...

ROBOTICON Tampa Bay Welcomes USF Connect as 2016 Sponsor!

USF Connect has been an event sponsor since ROBOTICON started four years ago, and we’re pleased to welcome them back again this year, to mark our expansion into the USF Sun Dome with our biggest event yet! USF CONNECT is the business and economic development...

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...

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...

ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2016 Set for Oct. 8 & 9 at the USF Sun Dome!

We’re happy to announce that ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2016 is confirmed at its new location, the University of South Florida Sun Dome, on October 8 & 9.  We’re grateful the University of South Florida for their generous support of ROBOTICON and their...

Geared Up for SOFWERX FRC Kick-Off January 9!

We here at ROBOTICON are super stoked for our live Tampa Bay Kick-off event at the Doolittle Institute’s SOFWERX facility in Ybor City tomorrow morning!  In collaboration with Eureka! Factory, SOCOM & SOFWERX, we’ve got a great event lined up for our...