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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 end with the...
ROBOTICON Team Spotlight: Meet Masquerade!
Next up in our ROBOTICON 2018 Team Spotlight: FIRST Tech Challenge team 4997 Masquerade, of Middleton High School, right here in Tampa, FL. Coach David Rodriquez shares the team's story. Masquerade is one of four robotics team at Middleton High School in...
ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Meet Foundation for Community Driven Innovation
The Foundation for Community Driven Innovation (FCDI) was founded by a group of FIRST mentors to provide not-for-profit cross program support of Tampa Bay area FIRST programs and general project based learning and skills development for all ages. Over the last three...
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
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, which...
ROBOTICON Partner Spotlight: Hillsborough County, FL
Since our first event at the University of Tampa in 2013, Hillsborough County, through the Economic Development Department, has been a strong supporter of ROBOTICON, seeing in the amazing youth who participate in the event, the skilled future...