The Foundation for Community Driven Innovation is honored to have organized the Synapse Innovation Summit STEM Pavilion showcasing the best of our future science and tech talent pipeline development tools. The STEM Pavilion will be open from 9am to 6pm on the patio above Thunder Alley at the Amalie Arena March 28.
We’ll be sharing information about our Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center, currently under development, as well as about our science, tech and career readiness initiatives, like ROBOTICON & our STEAM Teams program. Here’s a look at all the great organizations that will be in STEM Pavilion and presentations you’ll be able to see.
In addition to FCDI, exhibitors include:
- Pasco Libraries
- Hillsborough Libraries
- Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute
- Braas Company
- Tampa Bay STEM Network
- Prograde Labs
- Pasco County Public Schools
- Pinellas County Public Library Cooperative
- PLuGHiTz Live
- Healthcare Innovation
- Youth robotics teams FIRST LEGO League team Porygon Programmers, FIRST Tech Challenge team Coding Hope and FIRST Robotics Competition team Edgar Allan Ohms
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade
- Hillsborough Community College – FLATE
- St Petersburg College – Innovation Lab
- University of South Florida
- Hillsborough County Schools – STEM
- Metropolitan Ministries
- Clearwater Library
- St. Petersburg College– Titan Robotics and Automation Challenge
Presentations include:
- “Starting an Electrathon Team/Building an Electrathon vehicle” with Fredi Beck, of Electrathon of Tampa Bay
- “The School to Workforce Pipeline: It’s All Connected” – with Terri Willingham, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation (FCDI)
- “Integrating Industry Practices and Institutional Knowledge for a Robust Manufacturing Innovation Ecosystem” – a panel session moderated by Steve Willingham of FCDI, with special guest Byron Clayton, CEO of Pittsburg based Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute
- “Creating Virtual Experiences in Your Library” – Exploring Hyrbrid Reality technologies with Chad Mairn of St. Petersburg College
- “Discover, Engage, Transform: Innovation at Hillsborough County Public Libraries” with Megan Danak, Hillsborough County Public Lib aries
- “FLATE (Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence) Impact” with Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College FLATE
- “Using Civic Tech as a coding education tool” with Terri Willingham, Code for Tampa Bay Brigade
- “Clearwater Library Maker Studios”with Rino Landa, Clearwater Public Library System
- “The Future of Manufacturing” ARM Institute overview
- “Amateur Rocketry” DIY suborbital aeronautics, with Chris Willingham, Prograde Labs
- “Broadcast Technology Education” with Scott Ertz, PLuGHiTz Live
You can find the full list of event exhibitors HERE and register to attend HERE. Student Scholarships to attend the event are also available! You can also Volunteer at the event, by registering HERE.
Be sure to stop by the STEM Pavilion on Wednesday, March 28, and see the amazing youth and the people who are working with them, to help make their future and ours better!