Foundation for Community Driven Innovation
Making the FutureRESOURCES
Here you can find a dynamic and growing compendium of both human and digital STEAM Education and Workforce Development Resources
FCDI RESOURCES
The Power Of The Off-Season
The Power Of The Off-Season was a conference presentation given by FCDI at the FIRST World Championship in Houston in April 2018. You may download a PDF file of the presentation by clicking the link above, and see video of the talk here.
Building a FIRST Community Center
The presentation, Building a FIRST Community Center, was delivered at the 2019 FIRST Championship Conference in Houston in April 2019, and provides a basic road map to creating a facility like AMRoC Fab Lab in communities nationwide.
Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center Overview
At the Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics Center, youth and adults can explore science, technology, manufacturing and related education and career training.
BEST PRACTICES
ONLINE RESOURCES
- Afterschool Tech Toolkit – National AfterSchool Association
- FACTE – Florida Association for Career and Technical Education
- FIRST K-12 youth STEM programs
- Florida Makes –State Manufacturing Extension Partnership
- Ideas-Inspire – DIY Engineering & Aviation projects
- Makerspace for Education
- STEM Florida – Connecting the Movement
- TechGirlz Tech-Shop-in-a-Box – free and open source workshop plans
- The Connectory – comprehensive collection of STEM opportunities and programs
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
PREFERRED SERVICE PROVIDERS
- Graphic Design & Web Services – Studio 7 Communications
- Live Event Coverage & Podcasting – PLuGHiTz Corporation is our preferred provider for all event related audio visual service needs.
- Online Engineering education and certification – SolidProfessor
-Follow Us - Get Inspired - Make the Future
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