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Theresa Willingham

Foundation for Community Driven

Innovation

10/25/2018

Post Event Report


In this Report

About ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2018

ROBOTICON & Economic Development

ROBOTICON at a Glance

Media Coverage

Participating Teams

Education

Award Winners

ROBOTICON Sponsors and Partners

Special Recognition

What’s Next

About Foundation for Community Driven Innovation


About ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2018 Tampa - ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2018 was our biggest and best event yet. This year, FIRST Robotics Competition teams played on a brand new field, made here locally in Tampa, intended to be the anchor piece of the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation’s new Fab Lab and Robotics Center, announced at the event. Over 4000 people attended ROBOTICON this year, which was also a Manufacturing Day event, enjoying the wealth of STEM education displays and interactive exhibits set up throughout the Yuengling Center. With support from University of South Florida, Hillsborough County, Lockheed Martin, Jabil, JPMorgan Chase, USF Connect and the Florida High Tech Corridor, SOFWERX, AFCEA, Women in Defense, Sourcetoad , Women in Technology, !p , Visit Tampa Bay and the Tampa Bay Sport Commission, and in partnership with PLuGHiTz Live and other fine local businesses and community organizations, ROBOTICON Tampa Bay was able, for the 6th year in a row, to provide students and guests an opportunity to enjoy a full scale FIRST Robotics Competition event featuring high school student built robots that weigh up to 120 lbs., as well as FIRST Tech Challenge (7th to 12th grade teams) , and FIRST LEGO League (4th to 8th grade teams) scrimmages and practice games, and a FIRST LEGO League Jr. Expo for the youngest roboticists, ages 6 to 9. This year, ROBOTICON was space themed, and we were joined by special guest, Kurt Leucht, of NASA Kennedy Space Center to share the latest from NASA. There were also workshops and panel discussions from Women in Defense, and Citi, and USF CARD, and terrific exhibits from the University of South Florida College of Engineering along with several of our great sponsors and event partners, there was something for everyone at ROBOTICON. Guests got to try their minds at brain controlled drone flying, test CO2 cars in the STEMWERX wind tunnel , meet motorsports luminary Jeff Andretti, check out the awesomely tenacious 4-legged robot SOFWERX had on display and launch paper rockets with an Infento air canon at the Green Mouse Academy booth, and more. The Board of County Commissioners once again issued a proclamation for ROBOTICON Month in Hillsborough County. And the biggest announcement to come out of ROBOTICON: the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, our nonprofit event organizer, announced their new Tampa based Fab Lab and Robotics Center at University Mall, just down the street from the University of South Florida, which will be part of the new mixed-use city center under development there. FIRST youth robotics teams and others throughout Tampa Bay and central Florida will be able to use the facility to build, learn, and practice year round , and will have access to the full scale permanent FIRST Robotics Competition field, FIRST Tech Challenge field, FIRST LEGO League tables and a rich variety of tools and resources. Thanks to FIRST Tech Challenge, we were also able to give away another rookie team grant to a team wishing to help grow FIRST in their area. This year’s winner was FIRST Robotics Competition team 5816 Gra-V Robotics. Congratulations!


ROBOTICON & Economic Development ROBOTICON Tampa Bay directly impacts the growth and attraction of technology based businesses and startups through event participants, vendors, and business sponsors/mentors. The inaugural event in 2013, drew over 700 students from over 40 FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics competition teams from around the state, and about 500 visitors from around Tampa Bay – over 1000 people over the course of the two day event. This year’s event brought together over 50 teams, and more than 1000 students and their support crews, plus another 3000 public guests. Nearly 80 University of South Florida area hotel rooms were booked, and participants dined at over a dozen area restaurants. Alongside the robot development for the specific game of the event, participants also enjoyed classes and workshops on all aspects of the technology industry from programming to business development, connecting participants with industry leaders sharing their knowledge and expertise.

ROBOTICON Impact

New teams are started, typically 2-3 annually

Existing teams find up new mentors and sponsors

New students find placement on existing teams

Live event coverage and interviews via PLuGHiTz Live provides a strong visual impact and a compelling format for raising awareness of the event and participants.

Attending teams become prepared for the new season.

New scholarship providers and team sponsors are identified.

Over $80,000 invested into the local economy as a result of the event each year, including hotel rooms, dining, and shopping, and event production, and this year

The Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center (AMRoC) Fab Lab was launched, bringing a new academic and workforce development pipeline to the USF area Opportunity Zone.

ROBOTICON Tampa Bay is leveraging the private sector and the vast resources Tampa/Hillsborough County already offer to create a unique event that maximizes all that this industry has to offer, bringing industry leading experts from local businesses, startup accelerators, and the educational system together to share their talents, collaborate on ideas, and plan for the future with those who will be driving the future, students.


ROBOTICON 2018 at a Glance

Attendance – Over 4000 People

1500+ students , from more than 50 FIRST K-12 teams across 20 cities in Florida – from

as far south as Ft. Lauderdale, to Melbourne, Orlando and Kissimmee, and as far north

as Gainesville, as well as teams from around Tampa Bay

50+ Volunteers – many FIRST Alumni

About 40% of the attending teams, comprising hailed from out of town, and booked

approximately nearly 80 area hotel rooms over the weekend and dined at over a dozen

area restaurants.

Over 3000 guests from around Tampa Bay and beyond attended the free event over

the course of the weekend.

Corporate Involvement

In addition to title sponsorship by the University of South Florida, and partnership support from Hillsborough County government, Research One, and the Florida High Tech Corridor, corporate engagement at ROBOTICON again brought in new donors this year, with six new sponsors. Additionally, Lockheed Martin doubled their contribution this year.

Jabil

Sourcetoad

WITI Tampa

Women in Defense

STEMWERX

Tampa Bay Sports Commission Local Area Businesses and Organizational Partners

PLuGHiTz Live Corporation

Sonic Print

USF Connect

SOFWERX

Studio 7 Communications

Visit Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Sports Commission

Citigroup


Media Reach

Website stats

Social Media ROBOTICON continues to leverage social

media well. Social media generated

energetic engagement with area tech and

businesses, and great statewide and national

interaction, with social media numbers were

up from already record totals the year

before.

Twitter

Livestreaming Metrics via PLuGHiTZ Live:

Twitch - 1306 viewers

YouTube Live - 300 views

Facebook Live - 300 views

Periscope – 100 views

2000+ unique views


Facebook


Other Media

Channel 10 Coverage


Media Con’td

Channel 10 Story


Participating Teams

FIRST Robotics Competition Teams 179 Children of the Swamp, Palm Beach +2nd bot (Tacodile) 233 The Pink Team, Rockledge 801 HorsePower, Merritt Island 1251 Tech-Tiger Robotics, Tamarac 1369 Minotaur, Tampa 1523 M. A. R. S., Palm Beach + 2nd bot (SRAM) 1902 Exploding Bacon, Orlando + 2nd bot (Exploding Bacon – CSC) 2152 SMASH, Port Orange + 2nd bot (SMASH TWO) 2383 Ninjineers, Plantation + 2nd bot (Ninjas in Pajamas) 2425 Hydra, Tampa 2797 Knight & Nerdy, Clermont 3164 Stealth Tigers, Tampa 3242 IllumiCats, Ocala 4064 InZombiacs, Ocala 4065 Nerds of Prey, Minneola + 2nd bot (2 Nerds and a Robot) 4592 Mighty Mechanical Mustangs, Hollywood 4118 Roaring Riptide, Gainesville 5145 WolfBotics, Gainesville 5276 Edgar Allan Ohms, Land O’Lakes 5283 Torque, Tampa 5472 Stallions, Plantation + 2nd bot (Stallions Robotics) 5816 Gra-V Robotics, Orlando 5842 Royal Robotics, New Port Richey + 2nd bot (Also Royal)

FIRST Tech Challenge Teams 2845 Team Duct Tape, New Port Richey 3846 Maelstrom, Tampa 4469 Hydra, Tampa 4997 Masquerade, Tampa 5937 Renaissance Robotics, Apopka 6323 The Pink Team, Rockledge 7203 KNO3, Tampa 10497 SwampBots, Gainesville 11429 Mechanical Bulls, Tampa 11499 Plaid Pelicans, Melbourne 11628 Coding Hope, Tampa 12600 Hadron Knights, Tampa 12715 Robo Tux Cats, 14189 VISION, Tampa 14215 Plaid Piranhas , Melbourne 14534 Robo Pegz, Oviedo FIRST LEGO League Teams 08056 Falcons 18962 Panther Tech, Brandon 23925 Belmont Knights, Lake City 27447 Corbett Prep, Tampa 30648 Tie Dye Gummy Divas, Tampa 31128 RoboNinjas, Tampa 37578 Techno Wizards, Tampa 37658 United Bananas, Riverview FIRST LEGO League Jr. Teams 12423 Lego Lions, Kissimmee 13599 Space Unicorns, Tampa 14115 LEGO Pros, New Port Richey 14225 Flawless Flossing Unicorns , Tampa


Educational Student & Public Workshops

Saturday, September 28 Workshops

10:00 am –FIRST Tech Challenge Build & Workshop Sessions throughout the day

(Hardwood Club – teams)

10:30 am – NASA Career Tracks with Kurt Leucht, Software Development Team Lead,

NASA Kennedy Space Center – Media Center (teams)

11:30 am – Career Paths in Technology – Challenges and Solutions, with Women in

Defense, WITI Tampa & Citi , Media Center (teams)

1:30 pm – Business Plan Development Best Practices –Brian Kornfield , Founding

Partner, Synapse – Media Center (teams)

2:00 pm– FIRST 101 – Public Workshop, Main concourse

3:00 pm – Meet A NASA Engineer with Kurt Leucht, Software Engineer, NASA Kennedy

Space Center – Concourse – public session

2:30 pm – Teaming Up for ASD Students – a workshop for teachers, coaches & mentors

– USF Learning Academy/Center for Autism and Related Disorders

3:30 pm – NASA’s Plans For Mars with Kurt Leucht, Software Engineer, NASA Kennedy

Space Center – Media Center (teams)

Sunday, September 30 workshops

11am – NASA’s Plans For Mars with Kurt Leucht, Software Engineer, NASA Kennedy

Space Center – Media Room (teams)

2:00 pm – FIRST 101 Public Session – Concourse A

2:30 pm – Meet A NASA Engineer with Kurt Leucht, Software Engineer, NASA Kennedy

Space Center – Concourse A – public session

Plus

Robust University of South Florida Engineering Expo with over a dozen groups

exhibiting

Innovation Fair throughout concourse featuring aerodynamics exhibits and more


2018 ROBOTICON Award Winners

FIRST Robotics Competition

Winning Alliance – 179 Children of the Swamp, 5472 Stallions, 2154 Baby Smash

Finalist Alliance – 1524 S.R.A.M, 2383 Ninjineers, 2425 HYDRA

Gracious Professional – 1369 Minotaur

Awesome Pit – 4118 Roaring Riptide

Team Spirit – 2383 Ninjineers

FIRST Tech Challenge

Awesome pit – 5937 Renaissance Robotics

Gracious Professionalism – 10497 SwampBots

Team Spirit – 11499 Plaid Pelicans

FIRST LEGO League

Robot Performance Award – 31128 RoboNinjas

Team Spirit Award – 37578 Techno Wizards

Awesome Pit Award – 30648 Tie Dye Gummy Divas

FIRST LEGO League Jr.

Team Spirit Award – 14225 Flawless Flossing Unicorns

Teamwork Award – 14115 The LEGO Pros

Robust Design – 13599 Space Unicorns


ROBOTICON Sponsors & Partners


Special Proclamation –ROBOTICON Month


What’s Next for ROBOTICON ROBOTICON Tampa Bay is now fully established as an annual STEM and tech education

destination event in Tampa.

This year, we accomplished many of the goals we aimed for after last year’s event, and hit a

couple of unanticipated milestones early:

Enhancing Innovation Fair exhibits with more interactive displays

Bringing at least one new community partner on board (we brought six!)

Engaging community partners earlier and more effectively for event sponsorship,

College and Career Expo and other programming

o Lockheed Martin doubled their sponsorship

o Citi, WITI, Women in Defense and the Society of Women Engineers came

together to create a well-attended panel discussion on challenges and solutions

in STEM career pathways

o USF Engineering Expo was bigger and more robust and interactive than in past

years

Public participation increased by nearly 40%

We announced the launch of the AMRoC Fab Lab at University Mall, as a new

permanent FIRST robotics and STEM education facility

For our 2019 event, we’ll continue building on ROBOTICON best practices and aim to :

Grow team participation by at least 10%

Increase public attendance by at least 10%

Enhance Innovation Fair exhibits further with more interactive displays

Bring at least two new community partners on board

Incorporate pre-event programming into AMRoC Fab Lab

Thanks to the University of South Florida, Hillsborough County and the USF Area business

community, ROBOTICON is now a well-regarded, signature STEAM Competition event in Tampa

Bay, Florida and the nation, and an exciting and effective way to show our next generation of

science and technology leaders why they might want to live, work, play and learn in Tampa.

Visit ROBOTICON.net for more information.


About Foundation for Community Driven Innovation

The Foundation for Community Driven Innovation (FCDI) is a 501c3 not for

profit organization dedicated to supporting academic achievement,

economic development and the spirit of innovation through inspiring

programs, active learning and exciting, innovative projects.

We do this by facilitating fiscal sponsorship for to help build the

capacity of project based, competitive STEAM education teams

that don’t have their own nonprofit organization or school support and by

supporting exciting hands on learning and living events like ROBOTICON Tampa

Bay, an annual youth STEM Showcase event. FCDI is the founder of the Tampa Bay

Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics Center (AMRoC Fab Lab), established in 2018 as

part of the University Mall mixed used, city center redevelopment effort, providing a home for

year round FIRST competition experiences and STEM education for all ages.

The Foundation for Community Driven Innovation is a Gold Level Guidestar member and a

Top Rated organization on Great Nonprofits. FCDI is also a member of the federally

created Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute. For more information,

visit FFCDI.org

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