Deconstructing the Future at The Hive makerspace, Nov. 15th
On Saturday, November 15th, the Eureka Factory joins in the at The Hive Centennial Celebration Open House at John F. Germany Library, at 900 Ashley Drive in Tampa. Designed by Steve and Terri Willingham, of the Eureka Factory, and located on the 3rd floor of the John...
Eureka! It's time for The Deconstruction 2014
So back in early 2013, when we were tootling around on behalf of Learning is for Everyone (LI4E), we participated in the first ever Deconstruction event. We were fresh off our first go-round on Red Bull Creation 2012, where we made it into the semifinals. We...
Full STEAM Ahead at the Eureka! Factory
The Eureka! Factory has been chugging full STEAM ahead since Maker Faire Orlando, with more great projects and programs coming off the creative conveyor over the next few days. This past weekend, our 2nd annual ROBOTICON FIRST Showcase , sponsored by Bright House...
ROBOTICON Tampa Bay – October 11 & 12
We're so excited to be producing the ROBOTICON Tampa Bay FIRST Showcase again this year. The event, coming up this weekend, October 11 & 12, is free and open to the public and provides a great opportunity to see this great "Sport for the Mind" in action. Our first...
Great Weekend at Maker Faire Orlando 2014
We had a terrific time showcasing our projects and programs at Maker Faire Orlando September 13 & 14, and making new maker friends!. It's always wonderful to see the amazing things people are making and doing, in their garages, in makerspaces, in libraries, in...
Thank You, Hillsborough County!
It with great gratitude that we recognize Hillsborough County for their generous support of ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2014 and Gulf Coast MakerCon 2015, through EDI2 Economic Development grants. Hillsborough County recognizes the added academic and long term career value...
The Hive Comes Alive and a Library Moves Forward
The journey to bringing the John F. Germany Library makerspace to life - a space now known as The Hive - has been a bumpy and sometimes complicated one, as new and untried journeys can be. It can be hard to create something no one's seen before, in an institutional...
The New Feminism: Women who Make Things
They worked as riveters, buckers, sanders, welders, crane operators, bus drivers, uniform makers, bullet makers, parachute folders, clerical workers, assembly line workers, Red Cross and so much more. They were teenagers, young adult to senior citizens. They came...
Apparently We're Easy to Distract
"Duas tantum rex anxius optat, panem et circensus." ( "The people long eagerly for two things - bread and circuses.") Juvénal If you're online for more than five minutes a day, or have caught mainstream news anytime over the last week, you probably already recognize...
Cocoa Farmers of the Ivory Coast: Reflections on Awareness
For us westerners chocolate is just one more thing. It's inconsequential. We like to eat it, sometimes we get delighted by it for a minute. ... We don't think about it and the incredible effort and resources that are required to make it. We take it for granted along...