Engineering

Competitors go head-to-head with their innovative creations at ROBOTICON, which returns to Rithm in North Tampa for a month-long event beginning October 5th.

Get ready for AMRoC Fab Lab ROBOTICON 2024

AmRoC Fab Lab's Roboticon 2024 youth robotics showcase returns to North Tampa from October 5th through November 3rd.

Latest in Engineering
Work is underway to return Ybor City's Seventh Avenue to a brick road.
Back to brick for Ybor’s Seventh Avenue

Construction crews have started work on a project returning Ybor City's main drag Seventh Avenue to a brick road.

Water Street Tampa won multiple awards at the 2023 Planning & Design Awards.
Enter projects in the 42nd annual Planning & Design Awards

The Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission is accepting entries for the 42nd annual Planning & Design Awards. 

The annual USF-Selmon Bridge Building Competition lets Bay Area middle and high school students put their engineering skills to the test.
Local students test their engineering skills at USF-Selmon Bridge Building Competition

Originally launched in the 1980s, the annual USF-Selmon Bridge Building Competition lets Bay Area middle and high school students put their engineering skills to the test. 

St. Petersburg College's Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art  presented a talk from hometown astronaut and alumnus Nicole Stott on the connection between art and space.
Hometown astronaut Nicole Stott mixes art and science at Leepa-Rattner

Hometown astronaut, artist and alumnus Nicole Stott visited St. Petersburg College's Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art to spotlight the natural connection between science and art.

Tampa holds information session on proposed downtown roundabout

City of Tampa officials will hold a public information session during Riverfest on Saturday to share details and get feedback on a roundabout planned downtown at Laurel Street and Doyle Carlton Drive.

Florida grant to help vets, spouses transition to civilian careers

A Florida “Get There Faster Grant” will help veterans transition to high-demand jobs in the aviation sector.

A young woman learns to use a serger machine.
Tampa Hackerspace: A place for makers to grow, develop new careers

What’s new at Tampa Hackerspace? Winners of a 2017 Cube Quest Challenge are waiting for their mini-satellite to blast into deep space aboard the rocket Artemis. The sculptor who created the popular T-Rex skull, Mabel, is planning more critters. And girls are being taught to code.

Airplane passengers and commuters taking all three bridges across Tampa Bay can see the cranes lined up along the Howard Frankland Bridge as construction continues.
Cranes mark ongoing reconstruction of Howard Frankland Bridge connecting Tampa, St. Pete

A new design and additional lanes under construction on the Howard Frankland Bridge should make commuting across Tampa Bay easier, even for walkers and bicyclists.

Betty and Ed Rosenthal of Florikan, right, check ground control plants with a NASA scientist at the Veggie Lab at Kennedy Space Center.
NASA opens patent portfolio to HCC, USF students in Tampa

NASA has broadened access to its patent portfolio, enabling Tampa Bay Area entrepreneurship students at Hillsborough Community College and the University of South Florida to begin exploring how to commercialize NASA technology.

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