In 2019, the team moved to the Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center (AMRoC) Fab Lab, in Tampa. A program of the nonprofit Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, whose members had long mentored the team.  The Ohms’ continues its legacy of public accessibility, providing inclusive opportunities for more youth to become involved in FIRST Robotics Competition.

Team 5276 is sponsored by Symbotic, Lockheed Martin, Florida High Tech Corridor, Bay Area Manufacturers Association, SOFWERX, Analog Devices, Suncoast Credit Union, Gene Haas Foundation, Consumers Energy, Certus Corp,  NeuroEM, FCDI and AMRoC Fab Lab.

You can see the Edgar Allan Ohms try to score forevermore on Nov. 2 & 3 during the ROBOTICON 2024 Off-Season tournament Nov. 2 & 3 at University Mall!

Fun team fact: Royal’s founder, Sam McAmis is the designer and captain of BattleBots team Gruff.

Royal Robotics is sponsored by Octopus Rift, Pasco Education Foundation, Richey Suncoast Theater, TriNu Powder Coating, Suncoast Federal Credit Union, and Geographic Solutions.

These purple-robed roboticists will be showcasing their engineering skills on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2 & 3, during the ROBOTICON Off-Season event, free and open to the public at University Mall, from 11 am to 5 pm each day.

Exploding Bacon – now in its 20th Season! – is a diverse team of 44 students from 14 schools across 5 counties, including public, private, and homeschooled students. We lead two international outreach programs: #FIRSTLikeAGirl and Spark Science Kits, spreading STEM worldwide. Our bright, colorful robots are always easy to find on the field.

Team 1902 is sponsored by the Department of Defense, NBCUniversal/Comcast, Rockwell Automation, Novalis, Gene Haas, Lockheed Martin, and SIM Central Florida.

Watch these pigs fly at the ROBOTICON off-season this weekend, November 2 & 3, at University Mall, from 11 am to 5 pm each day. The event is free and open to the public!

MECO Robotics is a community team located in the underserved community of Bithlo, Florida. Our close-knit team teaches students engineering and programming, offers real-life applications of professional and life skills, and fosters a supportive family environment for our small team.

A MECO Fun Fact: Our entire build space is 189 square feet!

MECO is sponsored by Orange County Academy, Botcats team 3653, DOD STEM, and Leidos.

Head out to the ROBOTICON off-season this weekend, November 2 & 3, at University Mall, to see MECO and all the other FIRST Robotics Competition teams in action from 11 am to 5 pm each day.  The event is free and open to the public!

FIRST® Team 79 Krunch (a.k.a. “The Interact Club of Krunch Robotics”) is more than just a group of students, mentors, and volunteers who meet to build a robot. We are a family that strives to take care of its community while working on common goals as an award-winning FIRST® FRC Robotics Team.

Team 79 is ranked among the Top 5 Interact Clubs of over 11000 worldwide

The team is sponsored by Honeywell, East Lake Rotary Sunrise, Robotics Technical Education Foundation.

You can see Krunch in action on November 2 & 3 at the 12th annual ROBOTICON off-season tournament!

Having been around a while, the team can lay claim to some fun stats, like having received all the Machine, Creativity, & Innovation Awards possible in the FIRST Robotics Competition.

The team is sponsored by Motorola Solutions Foundation, John Deere, Boeing, and Gene Haas Foundation, and you can see them in action on November 2 & 3 at the 12th annual ROBOTICON off-season tournament!

BBR8RS started in 2013 slowly, making it as a Rookie to the World competition. After a few tough years, we have skyrocketed as to one of the more competitive FRC teams in Florida  We are 50% girls and love our Star Wars!!

The team is sponsored by NASA STEM, during their bid to the FRC Championship in 2023, and by Phishbyte 2023 2024.

You can read more about the team’s past season here.

You can see the BBR8RS in action at the ROBOTICON off-season tournament at University Mall in Tampa on Nov. 2 & 3 from 11 am to 5 pm each day!

Founded in 2004, Middleton High School’s robotics programs are making their comeback after COVID.  Over thirty students from different magnet programs all around Tampa make up  FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1369,  Minotaur.  Team sponsors include National Gypsum, Google, and the Bay Area Manufacturers Association.

You can see this great team in action at the ROBOTICON off-season tournament at University Mall in Tampa on Nov. 2 & 3 from 11 am to 5 pm each day!

The event is free and open to the public and runs the entire month of October and into the first weekend of November, as a Manufacturing Month event.  All events occur at AMRoC Fab Lab and University Mall (2200 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33612) in Tampa, where AMRoC is located.

Here’s the schedule so far:

• Fri Oct 4 – Look for our virtual event kicking off ROBOTICON 2024 and introducing Going Places with Manufacturing Day, in partnership with Scoutlier
• Sat Oct 5 – Combat tournament
• Sat. Oct 12 – REC Foundation Aerial Drone Competition plus our first “Girl Powered” Workshop
• Sat. Oct 19 – VEX V5 tournament and VEX U Skills Challenges
• Sat. October 26 – FIRST Tech Challenge Build and Practice Day
• Sat. and Sun., Nov 2 & 3  – FIRST Robotics Competition Off-Season

We’re also hosting an Alumni Social and a Volunteer & Sponsor Social during the event month,as well as a Career and College Expo, workshops and other special events throughout ROBOTICON 2024.

Registration for robotics and drone teams can be found on our main page and the Robot Games pages.

Visit our Volunteer page for ways you can help during the event, and our Sponsorship page to see how your company or organization can support our next generation of science and tech leaders!

ROBOTICON featured six different competitions, with 30 hours of livestreamed content.  Over 50 volunteers helped run ROBOTICON throughout October, including dozens of University of South Florida College of Education students in Professor Stephanie Arthur’s STEM Integration class, who used the opportunity to explore informal STEM education in action.

Event Results & Media

You can find a full list of award winners across all programs on our Event Results page. Event photos can be found at the ROBOTICON Photo Gallery, with individual albums for each event weekend.

Our ROBOTICON 2023 logo which appeared on our volunteer shirts and event materials, was designed by Vicky Gonzalez, AMRoC Fab Lab Operations Manager and an illustrator by trade.  You can get your own shirts and other ROBOTICON 2023 swag in the AMRoC Threadless Shop and help support future events in the process.

Thank You ROBOTICON Sponsors and Community Partners!

ROBOTICON is made possible with the generous support of our Event Sponsors including the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, AMRoC Fab Lab, the City of Temple Terrace, Sensible Micro, PLUGHITZ Corp, the Florida High Tech Corridor, SOFWERX, Bay Area Manufacturers Association, Scoutlier,  with in-kind support from RD Management and Soaring City Innovation Partnership and other great community partners.

We enjoyed a special visit from Kettering University at this year’s event, and appreciated Kettering Robotics Center coordinate Kimberly Shumaker and SOFWERX STEM Program Manager Amanda Roark pitching in as volunteer judges during our VRC event.

Special thanks to Ora Tanner of Black Unicorn Education for some great presentations for students on Artificial Intelligence.  Participants also learned about opportunities at Kettering University and the University of South Florida, and got a great look at effective brainstorming from SOFWERX.

We’re grateful to all the amazing ROBOTICON sponsors and volunteers who come together to support the event each year.  Their support helps participants and the general public see firsthand the power of project-based learning and the “productive struggle”  of competitive STEM programs that exercise grit and resilience as students take on the problem-solving challenges they’re presented with each year.  The majority of students involved in these programs pursue careers in STEM fields or related businesses, and return as mentors for future generations of students – and as volunteers at ROBOTICON!

You can learn more about the competitive STEM education programs seen at ROBOTICON on our Education page, where you can also learn how to get involved locally.

We’ll see you back at ROBOTICON 2024 in the fall!