Welcome toMaker Sessions & Special Activities

Tampa Bay’s 5th Annual Celebration of the DIY Inventive Spirit

April 9th - 10am-5pm Florida State Fairgrounds,

Special Events Center

With gratitude to all our remarkable volunteers and partners for helping Make our Day!

Produced by Eureka! Factory with these fine Partners & Sponsors – EurekaFactory.net

Stage Area Alligator Zone

10:30am A Conversation with inventor Ron Klein

11:00am Product Show & Tell with BioScanR Start Up founder, Tracy Ingram

SeedRegion111:30am How the Tampa Bay Region Can Finance Its Own Economic Development, with Kyle Nurminen - SeedRegion1 is a voluntary Regional Community Development Initiative designed to demonstrate the power of Strategic Doing through a 3.0 Leadership mentality

Rocket3D1:00pm How to design 3D printers - a brief overview, with 14 year old Rocket Burns - At first glance, trying to design a 3D printer from scratch can appear to be a complicated endeavor. In reality, it’s just like baking a cake. Using the analogy of baking a cake, this talk will break down the core elements of 3D printer design (including the framework, actuation, extrusion system, and software) into manageable bite-sized pieces.

5th Annual Makerspace UnConference1:45pm Meet Your Local Makerspaces, led by Eureka! Factory – Find out what’s new, what’s up and how you can get involved!

MakerCon Costume Plank Walk!3:00pm Strut your DIY stuff in your best handmade costume. Entries judged in two categories: Steampunk & Maker MakerMashup (everything else!) – Register at Info Booth (#21) by noon – Awards at 4pm

Door Prize Giveaways Start at 4:15pm

Best Booth Awards5:00pm

Scheduled Booth PresentationsTampa Drones Meetup Group -The FPV Experience: Through The Pilot’s Eye (Booth 65)Demonstration area will feature a FPV flight simulator where participants can learn about the technology used, don a pair of fpv goggles and fly a drone in a simulator.

• 10am to 4pm (ongoing): FPV Experience • 12pm -1pm UAV Demonstration

Tobusto LLC & Making STEAM Fun: STEAM in Our Everyday Lives - 10 am and 2 pm (Booth 1)Enjoy a presentation on practical applications of STEAM along with ways to truly understand and embrace it. Learn how to make STEAM work for you.

Look for additional presentations at exhibitor booths.

SPECIAL THANKS TOSonic Print For donation of fantastic printing services!

MityMo Creative For Program Design

Studio 7 Communications For Promotional Support

ROBOT League of Tampa Bay For FIRST Tech Challenge Support

Middleton High School Robotics For FIRST Robotics Competition Support

e-Smart Recycling For hosting Deconstruction Zone

Armada Games For hosting Gaming Expo

Our Makers

1 Tobusto Making STEAM Fun*2 Makerspaces.com3 TannerPatent.com*4 e-NABLE5 DecaTxt, Man-Machine Interface6 Voltee, the Battery Saver*7 Tangible Labs*8 FreeFab 3D9 MakerVenture* 10 AlligatorZone 11 Ron Klein, Alligator Zone12 BioScanR, Alligator Zone 13 Code For Tampa Bay Brigade14 MakerCon Sponsor Table**15 Pedicure Pedestal*16 Modular Grab Bars17 Pad Go Round*18 Berkeley Prep’s 5th Grade Entrepreneurs*19 & 20 Eureka Factory** Instructables Showcase21 Event Info Booth22 Foundry @ Land O’ Lakes Library23 Benito Middle School MakerSpace24 Palm Harbor Library’s MakerSpace25 The Hive @ Tampa-Hillsborough County Public

Library26 Rocket3D27 Miles Space CubeQuest Challenger28 LEGO Mindstorms SUMO Bots, Fun with Bots*29 Tampa Hackerspace30 Tampa Bay Inventors Council31 Suncoast Makers32 Pete Lefferson - Serial Inventor

33 SBDC at Hillsborough County34 Global NexGen Solutions35 SeedRegion136 3D Volumetric Display37 Innovation Lab [Makerspace @ SPC]38 Frontier Fios**39 PMK Woodworking*40 Sci Chic*41 Make and Take Soap42 Ind Design43 Sunny Spaces Art Studios*44 Frontier Furs*45 Gordy’s Glass Creations*46 Unique Rabbit*47 Gypsy’s Weavings*48 Marcus Torres Artwork49 Fireblade Comics*50 & 51 Dawn’s Leather Treasures*52 ErickaLoveLeigh Bowtie designs*5354 Penciledinart*Pami Pocket*55 Upcycled Studio*56 Gimme Stuff*57 Sir Bentley Freckles & Associates Art58 Nepchune’s Noise Circus59 Simply Fun*60 The Mentagy Puzzle*61 ASME@USF62 Independent Maker Space Program63 HackerBoxes*64 BatteryBlocs*

65& 66 Tampa Drones Meetup Group67 Coaster Modeling Enthusiasts of Florida68 NXP/AVNET**69 ReDDD Retractable Gutter Installation70 USF Students in STEAM71 Electrathon of Tampa Bay72 FIRST Youth RoboticsComBot Arena SE COMBOT CHAMPIONSHIP

De-con Zone ScrapOnSpot De-Construction Zone, e-SmartRecycling**

FIRST area FRC Team 5276 Edgar Allan Ohms FRC Team 4769 Nerdvana FRC Team 3627 Jungle Robotics FRC Team 5842 Royal Robotics FRC Team 1369 Minotaur FTC Team 3846 Maelstrom FTC Team 7203 KNO3 FTC Team 2845 Team Duct Tape FLL Team Land O’Lakes Library

Steel Pan Band Show Steelers Steel Pan Band, Tampa Music School

Game Zone Armada Games** Gaming Expo Gamers On The Edge

Laser Tag Dr. Who’s Wars Mashup Laser Tag*

Track Area Electrathon of Tampa Bay Races

Outside West Florida Artist Blacksmiths Association

Outside West Beyond Sustainability, with We Grow from Here

Outside West Napolitanos Mobile Wood Fire Oven

Outside West Amateur “Ham” Radio, Emergency Services ARES/RACES

*Vendor – Please visit & shop!**Event Partner/Sponsor – Thank you!

Gate Admissions: $16/adult, $15/senior, $13/child, sales tax is included in the price. A small processing fee is added for credit card purchases. Children under 5 are free. Fairgrounds parking is $6. Dining available at onsite concessions.

*Schedule and Makers subject to change, although we’ll try very hard not to.