Gulf Coast MakerCon 2025

Start: Saturday, May 31, 2025 10:00AM
End: Saturday, May 31, 2025 6:00PM

Gulf Coast MakerCon 2025 is the Gulf Coast's biggest and oldest maker festival, an annual celebration of the DIY Inventive Spirit, hosted by the nonprofit Foundation for Community Driven Innovation. This year's MakerCon will be held at the Yuengling Draft Haus and Kitchen on May 31. The event will be free and open to the public, and in this beautiful new venue will offer a fun and engaging day for all! This is an outdoor event, held on the broad, shady, spacious grounds of the Draft Haus. Nonprofit and education exhibits are free. Vendor and some commercial booths for craft and hobby suppliers are also available. Guests will enjoy creative “maker” style exhibits – crafts, trades, arts, music, jewelry making, wood working, metal work, textiles, inventions, innovations, interactive exhibits and related presentations, a combat robotics tournament, drone flying demonstrations and more! Visit GulfCoastMakerCon.com to learn more and register to exhibit or attend. MakerCon is organized by the nonprofit Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, which also runs AMROC Fab Lab, Tampa Bay's only public creative capacity building space, an 8000 sq. ft. "STEM playground", as Mayor Castor once called it, where people can craft everything from clothing in our sewing program to 3D prints to competitive robotics.