BarCamp Sarasota-Bradenton

Sunshine State Startups: Launch Your Florida Business | SCORE If you've been considering starting your own small business, but are unsure of how and where to begin, don't miss out on this presentation. You will be provided with step-by-step information about how to start a business in Florida

What is it Like to Work as a Robotics Engineer?

What is it Like to Work as a Robotics Engineer? (REAL-WORLD CAREER ADVICE) In this video, learn how to get a career in robotics. There are two main paths you can take to get into the robotics industry. This video explores both indus...

Hey Entrepreneurs! Check out these cool resources!

Online Courses SCORE offers free online learning: Take an on-demand course; self-paced learning provides an opportunity for you to learn valuable business skills when it works for you.

Heads up!

Will you be a junior or senior in high school next year? We have the summer opportunity for you! The Summer Career Exploration Program provides hands-on activities in a multitude of career paths offered at Manatee Technical College.

June 3-25, 2024
Monday-Thursday
1-3 p.m.

Free transportation is available from your zoned high school.

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I case you didn't know, this small business evolved into a food truck, taking their ice cream and cafe favorites on the road. Hooray for entrepreneurs!

Former Mixon Farms owners begin new stage with food truck | Your Observer Although Mixon Fruit Farms closed, life with the Mixons continues on a food truck.

Jump in the TARDIS and enjoy some Classic Doctor Who!

Classic Doctor Who Join the first 7 regenerations of The Doctor for incredible adventures through time and space. All day, every day on the Classic Doctor Who channel.

Do you know what lunar regolith is? NASA adds some color by saying. "the lunar surface is covered by a layer of unconsolidated debris called the lunar regolith..."

Well, what can you do with it, you ask? Build structures!

Pretty cool 😎 https://www.iconbuild.com/off-world-construction

2023 is almost a wrap. To recap the last year, what things did you learn that you'd like to share with others? We'll start...

How cool is that?

Hey non-profits! Check out this Excel skill building opportunity.

Know if others? Post them in the comments 🤩

📣Nonprofits, it’s time to register for our Invest In Incredible (I3) Capacity Building Workshops on EXCEL with our CFO Chris Stobaugh. Our first workshop, Excel 101 for Beginners, is on April 27 at our downtown Philanthropy Center!

Register for one workshop or all three:
📙Excel 101 for Beginners: https://bit.ly/40lchlp

📙Excel 201 for Intermediate Users: https://bit.ly/3l74lFj

📙Excel 301 for More Advanced Users: https://bit.ly/3yA27By

You’ve been using Excel in your work, now start harnessing its potential in a series of hands-on workshops. Whether you’re looking to learn the basics or become a master of Excel, this series has it all!

Much need in south Sarasota County.

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) and the State Emergency Response Team (SERT) activated the Business Damage Assessment Survey in response to Hurricane Ian. Survey responses will allow the state to expedite Hurricane Ian recovery efforts by gathering data and assessing the needs of affected businesses.

Fill out the survey at https://loom.ly/ijPVsE4

"Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips"

Billions of transistors on a single chip! How about using a beam of light only 5 strands of DNA wide to etch designs?

AMAZING STUFF!

https://youtu.be/iSVHp6CAyQ8

Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips In a Dutch factory, there’s a revolutionary chipmaking machine the whole world has come to rely on. It takes months to assemble, and only one company in the ...

Free courses from Yale University and Coursera to understand the ecological teachings and practices of religious traditions across the planet.

From the site: "These Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) explore the ecological dimensions of the world’s religions. Developed over the course of several years, they draw on a rich variety of lectures, videos, readings, and interviews with scholars, religious leaders, and environmental practitioners from around the world." https://fore.yale.edu/Resources/Yale-Coursera-Online-Courses

Are you prepared for the best game ever?

https://www.instagram.com/wearedigstudios/

Happy Star Wars Day!

I don't know why, but I'd expect to find this in Tracy Ingram's garden 🤣

A free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate rockets before you build and fly them. Woohoo! https://openrocket.info/

We secretly switched Stan Schultes PC with this $30,000 1990's computer. We also switched his coffee to Folgers 😁 https://youtu.be/gVyCjweagJM

SGI Octane: What can a $30,000 computer from the 90's do ? In the 90's one company dominated the world of 3d graphics SGI, used in industry, university science labs, and the film and tv industry. They where used to ...

This!

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

– Helen Hayes

Coming soon to a planet near you! In 2024, NASA's Europa Clipper mission will launch to investigate Jupiter's moon Europa and the Dragonfly mission, planned to launch in 2026, will aim to search for signs of life on Saturn's moon, Titan.

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-jupiter-saturn-uranus-neptune-giant.html

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune: Why our next visit to the giant planets will be so important, and just as difficult The giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are some of the most awe-inspiring in our solar system, and have great importance for space research and our comprehension of the greater universe.

The vehicle being developed with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is called Lunar Cruiser!

It's based on the idea that people eat, work, sleep and communicate with others safely in cars, and the same can be done in outer space, said Takao Sato, who heads the Lunar Cruiser project at Toyota. “We see space as an area for our once-in-a-century transformation. By going to space, we may be able to develop telecommunications and other technology that will prove valuable to human life."

https://my.xfinity.com/articles/news-science/20220128/AS--Japan-Toyota-Moon-a455

New effects pack for Paint.NET!

Kris Vandermotten's Paint.NET Effects enhances the freely available program further with effects that have been optimized and have significant speed improvements. Check it out here and get creative :)

https://www.vandermotten.be/paintdotnet

Local Teenager, Andrew Pugliese, Turns His Love of Creepy Creatures Into a Business!

Nice feature Sarasota Magazine, and thank you Sara Hand for highlighting this :)

https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2022/01/bugz-rule-sarasota

Bugz Rule Lets Kids Get Up Close and Personal With Creepy Insects A Bradenton teenager's menagerie includes eight tarantulas, five scorpions and one Madagascar hissing cockroach.

Some of you say you're no good at video games. Well I have news for you, there's still hope! ;)

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-mass-human-brain-cells-petri.html

A mass of human brain cells in a petri dish has been taught to play Pong A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Australia and the U.K. has taught a small mass of human brain cells to play the video game Pong. Their paper is available on the bioRxiv preprint server.