Category: Highlights

This year, the University of Florida Innovation Station has driven growth in the number of UF engineering students seeking internships, and the pre-COVID number of companies offering internships in the Sarasota region.  Ultimately, twenty-one companies, half of which are new UF Innovation Station internship program partners, offered internships to UF engineering students.  Most importantly, the […]

During its post-election Economic Outlook event on December 4, the Economic Development Council of Sarasota presented the 14th Annual Clyde Nixon Business Leadership Award to Allen Carlson, regional director of the University of Florida Innovation Station in Sarasota. The award is given annually to an individual in Sarasota County who embodies the personal and business […]

McIntosh Middle School students enrolled in FSU’s SSTRIDE course participated in our virtual K-12 Sarasota Gator Outreach (Sarasota GO) event hosted by Dr. Furtney of Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering.  Students learned about the career path, and benefits of a degree in biomedical engineering and were walked through the Cellular Engineering Lab via […]

The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development, and Education (STRIDE) Center teamed up with Julee Breehne, K-12 Coordinator at Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s UF Innovation Station in Sarasota County, to introduce students at Booker Middle School in Sarasota County to transportation engineering. STRIDE K-12 Coordinator Ondine Wells and Breehne met with 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students in the […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida and Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, in concert with North Carolina State University, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University and UF’s Innovation Station Sarasota County, recently convened a five-session virtual summit on “Innovating Coastal Resilience.” Thought leaders and industry experts gathered online to help envision new technologies and applications, […]

New College of Florida and the University of Florida are working together to design an innovative dual degree program that would allow for the earning of a Bachelor of Arts degree in a liberal arts and science major from New College and a Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering major from UF. Students in […]

Local Teachers Get Excited about STEM Education A grant through the Department of Education (EquiPD) is in its second year and boosts UF Innovation Station’s efforts to grow the pipeline of K-12 students to engineering by expanding the pool of STEM-qualified teachers. In addition to the 55 Sarasota/Manatee teachers who signed on to participate, teachers […]

Gainesville, Florida – Sarasota County commissioners have unanimously approved extending funding, matched by UF funding, for University of Florida Innovation Station Sarasota County (UFIS-SC) through 2027. UFIS-SC was formed in 2016 and is the first extension office for the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. It was developed to strengthen the region’s innovation economy, support […]

The COVID-19 pandemic did not slow down the momentum of engineering students seeking internships this summer. A number of students from Gator Engineering at State College of Florida and from the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering will be doing internships and work-study programs with companies and other organizations in the Sarasota-Manatee County area this […]

Originally posted by WCJP. GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB)– Middle schoolers throughout Florida had a chance to experience first-hand what engineers do for society. “It is really in between middle school, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade where we’re losing a critical mass of young women who up until then have been very much interested in science, engineering, and […]