Honors students frequently get together to take full advantage of on- and off-campus activities and build community whenever possible. The past couple of weeks, they were able to take a break from preparing for final exams and writing papers by visiting UT’s Fab Lab and the Tampa Aquarium.
The FabLab is a “maker’s space.” Here’s how they describe themselves: “The Fab Lab, a digital fabrication lab inside R.K. Bailey Art Studios, offers an architecturally sophisticated, technologically advanced space for students in the arts. The Fab Lab focuses on entrepreneurs and gives the students, as well as faculty, the opportunity to turn their ideas and dreams into prototypes and products. The imaginative and aesthetically focused spaces create an ideal environment for art and design majors to foster creativity and innovation.”
The Aquarium, located in Channelside, boasts a lush mangrove tunnel, native fish, river otters, and alligators are in Wetlands of Florida habitat and a 500,000-gallon panoramic Coral Reef Gallery that is home to impressive sharks, stingrays, sea turtles, barracudas, and more. What’s more is that it’s only a trolley-ride from campus.