Press, awards and what students have gone on to do.

May 8, 2024

Pinellas County students design fitness app, win Shark Tank pitch session

Coverage of the 2023–24 final, in which Ajitesh Busireddy, Leonard Seto Jr. and Ryan Qu of Palm Harbor University High School won the season with New2Fit, an AI-driven app…

May 8, 2024

Palm Harbor students win tech competition with AI-driven fitness app

Bay News 9 on the same 2023–24 final. Ajitesh Busireddy, Leonard Seto Jr. and Ryan Qu, juniors at Palm Harbor University High School, won the Next Gen Tech 360 competition…

May 8, 2024 · Video · SharkMakers

NGT360 Season 2023-24 Winners: New2Fit Pitch to Kevin Harrington

The winning pitch of the 2023–24 season. The team built New2Fit, an app for people walking into a gym for the first time, and opened on the problem rather than the product…

June 30, 2023

Register for our 3-day online course

This course ran in July 2020 and is no longer open. The listing is kept here as part of the archive. The text below is the wording from the flyer, written out so it can be read by…

June 21, 2022 · PDF · 5 pages

Awards Ceremony Season 2021-22

February 22, 2021

Next Gen Tech 360 Finalists win 2020 Congressional Awards

Proud of our season 2019-20 finalists for winning their district Congressional Award for 2020 with the products they built in the NGT360 program. As if their accomplishments with…

February 2, 2021

Quest to the Synapse Summit

NGT360 decided to add some fun into our season, we decided to have a contest for a logo and slogan to pay tribute to this season 2020-21.

October 14, 2020

Best Student Tech Program of Tampa Bay – 2016

Awarded by Tampa Bay Technology Forum. This unique Tech program is where Education and Business align to help students gain awareness and skills to real world software product…

October 12, 2020 · Video · SharkMakers

Testimonial from the 2018-19 Winners

The winning team of the 2018–19 season, interviewed on camera during the season. Asked what the best part of the program had been, they pointed at the mentors and the…

October 12, 2020 · Video · SharkMakers

Bay News 9 Interview May 2019 CONNECT IT 360

Robyn Mussler on Bay News 9 in May 2019, shortly after founding Connect-IT 360, on giving students the business and technology skills to compete and to run something of their own.

October 12, 2020 · Video · SharkMakers

2019-20 Award Ceremony

The 2019–20 awards ceremony, cut as a highlight film. There is no narration or speech in it - it is scored footage of the evening, the teams and the awards.

October 8, 2020

TBBJ-Mar 24, 2020

Robyn Mussler knew she couldn’t tell her students to create innovative solutions for real-world problems if she wasn’t willing to do the same.

October 8, 2020

TBBJ-inno on Fire Award

In the nine months since Tampa Bay Inno’s official launch, we’ve published close to 200 original stories to showcase the startups and entrepreneurs elevating Tampa Bay as a…

October 8, 2020

TBBj-inno on Fire

In the 10 months since Tampa Bay Inno’s launch at Synapse Summit, we’ve published over 220 original stories to showcase the startups and entrepreneurs elevating Tampa Bay as a…

October 8, 2020

Student entrepreneurial pitch competitions go virtual

Just as USFSP students were preparing for Ex Labs Boot Camp, a highly competitive weeklong technology accelerator, coronavirus stay-at-home regulations were upending their lives.

October 4, 2020 · Video · TEDx Talks

The Next Generation: Are You Ready? | Robyn Mussler | TEDxYouth@PalmHarbor

Robyn Mussler is the author and chair of the award-winning Next Generation Tech (NGT) program. She is an innovative IT leader, her career spans 30 years in building software…

October 4, 2020

Is Online Learning Worse Than Being in School? Majority of Teens Say Yes

While teens may often be glued to their phones for recreation, a new poll finds that a large share of them feel they learn better sitting in a classroom with their teacher.