The State College of Florida (SCF) is an educational institution, whose 10-acre Lakewood Ranch Campus is located on Professional Parkway in Sarasota. The school offers various types of bachelors and associates degree programs and both credit and noncredit classes. It features a 30,000-sqare-foot Center for Innovation & Technology, which includes flexible meeting rooms and technology-equipped classrooms that make it popular as a training and seminar site for businesses and non-profit organizations. The campus also includes a two-story, 42,000-square-foot educational building that houses nursing, health, education and SCF’s new Energy Technology Management programs. The center is SCF's first green certified building.
Florida Ever-Glides Inc. has been offering Segway tours in Sarasota for over five years. Located in the artistic Rosemary District of Sarasota, it offers scenic tours of historical downtown Sarasota, the bay front, as well as cultural points of interest throughout the downtown area. With more than six tours per day there's no better way to experience the rich history, beautiful architecture and phenomenal climate of downtown Sarasota.