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SketchCamp offers opportunity to learn “common tool” Saturday
If you can write your name with a pen, pencil or marker, you can sketch, or so say the organizers of SketchCamp Des Moines on Saturday. With an aim to empower attendees to discover their sketching ability and to better think through things visually, Design+Tech and AIGA Iowa are teaming up to hold the one-day…
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Thanks to the Thinc Iowa community for helping raise the bar
Some observers of college sports will tell you that athletes improve the most between their freshman and sophomore year. While I’m no coach, I believe that theory has to do with the idea that the initial year sets your baseline. After seeing how your particular skills and ability fit into the new environment, you take…
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Search engine for city council agendas wins second Hack Omaha
Better Agendas, a search engine for Omaha City Council agendas, won the programming competition Hack Omaha Saturday on the campus of Metropolitan Community College. “Our team focused on making Omaha’s city council agendas more usable,” Better Agenda’s Matt Steele said in an email interview Monday. “The agendas currently are stored in PDF format, which doesn’t…
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Kauffman taking applications through Sunday for next Demo Day
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation will host its second Startup@Kauffman Demo Day on Nov. 12, and startups from the Kansas City area are invited to submit applications through Sunday to participate in the pitch session. Held in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week, which runs Nov. 12-18, Demo Day will provide startups an opportunity to present…