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New two-day conference brings tech, innovation to Iowa City festival
For eight years now, music lovers, artists and creatives of all sorts have gathered in Iowa City, Iowa, for one purpose: the Mission Creek Festival, an annual week-long event that features a variety of concerts, comedic performances, literary readings, film screenings, public lectures and myriad other cultural events. But this year, organizers are adding one…
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Five things you need to know about Thursday’s Omaha Event Draft
(Guest post by Dusty Reynolds) Thursday evening is Omaha’s inaugural Event Draft, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Aroma’s/402 Collective, 6051 Maple St., in Benson. Each event will receive up to $400 in grants from a $20,000 fund provided by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce to help fund tech entrepreneurship events…
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UNL Maker Space, Maker Club aim to create innovative culture on campus
Jay Carlson knows the power of interdisciplinary collaboration. Three years ago, when he was an electrical engineering undergrad at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he also was a page designer at the Daily Nebraskan. Every night, he would work with reporters, copy editors and photographers to design a visually appealing paper…