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  • Six education startups named to LEANLAB Education’s K12 Fellowship

    Six education startups named to LEANLAB Education’s K12 Fellowship

    Six education entrepreneurs developing new technologies, tools and services to enhance teaching and learning will participate in LEANLAB Education’s K12 Fellowship this year. The LEANLAB Education K12 Fellowship is an accelerator program for startup ventures focused on solving real problems within education. This year’s Cohort 5 Fellows will work with coaches and mentors from Kansas…

  • David Dugger shares his passion for tech education with high school students

    David Dugger shares his passion for tech education with high school students

    Instructor and tech professional David Dugger has a first-hand understanding of the frustrations and challenges faced by his students at the AIM Brain Exchange in downtown Omaha. Afterall, it was less than a year ago that he was living in a storage room with $70 to his name and a dead end part-time job with…

  • The Nebraska Builder Initiative is changing entrepreneurship and education

    The Nebraska Builder Initiative is changing entrepreneurship and education

    The Nebraska Builder Initiative held their first event last week at the Gallup Riverfront Campus. The event featured guest speakers from across Nebraska’s business ecosystem as well as a presentation and business launch by students from the program’s first cohort. The Nebraska Builder Initiative is designed to identify key entrepreneurial talents in students known as…

  • NewBoCo’s QuickScore simplifies grading for K-12 teachers

    NewBoCo’s QuickScore simplifies grading for K-12 teachers

    Despite the digital classroom revolution, many teachers still keep track of students’ grades by pencil and paper. The Cedar Rapids collaborative NewBoCo, which operates the Iowa Startup Accelerator, is looking to improve the process for schools with a new plugin, QuickScore. Six teams were chosen for the Iowa Startup Accelerator this year, but QuickScore wasn’t one of them. QuickScore…

  • Fremont’s Sycamore Education serves schools worldwide

    Fremont’s Sycamore Education serves schools worldwide

    Sycamore Education’s first line of code was written in 1991. “We started really small,” said Glen Ellis, founder and CEO, Sycamore Education. “I was the coder, and my wife was the salesman.” Ellis said that originally, the small team never had a plan so they ended up just doing it, a way that Ellis seems…

  • Mike Johnston marches to his own drum in the online education industry

    Mike Johnston marches to his own drum in the online education industry

    KANSAS CITY—Mike Johnston brought the beat to Big Kansas City with a live demo of just how legit a drummer he is. Not that his craft needed validation. Johnston started playing the drums when he was five, and with drumming instructors such as Pete Magadini and Steve Ferrone, he was sure to get the hang…

  • KCWiT launches program to help middle school girls explore tech

    KCWiT launches program to help middle school girls explore tech

    KANSAS CITY—As part of a continual effort to help women in technology fields, nonprofit Kansas City Women in Technology (KCWiT) created Tech sHeroes earlier this year, a program focused on educating, encouraging and empowering middle school girls to explore careers in technology.

  • Montessorium joins Co.Lab, Zynga accelerator for educational games

    Montessorium joins Co.Lab, Zynga accelerator for educational games

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D.— Montessorium, an educational game app that uses the principles of Montessori teaching, has been around for more than four years, but this month, the Sioux Falls, S.D.,-based startup is taking its games to an accelerator.

  • Pear Deck’s app helps teachers engage in real time with every student

    Pear Deck, an interactive presentation Google app for the classroom, is live worldwide. The tool has been in beta since March, with thousands of users in select school districts across the country. Now the final version is available in the Google Chrome Web Store.

  • Coding & Cupcakes connects KC moms, daughters with programming

    You might not find cupcakes at your typical user group meeting or hackathon, but at Kansas City Women in Technology’s next event, the sweet treat will be the attendee’s “coding fuel.” KCWiT invites KC-area mothers and their daughters to join them for Coding & Cupcakes, a three-hour event to teach coding and website building.