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Hudl gifts $500K to UNL Raikes School for annual scholarships
LINCOLN—Hudl continues to invest in its backyard. After recently opening its new Omaha office—to pair with its Lincoln headquarters—the sports video company has gifted $500,000 to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Raikes School of Computer Science and Management.
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Two UNL schools debut design thinking course for first-year students
No one seems to remember exactly how it happened. They know it started with a Silicon Prairie News story about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management last December. There was some talk around the College of Architecture, an e-mail from interim dean …
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UNL students’ startup helps charities and nonprofits through coupons
Two years ago when James Verhoeff and Zach Christensen went on a double date with some friends, the pair realized they had forgotten the coupons they planned on using …
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Black Girls Code founder delivers important message at Raikes School
Black Girls Code: a bold name for a bold organization. Kimberly Bryant founded the San Francisco-based nonprofit last year with a mission to close the gap of women and people of color in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) fields. She is getting young girls interested in technology by introducing them to programming. After a successful…
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UNL’s Raikes School looks toward “design thinking” in its third iteration
Last year, the director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management told us that, over the past decade, the focus of many Raikes students has shifted from landing a job with a West Coast tech giant to staying in the Midwest and working for local startups. …
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Raikes School, Hudl welcome Bus Tour to talk power of Open Internet
Heads turned and necks craned Friday afternoon as the blue and red bus and souped-up hot rod rumbled through the streets of Lincoln and onto the campus of the University of Nebraska. In a purely superficial sense, the Internet 2012 Bus Tour had achieved one of its primary objectives — getting people to take notice…
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Raikes School-born Vestn aims to add ‘portable value’ to education
The idea for Vestn — a “tool for providing portable value in education, personal development, and personal marketing” — started with co-founder Conner Dana’s search for some help with a college class project. As a junior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in early 2011, he figured he could find a fellow student to do some…
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Raikes School students unveil fruits of yearlong Design Studio projects
On Friday, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Raikes School held its annual Design Studio showcase, where juniors and seniors presented the yearlong projects they completed in partnership with real clients. Here’s a bit about each of this year’s projects, and a sampling of what the students have learned since August: Nelnet | Junior Alec Johnson, a…
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Software exec tells Raikes School students to ask courageous questions
Before the Raikes School’s Design Studio Showcase on Friday afternoon on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Doug Burgum, the former CEO and chairman of Great Plains Software and a former senior VP at Microsoft, delivered a speech. “Doug was a special leader in our industry,” said the school’s namesake, Jeff Raikes, who helped…
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Tom Osborne, two ex-Microsoft execs and an astronaut walk into a bar…
Today, one of the men delivered the keynote speech at an event hosted by the school named after the other man. And, for the most part, Doug Burgum and Jeff Raikes conducted themselves with the sort of decorum expected of a couple of former high-ranking Microsoft executives. But on Thursday night, Burgum and Raikes more…