Category: Education

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Growth is an epic ride!

NewBoCo and Iowa Startup Accelerator are my first nonprofit adventure. Having founded Geonetric in 1999, I remember the thrill of building something new and the euphoria of finding traction and things that work. And then, the tug of the thing taking off as it grows and holding it together as

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The Spring of 7 Summits

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/2″][text_output] An industry expert gives feedback during a presentation at the Education Innovation Summit. [/text_output][blockquote cite=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]”I walked away with far more reliable feedback, resources, and ideas than at a 1 Million Cups or InnovateHER because everyone there was in my

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NewBoCo Honored for the BIG Gift at the BIGGYs

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output] NewBoCo Honored for the BIG Gift at the BIGGYs Good evening! My name is George Elossais, and I’m a graduating second-year student at Iowa BIG. My peers and I work out of the Vault Coworking & Collaboration Space, tackling real initiatives with real community partners. My experience in

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Education Innovation Summit

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]Our seventh and final Innovation Summit this Spring is Friday, May 13. The event brings together education-related startups, investors, corporate leaders in standardized testing and publishing and textbooks, and industry experts from secondary and higher education. The summit features startup pitches, a reverse pitch from corporate innovators,

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Gearing up for tech and entrepreneur-focused summer camp series for kids – and more!

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output] Gearing up for tech and entrepreneur-focused summer camp series for kids – and more! At ISA’s Launch Day in November, we announced that in 2016 we’d be aggressively growing several of our programs, including tech training for kids through our Imagination Iowa initiative. Until now, that

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Support Imagination Iowa this Giving Tuesday (or any Tuesday)

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]This Giving Tuesday in honor of Computer Science Education Week, Iowa Startup Accelerator is asking our community of supporters to donate to Imagination Iowa. Wait, what’s Imagination Iowa? I thought that Iowa Startup Accelerator was a program to help launch successful startups. The 90-day accelerator program is

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Connections Crop Up with Homegrown Talent

George Elossais is talented. He flies drones, photographs events, shoots and edits video, and interns for ISA. This summer, we added him to our staff as our Data Systems Intern. He’s working with our CRM systems to more centrally and seamlessly connect us to our growing network of accelerator teams,

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