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Mandy Webber presents to participants of Intrapreneur Academy seated in front of her.

NewBoCo launches Intrapreneur Academy with six teams from across the Corridor

Friday, April 13, Cedar Rapids, IA – Six teams joined NewBoCo’s inaugural Intrapreneur Academy cohort in order to spark innovative change within their organizations. “Those who engaged with our organizational innovation programs last year gave feedback that while the content was good, it was hard to implement alone when they went ‘back to the grind’,” NewBoCo Director of Innovation Mandy

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3 Iowa Startup Accelerator participants sit in a circle, talking and laughing

Four teams enter Iowa Startup Accelerator’s Spring Batch, NewBoCo announces Social Good Accelerator pilot team

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Cedar Rapids, IA, March 19, 2018 – NewBoCo celebrates its fifth year investing in Iowa’s entrepreneurial community by accepting four startups into the Iowa Startup Accelerator’s 2018 Spring Batch as well as the pilot team from its Social Good Accelerator program. Three of the teams, ActWorthy, Kho Labs, and CR Marketplace, were founded in Iowa, and

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NewBoCo Volunteer Asmaa Elkeurti works with a student on a laptop for NewBoCo's Girls Code Camp

Girls code camp returns for third year

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Girls code camp returns for third year GirlsCode++ is a day-long camp to teach girls how to code Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 February 1, 2018, Cedar Rapids, IA – NewBoCo’s girls code camp, GirlsCode++, returns for a third year to teach middle and high school girls how to code

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DeltaV Code School 2017 graduates find jobs in Cedar Rapids within two months

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 Wednesday, January 31, 2018, Cedar Rapids, IA – DeltaV Code School, Iowa’s premier adult code school, was announced November 2016, and graduated its first cohort October 2017. The next milestone to add: all of the graduates from DeltaV’s 401 course were employed within two months

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Middle School Students Create Age-Friendly Communities for Future City Iowa Regional Competition on January 20

[cs_content][cs_element_section _id=”1″][cs_element_row _id=”2″][cs_element_column _id=”3″][cs_text] Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 Cedar Rapids, IA, January 15, 2018 – Hundreds of Iowa’s middle school students will present their solutions to make cities more accessible for community members of all ages at the Future City Iowa Regional Competition at Prairie Point Middle School on Saturday, January 20. A

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Entrepreneurship, education, and innovation take the stage at NewBoCo Launch Day

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Media Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing (319) 382-5128 jessalyn@newbo.co Cedar Rapids, IA, December 7, 2017 – NewBoCo Launch Day showcased startup successes and new ventures, with pitches from Iowa Startup Accelerator’s 2017 cohort and updates from NewBoCo entrepreneurship, education, and innovation programs. “Not only does Launch Day give us the opportunity to show off

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Des Moines East High School students show adults how they use computer science

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]December 6, 2017, Des Moines, IA – Des Moines East High School, in partnership with NewBoCo, will host business representatives, state officials, and school administrators during an Hour of Code event on December 8, closing out Computer Science Education week. East High School math and computer science teacher Tim Walljasper is participating in NewBoCo’s 2017-18 Code.org

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