Imagine a STEAM festival that attracted close to five times the number of attendees that could fit in the University of Phoenix Cardinal stadium. The Arizona SciTech Festival, a statewide celebration of STEAM that ran February to March of this year, released their report on the positive impact the Festival had on the community. In collaboration with over … Read more
Inventors from across the Valley gathered over the weekend in downtown Mesa for the second annual Southwest Maker Fest. Exhibitors displayed robotics, artistic pieces and more for everyone to come and enjoy. The event has doubled in size and aims to enhance Arizona’s “maker” culture where inventors can gather and collaborate, according to Thomas Sollars, … Read more
Photo contribution by Vianka Villa Kimberly Bryant spent years in the corporate world as a software engineer climbing up the ranks in a field where very few women of color, and women in general, held a seat in the boardroom. In an interview with Oprah, Bryant talked about her first engineering job where her manager (who … Read more
Geeks galore are celebrating the 27th anniversary of National Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday. Today also has special significance as the date and time 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 a.m. and p.m., coincides with the first 10 digits of π. While the pi community celebrates with slices of pie and festivals around the Valley, there is a rumbling within the mathematic … Read more
Today is Happy 3.14 Day or Pi Day, not to be confused with Pie Day in January-though you might take in a slice of the circle to celebrate. This international day of celebration, now in its 26th year, was started at the San Francisco Exploratorium by physicist Larry Shaw commemorating the mathematical constant and observed … Read more
It all started with a cup of coffee. Technology consultant and Social Media AZ founder Fred von Graf had been thinking of starting an incubator for technology companies for a while. He wanted to provide a place where people could find the resources and mentorship they needed to turn their ideas into realities. One day, … Read more