As part of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Week activities, SBA Deputy Administrator William Briggs will visit Iowa. Briggs is coming to Iowa May 4 to visit Percival Scientific in Perry, which designs and manufactures custom research environmental growth chambers for universities, colleges, government institutions, and businesses…
At the Iowa AI Convening event Monday at the Science Center of Iowa, government officials, business representatives, educators and nonprofits gathered to explore how artificial intelligence is shaping learning, workforce development and innovation across Iowa. In the convening’s opening remarks, Justin Lewis, executive director of the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory…
Bozz Prints, a gift shop in Valley Junction in West Des Moines, is seeking vendors for a new dedicated pop-up space in its shop. The area could be used for weekend pop-ups, Thursday nights during the Valley Junction Farmers Market or testing a new idea in a retail space. “Makers,…
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Iowa District Office has announced two entrepreneurs from Emmetsburg as the Iowa Small Business Persons of the Year. The SBA is recognizing Groom Curriculum’s Sierra Elbert, founder and president, and Patricia Pierce, vice president and managing educational director. Groom Curriculum is the first standardized, college-accredited…
Inside the new Des Moines University Regional Simulation Center, which provides simulation technology and training spaces for the region’s professional and academic health care programs, there is what organizers call a “House of Horrors.” It is a simulated home health care catastrophe. Students are tasked with entering this mock-up of…
On Feb. 19, the Morningside Arnold Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development held the first annual Northwest Iowa Pitch Challenge, with 14 student teams competing for $2,750 in total prize money. A total of 37 students from Morningside University, Dordt University and Buena Vista University competed. The prize money was…
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program announced its 15th cohort in Iowa, with 39 small business owners from across the state participating. Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, which is administered by Des Moines Area Community College in Iowa, is offered at no cost to small business owners and…
The University of Iowa’s DesignDash program will expand internationally for the first time in March, bringing its innovation-focused learning model to Lisbon, Portugal. Led by Dawn Bowlus, director of the Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship, the program will introduce approximately 30 medical students at Católica Medical School to design thinking…
In as early as the 1960s, top thinkers were predicting machines would take over a person’s work. That’s according to the Science Center of Iowa’s newest traveling exhibit, “Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine.” The interactive exhibit will be on display through April 26. “Machines will be capable, within…
Technology leaders encouraged Iowa’s business and tech community to talk with lawmakers about artificial intelligence policy at the Technology Association of Iowa’s AI Public Policy Forum and legislative reception held Feb. 4 in Des Moines. “Your constitutional right is to talk to your legislators, voice your opinion,” said Jennifer G….
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