Kiddie tech is growing up right alongside the kids it seeks to serve, and the parents have a lot of questions to ask, reports BuzzFeed News. The Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition goes on presale today for $79 (less than the cost of some Lego kits) with child-friendly features, including answers to kid-specific questions, a […]
U.S. Cellular announced a $25,000 donation to the Boys & Girls Club of Central Iowa in an effort to support K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for students. In total, U.S. Cellular is donating $85,000 in Iowa to Boys & Girls Club. The effort is part of a $1 million total donation across […]
Ankeny-based QA Graphics and Ames-based Solvent Web are partnering to create QA Web, a new web development and design service aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The new partnership aims to offer affordable new websites to help smaller companies stand out. QA Graphics specializes in system graphics and custom marketing solutions; Solvent Web, run by […]
What started as a toilet joke may propel a team of ten middle school students to the Global Innovation Award competition in San Jose, California. Students at Oak Ridge Middle School in the Linn-Mar school district are nominated for their work developing a toilet that can store and deodorize urine to later flush fecal matter, […]
Students from four area high schools and four Iowa colleges and universities will be on display at the Drake University Olmsted Center, April 12 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The 15th annual Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research will showcase student work from Drake, Grand View University, Des Moines Area Community College and Upper […]
In 2008, David Tominsky was working in downtown Cedar Rapids, just blocks away from the Cedar River. That June, monumental river levels stopped everyone in their tracks. “The building that I worked out of – the basement was completely filled, and the water came up ten or eleven feet onto that first floor,” Tominsky, now […]
During a tour of a workforce training program in Waukee, presidential adviser Ivanka Trump said the administration remains committed to infrastructure improvements, including workforce development and wider rural access to broadband service. Those are three top priorities of many Iowa business groups and politicians. Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, said she wanted to visit […]
1 Million Cups organizer Ben McDougal interviews Gov. Kim Reynolds during her first appearance at the weekly Des Moines gathering. Photo by Kate Hayden For the first fifteen to twenty minutes, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds stood at the lecturn addressing a room of more than 50 during Wednesday’s 1 Million Cups meeting in the Science […]
The Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce is now accepting Bitcoin payments for membership dues. Chamber President Kim Casko made the surprise announcement on Tuesday morning at Iowa City’s TechBrew meeting, a monthly event hosted by the Technology Association of Iowa. The chamber accepted its first Bitcoin payment on Friday, Casko said. “Cryptocurrency is becoming […]
Finding ways to attract high school students to a trades career is a tough nut to crack for industry advocates. At a student careers fair in Boone on Tuesday, Associated Builders and Contractors of Iowa (ABC for short) showcased a new piece of the toolkit: a virtual reality-enabled demonstration trailer. Measuring in at about 36 […]