Marisa Jackels

Fargo-made app Kycker uses iBeacon for hyper-local communication

Like passing around a soccer ball, a new made-in-Fargo app called Kycker allows you to “kick” messages and photos to anyone around you within a 200 foot radius. The hyper-local…

Autonomous tractor being built in Fargo: Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part article on the autonomous tractor technology being built in Fargo. Read part 1 here. Make any tractor autonomous According to Kraig Shulz,…

Autonomous tractor being built in Fargo

Out on Zimmerman field in Minnesota, a 25,000-pound tractor named The Spirit chugs forward, reaches a corner, pivots, and heads back the opposite direction. It does this over and over,…

Our first employee moves on

It is with both sadness and excitement that we share with you that Emerging Prairie’s first employee and event planner extraordinaire, Annika Nynas, will be moving on from Emerging Prairie…

The Mobile App Art Pallet: DJ Spooky on the world of mobile apps

He came, he spun, he ran out the room quickly to catch a flight. DJ Spooky swept through Fargo last week, perhaps similarly to the way he sweeps across the…

Emerging Prairie's July in Review

This month, much of the activity revolved around one of Fargo’s biggest events of the year: TEDxFargo, held on July 23. In fact, we might even start calling August the…

WE Fest is retaining more employees with Clifton Labs wristbands

If you were planning to get into WE Fest as an employee this year and then ditch to watch the show, think again – Fargo-based software company Clifton Labs has…

TBEG grant rebrands as Innovate ND

Innovate ND is now the only way for entrepreneurs to get state funding from North Dakota. In an effort to streamline the process of getting state funding to entrepreneurs, what…

TEDxFargo 2015 rocks the house and raises the bar

Three years ago, the coordinators of TEDxFargo stood on assembled pallet wood in Ecce Art Gallery with around 100 people in the audience. Last Thursday, July 23, this year’s organizers…

PODS Game Design offers classes for young game-makers

Dave Binkard’s love for video games started with the old classics: Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt on Nintendo, Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. Then came Chrono Trigger and…