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[Editor’s Note: Due to confidentiality purposes, this article was pulled from the website after an earlier publication. The Iowa Accelerator Program is now over, but we wanted to re-publish to…

Kayla Abramowitz is 13 years old. A good chunk of those thirteen years have been spent in the hospital. Between her having Crohn’s disease and juvenile arthritis and her younger…

If there’s one word that comes to mind when looking back on this month it’s this: Whew. What a month. Let’s backpedal a bit, shall we, to see what went…

It’s Genius Hour in Kayla Delzer’s second grade classroom at Westside Elementary. A group of girls huddle around an iPad, dragging and dropping images into a collage. To the left,…

Those who know Drew Spooner aren’t likely to forget him anytime soon. Ask them to describe the 23-year-old Fargo native, and the responses vary across the board – brilliant, funny,…

There’s a mantra heard often around Emerging Prairie’s offices. It’s something our co-founder, Greg Tehven likes to say: “If a tree is planted and the community doesn’t want it, they…

“Who here doesn’t have peanut butter in their kitchen?” asks Jeremiah Utecht from the stage at 1 Million Cups Fargo, on June 17. “And is it because you have a…

Fargo’s tech startup scene is growing, no doubt about it, but the city is also home to some mega-giants in the tech industry that are also seeing some growth. Recently,…

An engineering team out of North Dakota State University landed one of ten inaugral OZY Genius awards with their design for a more affordable 3D printed prosthetic arm. Their design,…

From being crowned homecoming king at Conocordia College to breaking Guinness World Records for most pancakes served in a given time (35,000 in 8 hours), Arday Ardayfio has no shortage…