Education
TeacherSpark brings teachers together to share ideas and set off classroom innovation
By Austin Gerth
A small cohort of North Dakota teachers are hoping to foster education innovation with an app that marries the structure of dating apps to a professional development focus. The app,…
Jesse Riley teaches STEM and environmental stewardship while raising money for schools with SongBird Creations
By Austin Gerth
SongBird Creations is putting an environmental spin on school fundraising. The start-up partners with schools to help students raise funds for STEM-oriented projects. How the process works is schools partner…
30+ Internships Announced at 1 Million Cups
By Darby Njos
It’s that time of year again – today was Intern Day at 1 Million Cups! In addition to having our entrepreneur speaker, we held an internship event where local companies…
Start-Up Sparks STEM Interest with Robotics
By Brent McNeal
In 2016, Ryan Swanson started COR Robotics to promote STEM careers by sparking an interest in students through summer camps. The first summer COR Robotics held 7 summer camps, and…
Minneapolis Start-up is Igniting Classroom Discussion Worldwide
By Brent McNeal
Over 45 million seconds of video was recorded and shared in January 2017 on the Flipgrid video-based platform. Five years prior, Flipgrid was just a weekend project put together by…