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Seattle Angel Conference launches new health startup competition to help educate angel investors

GeekWire

The program is modeled after the Seattle Angel Conference, which has been educating new investors and funding new companies for more than ten years, mainly through its startup competition. Apis Health Angel Conference program manager Elizabeth Cross Nichol. Apis Health Angel Conference founder John Sechrest. Apis Photo).

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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

GeekWire

NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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Google is shutting down its VR field trip app Expeditions

The Verge

The app, which offered educational VR tours, will be removed from iOS and Android app stores on June 30th, 2021. We’ve heard and recognize that immersive experiences with VR headsets are not always accessible to all learners,” writes Jennifer Holland, Google’s director of education program management. “As

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies have been responding of late by offering volunteer time off and by partnering with organizations that could benefit greatly from the added help of programs and staff time. Since then, LinkedIn has “grown into one of the major enterprise partners for Year Up,” says Audrey Rhodes Market, the Year Up program manager at LinkedIn.

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Seattle investors back Battlesnake, makers of a growing game that turns coding into competition

GeekWire

Co-founder and CEO Brad Van Vugt told GeekWire that “Battlesnake” sits at a “weird intersection between gaming and programming.” “It’s not education, we’re not teaching folks to program,” Van Vugt said. “If you want to learn to code there’s lots of ways to get there.

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Ukrainian delegation visits Seattle to learn about its life sciences cluster and plan for the future

GeekWire

These include the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the UW’s International Training and Education Center for Health, which supports Ukraine in providing services for people with HIV. Ukrainian delegates to Seattle at a visit to the Space Needle.