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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

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The Geeks Give Back category is presented again this year by BECU. Special thanks to Astound Business Solutions , the presenting sponsor of the 2024 GeekWire Awards. The half-day program runs for four weeks in the summer and is virtual so that it can reach a larger geographical area, including rural areas of Washington state.

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Junior Geek of the Month: Heven Ambachew uses tech to pursue her passion around social justice

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Three years later, the high school graduate is doing her own teaching for the nonprofit. Ambachew is GeekWire’s Junior Geek of the Month for July, a monthly honor presented by Northern Trust , which recognizes talented young innovators, creators and entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest. Ambachew, of SeaTac, Wash., GOKiC screen grab).

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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

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Vote here or below in this GeekWire Awards category, which is presented by Baird. Rec Room , the virtual reality community and gaming platform, a mainstay of VR and mixed reality platforms including the Meta Quest and, more recently, the Apple Vision Pro. The company in 2023 announced a $52.5 Create your own user feedback survey

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GeekWire Awards 2021: Geeks Give Back celebrates groups that better our community

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That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. iUrban Teen.

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14 organizations that support LGBTQ+ tech workers

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LGBTQ in Technology Slack The LGBTQ in Technology Slack is a safe space for LGBTQ+ people in tech to chat, support one another, and connect virtually over a Slack channel. The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad

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” Embracing the widespread surge in awareness over racial injustice triggered by last month’s death of George Floyd has presented another leadership challenge. “I Another project is with a virtual reality company, designing the equipment worn for VR experiences. Your preferred social network? How do you run meetings?

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

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Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.