We’ll be live streaming tonight’s presentation from the Knight Foundation on their latest News Challenge. This year’s challenge will focus on harnessing the power of health data.
We’ll start our coverage at 4:00pm CST
Month: September 2013
Behind the scenes of the Go2School App
As a new school year begins in Chicago, there’s an app to help parents find directions to their new school called – appropriately enough – Go To School!
The app was built by Tom Kompare who initially wanted an easy way to determine when he needed to leave to get his daughter to school. When CPS announced that they intended to close a great number of schools, it added an extra impetus to create a tool to help parents find ways to get their kids to new schools.
STEM Education: Prosser Advanced Technology Group
With the return of school, there’s also the return of an innovative program at Prosser Career Academy: The Advanced Technology Group.
The ATG started in 2007 to give students hands on experience with computers and information technology. At first, the program was simply fixing printers – but now the program has grown to include programming, robotics, sound equipment, and computer networking.
Hack Night Live: Go To School and CPS Data
Live stream will start at 6:00pm
Data Science Fellowship for Social Good Demos
This summer thirty-six data scientists from across the country to work on social good projects in Chicago. The Data Science for Social Good fellowship was led by Obama for America’s Chief Data Science Rayid Ghani and the University of Chicago’s Computational Institute. The fellowship was funded by a donation from Eric and Wendy Schmidt.
During the course of the summer, the fellows formed into teams that worked on 11 different projects. The DSSG team stopped by the OpenGov Hack Night to talk about the achievements made over the summer.
Englewood Codes Demo Day Storify
On Thursday, the Englewood Codes program had their first demo day where 25 students showed off their hard work. Smart Chicago was proud to be the demo day sponsor and we look forward to more great work from Englewood students.
Here’s a Storify we’ve put together around demo day.
