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…
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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…
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…
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.…
Englewood Codes Demo Day is Tonight
Tonight, 25 teens from Englewood Codes will demonstrate their websites at Kennedy King College. Englewood Codes is a 10 week summer program run by Demond Drummer of Teamwork Englewood. The program teaches kids not just web development, but teamwork and leadership.…
