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Congratulating Jamie Rogers - Denver Kids Inc. Mentor of the Month

VisionLink

The VisionLink Family cannot express our extreme pride in our own Jamie Rogers for his recognition by Denver Kids, Inc. Denver Kids, Inc. is an educational organization dedicated to helping Denver Public School students. as Mentor of the Month for April 2015!

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Mentor Collective shakes off its boots to scale student support services

TechCrunch

The startup, founded by Jackson Boyar and James Lu Morrissey , began by pairing up students with mentors virtually, and over time has added more structure and management to its marketplace. To date, Mentor Collective has 165 institutional, higher-education customers, including University of Colorado Denver, Penn State and Dartmouth.

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A Silicon Valley school is using virtual escape rooms to evaluate prospective students

The Verge

With things like open houses, campus tours, and in-person interviews off the table, applicants have fewer chances to experience their prospective schools — and admissions offices have fewer chances to meet their prospective students. The sixth grade game, called “The Annual Picnic,” was designed to evaluate how a student thinks on their feet.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. The Denver Foundation. The Kresge Foundation. Kars4Kids Foundation.

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Northeast Denver Housing Center Uses Esri ArcGIS Maps to Demonstrate Housing Needs

Tech Soup

Northeast Denver Housing Center (NDHC) creates sustainable, healthy housing opportunities for underserved households in Denver, Colorado through outreach, education, and affordable housing development. NDHC employs these materials to train architecture graduate students.

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Comcast to provide Wi-Fi to low-income students through local community centers

The Verge

Comcast is launching a program to provide free Wi-Fi in community centers as part of an effort to improve internet access for students in low-income areas, the company said Thursday. Other community centers in Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC will also be included. Photo: Comcast.

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Is There a Place for AI in UX Design?

Elevation

Robert Cox interviewed Elevation as part of an undergraduate course at the University of Denver, "Writing for the Public Good," held during the Spring 2021 quarter. Students in our class have been challenged to think metacognitively and with the audience in mind to optimize the impact and reach of the writing they produce.

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