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Listening to teachers to support students impacted by COVID-19 

Candid

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has helped fund more than $55 million over 10 years through a donation match for teachers’ crowdfunding projects on DonorsChoose. Since 2020, DonorsChoose has partnered with 10 states to allocate a total of $100 million in ESSER funding to classrooms.

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Tesla will build Cybertruck factory in Austin, Texas

The Verge

The company was also considering Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Musk said Tesla would “strongly consider” it for future projects. It will be the company’s fourth factory in the US, following the vehicle factory in California, battery factory in Nevada, and solar factory in New York. It’s going to basically be an ecological paradise.

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Tesla faces criticism of Elon Musk in bid to bring Cybertruck factory to Texas

The Verge

About 45 residents of Austin and the surrounding area spoke about the factory deal on Tuesday at a virtual public meeting held by the Travis County Commissioners Court , the policy-making and administrative arm of the local government. The tax rebates being discussed in Texas are, to date, far less significant than the $1.3

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Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test

The Verge

The test took place on Sunday afternoon at the company’s DevLoop test track in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Virgin Hyperloop projects that with enough track it can eventually get up to 670 mph — but the company’s record to date is 240 mph, which it hit in 2017. It’ll be a bit short,” Giegel said before the test. An earthquake?

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Ford nabs $884 million incentive package for EV ‘mega campus’

The Verge

Ford itself has committed to spending more than $5 billion on the Tennessee project with South Korean battery company SK Innovation, which it calls “Blue Oval City.” Lastly, $745,100 will go toward starting a governing body called the “Megasite Authority of West Tennessee.” Tennessee says it expects the project to generate $22.4

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not in the Nevada desert, but in huge indoor spaces in pup tents. (In The TechSoup Global Network , NetSquared, GuideStar International, and NGOsource projects facilitate philanthropic support, data transparency and shared innovation around the world. How does 11K gb connection speed sound to you? Like Burning Man , people camp.

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It’s not your imagination — that vaccination website really is crawling along

The Verge

Nevada’s state vaccine site was the slowest to load, taking 15.7 The situation is reminiscent of other times government organizations have been tasked with building out essential online infrastructure, like the rollout of healthcare.gov. seconds to fully load in comparison to the fastest (Puerto Rico) at 1.4 Image: The Markup.