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How local technology businesses are pushing forward STEM education
Odyssey of the Mind is a decades-old after-school design and building competition that still can get kids excited. The students behind ‘Team ?’ say it’s better than school. Inside a bright blue wood...
View ArticleSocial business: how this company defines its new practice
What do you call a company that has engagement built into every level of its staffing? One Delaware marketing agency is using ‘social business’ and is building out a team to focus on those clients with...
View ArticleData Viz Wars: why you should leave ‘breadcrumbs’ in your design
The designers and developers had one hour to create compelling stories from raw data through informational graphics. The event, held at WHYY and run by Plymouth Meeting consulting firm Acumen...
View ArticlePenn’s edtech incubator EDSi graduates first class of 3 startups
The Education Design Studio, Inc., an edtech incubator run in collaboration with the Penn Graduate School of Education, graduated its first class last month and marked the occasion with a traditional...
View Article‘Millennials never click on display ads': how ad firms can keep up
This new, web-hungry generation that is easing into the financial decision-making of adulthood is really challenging marketers to change their process. “More than anything else, Millennials want to be...
View ArticleThis Penn sophomore will be a Google summer intern: could Philly keep him?
Hong Kim had never done a technical interview before when he started looking in January for a summer internship. But that didn’t stop the 22-year-old Penn sophomore (Kim took two years off of school to...
View ArticleThis manufacturing firm modernized a sports charity’s access-focused skis
More people can enjoy the thrill of skiing, thanks to a collaboration between EFE Laboratories and the Pennsylvania Center for Adapted Sports (PCAS). EFE Labs, a Horsham, Pa.-based electromechanical...
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A robotic prosthetic hand, and other hacks these high schoolers built
Most high school students have never taken a technical entrepreneurship class. Steve Compton wants to change that. After teaching high school chemistry for 30 years, Compton is piloting the first ever...
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VeryApt: Wharton startup offers online apartment guide
When Scott Bierbryer moved to Philadelphia, he wanted an apartment with soundproof walls. That’s because the hobbyist musician was moving with guitars and a drum kit and wanted a space where he could...
View ArticleWhy these Venture for America fellows chose Philly
Paige Boehmcke didn’t want to go to grad school. So, after graduating from Johns Hopkins, the Material Science major accepted an offer from Venture for America, an organization that recruits college...
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