What is Startup Weekend? Checkout the video below to see if you have what it takes to be a part of this awesome community of innovators. Or, take action now and register here with the coupon code SWEARLYBIRD for 70% early bird tickets! Are you interested in attending? Until September 14th [...]
A NEW KIND OF TEACHER. It’s back to school, and you know what that means — time to fire up the computer that teaches you! That’s what primary school students in New Zealand have to look forward to, anyways. They’ll soon be the first students in the world to learn from an artificially [...]
The Las Vegas Data Science Group is a professional group that meets to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used to ingest, transform, explore, analyze & visualize data, obtain predictive & prescriptive insight, develop data products, and exploit business opportunities from data [...]
Lyft is going to offer half-priced and free rides to polling places around the country on Election Day (November 6). The ride-hailing giant said that it’s going to give out 50 percent off promotional codes to partners that encourage voter turnout. The company has linked up [...]
“Passion pulls you. It’s the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.” -Randy [...]
The Las Vegas Summer Game Jam The Las Vegas Summer Game Jam is a two-day education event and competitive “hackathon” for anybody interested in game development.The event features on-going workshops taught by professional developers as well as pizza, prizes, and plenty of opportunities [...]
How do you become a surgeon? Really, there’s only the one way. Read all the textbooks you like, but sooner or later, you’re going to have to grab a scalpel and get slicing. It’s a millennia-old method of on-the-job training, usually summarized with the worryingly abrupt expression “see [...]
SWLV2017 Recap Startup Weekend Las Vegas 2017 helped turn bright ideas into marketable business plans. From polishing each team’s pitch to winning over potential investors, each group was able to learn the skills of entrepreneurship hands-on with teams of other innovators. The team that took home [...]
“Sometimes a dream almost whispers, it never shouts. Very hard to hear. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear.” -Steven [...]
According to the World Health Organization, a baby dies every minute from infection caused by a lack of safe water and an unclean environment. Testing water typically requires expensive equipment and manual analysis, making it hard for many communities to ensure their water is safe. This is the [...]