Techstart Program

05/01/2018

✅IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: CHATBOT EMBARGO is over! Messenger Bots connection pause is OVER. 📣😍

What are you waiting for?⏰
GO CREATE A CHATBOT! 👨‍💻👩‍💻

05/01/2018

TechStart is packing their bags and heading to the Big 🍎 for the 10th Annual Super Saturday STEM Expo in Harlem on Saturday, May 19! Who's coming?!?

http://www.supersaturdaystemexpo.org/

04/12/2018

Our partnership with EAST Initiative is the gift that keeps on giving!

04/04/2018

"A project gives coding a reason to be done, a context," Tom O'Connell! We agree 🤗, purposeful learning with tangible outcomes! 👩‍💻✅

When children in Homer, AK, come to storytime at the public library, they might hear Ezra Jack Keats’s classic The Snowy Day or Lois Ehlert’s Snowballs. As in such programs across the country, the

03/22/2018

It has been a whole week since , but the TechStart Team is still jazzed about our experience at the EAST Conference 2018 in Hot Springs, AR. We are incredibly grateful for the EAST Initiative for inviting us and for an such an invigorating week. Huge shout out to our partners Code/Interactive & Gamesforchange for joining us at ! Here a few highlights for you to enjoy!

03/13/2018

TechStart EAST Conference 2018

03/08/2018

Hi Al!

For those who were affected by yesterday's set back, please see below for instructions from Oculus!

Please reach out if you have any questions, or comments!
Thank you all!
The TechStart Team!

03/06/2018

We are excited! Who's coming?🎉🎊

Getting so very close to now, and we are so very grateful to have the sponsorship of Facebook's Techstart Program! See you next week!

02/26/2018

Let the countdown begin! 16 DAYS BEFORE THE EAST CONFERENCE in Hot Springs, AR! Who's coming?

01/22/2018

Thank you Pulaski County Special School District for highlighting our program and our work with Maumelle High!

01/07/2018

Eighth-grade science students at Amorel High School in Arkansas used a 3-D printer to create a prosthetic leg for Peg the duck, found without a foot shortly after he hatched. Peg now walks and runs like a normal duck.

Via EAST Initiative

Eighth-grade science students have used a 3-D printer to create a prosthetic leg for a duck found without a foot shortly after he hatched.

01/05/2018

The tent has button-powered lights, two USB ports, a micro-USB port, and the girls have even tested a sanitizing UVC light on a countdown timer. In the beginning, the team depended on guidance, but then quickly started doing everything on their own. "You're learning new things you've never even heard of or even thought of," says Chelly Chavez, who learned the programming language C++ to get the technical aspects of the tent to behave.

A group of teen girls learned to code, solder, sew, and 3D-print to invent a solar-powered tent for the homeless.