Last year, the Iowa Department of Corrections and NewBoCo, in Cedar Rapids, started a coding program for women at the prison, funded by a $175,000 grant from the Google Impact Challenge. The pilot project is modeled after NewBoCo’s Delta V program, a 20-week boot camp where individuals with no technical background become Full Stack JavaScript developers.
HappyGram is a card delivery service for those living in senior communities. Family and friends go to the HappyGram website where they can write a personalized message and upload a photo from their computer or smartphone.
In her role as a Coe College professor, Maria Dean said she enjoyed helping students make connections to a future career path, never discouraging them as she’d been discouraged early on in her career.
September, the first full month of football, which included the annual Cy-Hawk game and two Iowa universities in college football’s Top 10, was bound to produce record wagering, according to sports gaming analysts.
Local bookstores brace for supply chain challenges
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week. Iowa recorded 1,767 new claims for the week.
Independence will receive $499,968 in Community Development Block Grants for building facades of eight downtown businesses.
Acting can be a key to giving the same speech many times
While the Iowa Business Council’s third-quarter economic outlook still scored strongly for the next six months, numbers fell in three key categories.
Entrepreneur Clayton Mooney to speak at 1 Million Cups
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down in parts of the world on Monday.
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