Baltimore got excited about these 10 tech stories from 2016

It’s happening and it’s happening fast — 2016 is on the way out. But before we ring in another new year of covering tech and innovation stories in Baltimore, we wanted to look back at all we’ve learned and explored (with your help!) this year.
Here, for your reading and revisiting pleasure, are the top ten most-read Technical.ly Baltimore stories from 2016.

1. Here are the nominees for the 4th annual Baltimore Innovation Awards
   At the end of September we celebrated Baltimore’s best and brightest in 2016. And you, dear readers, made the celebration great by giving this voting piece your full attention.
2. Meet the group of neighbors spearheading West Baltimore’s innovation district
   In which we dug into the specific human forces behind an important economic development project.
3. 4 Y Combinator tips for building startups in Baltimore or anywhere
   Everyone wants a tip (or four) from the renowned Silicon Valley accelerator. We get it, and this collection delivered.
4. It all started with Advertising.com
   We traced the legacy of Ad.com’s talent — where they went and what they’ve done — and you tuned in.
5. Devin Partlow, gone at 31, remembered as big thinker, community builder
   In 2016 Baltimore tech had to say goodbye, all too soon, to one of its own.
6. These are 10 of Baltimore’s most powerful Black voices on social media
   Social media is an undeniably formidable tool and these individuals use it well. We caught (deserved) flak for not including any women on the list and compiled a followup, focused exclusively on Black women.
7. The Orioles are hosting a baseball hackathon
   Baseball and a hackathon? Yeah, we get why this was so popular.
8. Meet the new Agora companies
   This story profiled some of the most recent developments in Agora’s long (since founding in 1978) history of growth and change.
9. Check out the hardware at the makerspace in City Garage
   We offered an exclusive sneak peek of The Foundry’s new spot — an offer that’s hard to turn down.
10. This 14-year-old girl is a hackathon award-winning, mobile game dev
    Hey, sometimes you just gotta know that the kids are all right.