![RoboDoves: Western High School’s all-women robotics team secures spot at VEX World Championship [VIDEO]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/12/RoboDoves-160x130.jpg)
creative
Dec. 18, 2012 4:42 am
RoboDoves: Western High School’s all-women robotics team secures spot at VEX World Championship [VIDEO]
For the fifth time in six years, the RoboDoves all-female robotics team from Western High School has qualified for the world robotics championship. On Saturday, teams of high school students crowded into a second-floor auditorium inside Baltimore Leadership School on West Franklin Street. Teenagers wielded handheld, Xbox-like controllers connected to wheeled, waist-high machines built from [...]
![Wide Angle Youth Media celebrates 12 years teaching students video and audio production [VIDEO]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/12/WAYM-160x130.jpg)
creative
Dec. 17, 2012 10:30 am
Wide Angle Youth Media celebrates 12 years teaching students video and audio production [VIDEO]
Oliver Mahoro was just a year old when his family fled from Rwanda into the Congo to escape the genocide of 1994. They jumped from country to country for some time—back to Rwanda, then to Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe—before settling in Cape Town, South Africa. But on Sept. 5 this year, he and [...]
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Dec. 13, 2012 8:30 am
Glen Burnie school receives $11K from Target to purchase iPads, MacBook Pro
Thanks to an $11,000 grant from retail chain Target, the Ferndale Early Education Center in Anne Arundel County will be purchasing iPads for student use. According to the Maryland Gazette, the money “will be used to purchase 15 iPads, a MacBook Pro laptop and a cart that syncs and charges the devices. All will be [...]
![Digital Harbor Foundation donates Android Minis to Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West [VIDEO]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/12/JermaineShelly-160x130.jpg)
creative
Dec. 10, 2012 10:00 am
Digital Harbor Foundation donates Android Minis to Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West [VIDEO]
It seems odd that Jermaine Elliott — Digital Harbor Foundation EdTech fellow, teacher at Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West — didn’t have computers inside his classroom until the morning of Dec. 3. While the West campus of Bluford Drew Jemison holds several computer labs, access to the labs wasn’t always guaranteed, and one of [...]
civic
Nov. 28, 2012 10:30 am
STEM Engine: high school students do web design work, earn scholarship money through Digital Harbor Foundation program
Soon students from Digital Harbor High School will be designing websites for small businesses, nonprofits and artists in Baltimore city. And as they construct websites—and complete the requisite coding coursework in HMTL, CSS and PHP, for instance—they’ll earn scholarship money to be used toward paying for their college educations. It’s an initiative called STEM Engine, [...]
![Lance Lucas: Digit All Systems founder gets Baltimore’s unemployed computer certifications [PROFILE]](http://technical.ly/baltimore/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/10/Lance-Lucas-160x130.jpg)
business
Nov. 13, 2012 10:30 am
Lance Lucas: Digit All Systems founder gets Baltimore’s unemployed computer certifications [PROFILE]
Lance Lucas, founder of Digit All Systems. This is part one of a Technically Baltimore series about Digit All Systems. Click here to read part two, on Digit All’s work teaching certification classes in city schools, nonprofits and the Housing Authority. Click here to read part three, on Digit All’s new cloud computing curriculum, Street [...]
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Nov. 7, 2012 10:00 am
BmorePipeline: Digital Harbor Foundation project links high school students to tech internships
By several accounts, Baltimore has grown its offerings of tech innovation and IT jobs. One Simply Hired report projected that some 59,000 jobs in IT were in the Baltimore-Towson area alone. And while IT jobs in the Baltimore area are increasing at a rate slower than other geographic regions in the country, the number of [...]
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Nov. 7, 2012 9:30 am
Chris Tonjes: city to install WiFi at all 6 historic public markets before 2013
Update 11/8/12 2:06 p.m.: While ”Believe Wireless Broadband is providing the wireless access points and Internet service to Lexington Market at no cost,” the company has “not discussed anything with the city about the other markets,” said Marian Huller, vice president of Believe, in an e-mail. “Our only contact has been with the gb.tc and Lexington [...]
Aug. 29, 2012 10:48 am
Mission: Launch job program turns former prisoners into budding entrepreneurs
Teresa Hodge is starting her life over. In some ways, Hodge, 48, isn’t so unlike other middle-age Americans who have lost their jobs in the last five years. There is, however, one glaring difference: for nearly five years, Hodge served time at a women’s prison in Alderson, West Virginia, a minimum security federal facility. “By [...]
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Aug. 29, 2012 9:30 am
Leith Walk Elementary School addition features smart board-equipped classrooms, media center
When school opened Tuesday, students attending Leith Walk Elementary School in the northeast Baltimore neighborhood of Ramblewood got the first look at an addition tacked on to their 61-year-old school building, reports the Baltimore Brew. The addition, built with $20 million in state funding, will house grades 2 through 5 and includes “modern classrooms,” according to [...]