Weekly Recap: Student hackathon, food inspections and a library story

Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read over the last week…


BIG Ideas School co-founder Shawn Cornally spoke at a TEDx event in Seattle earlier this month.  

Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read over the last week.

Iowa

  • Calling all Iowa State University students: ISU CSE Club and CyHack are hosting a 24-hour student hackathon April 4-5. — Hack ISU 
  • Earlier this month, BIG Ideas School co-founder Shawn Cornally spoke at a Seattle TEDx event about “the tyranny of the curriculum” in traditional school settings. — TEDx Talks YouTube
  • Local music startup Locusic has a new look as well as a few new features just in time for music festival season. — Locusic blog
  • SmartyPig co-founder Michael Ferrari shares his thoughts on how open APIs will help fuel banking innovations. And he would know—SmartyPig’s CorePro product was listed as one of the “10 Big, Hairy Innovation Ideas from Bank Innovation 2014.” — Ferrari’s personal blog 

Kansas City

  • A nice writeup on one of the Sprint Acclerator companies, Lifeline Response, and a Kansas lawmaker’s emotional story behind why he’s backing it. — KCBJ
  • Not just Kansas City, but the entire Midwest got some well-deserved publicity as a place for tech investment. — TechCrunch
  • Google Fiber and the Kansas City Startup Village will always be linked to one another. Here’s their story, told by Fiber. — YouTube

Nebraska 

  • Food Inspectations project has shelf life after its creation at Hack Omaha event. — Hack Omaha
  • Powderhook was featured on Dream Big America radio and is in a contest. — Dream Big America
  • Huntforce brings on in-house coding talent. — ERW PR
  • David Chait shares a library/Travefy story with Fast Company. — Fast Company
  • Several Lincoln startups won awards at UNL Entrepreneurship Days — University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Girls star Lena Dunham may have worn a sweater from/similar to one from Omaha’s Hello Holiday online boutique. — Hello Holiday

SPN’s most-read stories of last week

Starting this week, we’ll also include our five most-read stories from the last week. If you missed them the first time around, here are what SPN’s readers are loving right now:

  1. Startup investor James Linder to serve as NU interim president” by Jordan Pascale (3/19/14)
  2. Techstars, Sprint have 10 teams ready to alter the mobile health landscape” by Fred Bauters (3/17/14)
  3. 1MC Omaha takes new approach with VoterTide ‘postmortem’” by Jordan Pascale (3/20/14)
  4. HLT closes $1M seed round, strives to release 24 new apps this year” by Megan Bannister (2/11/14)
  5. Saturday’s AIM CoderDojo draws dozens of Omaha teens to code” by Katrina Markel (3/17/14)


We love to hear what you’re up to! Read something interesting about entrepreneurship or startups in the Midwest? Send it our way at editor@siliconprairienews.com

Credits: Shawn Cornally photo from YouTube

This story is part of the AIM Archive

This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »

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