Kenya Lifts Itself Up By Its Tech Bootstraps
As many African countries struggle to achieve widespread economic growth and to escape from just being raw agricultural and mineral producers, change is occurring in Kenya, home to East Africa’s largest economy. There, information technology is being used as a springboard for growth. One aspect of that drive isKonza Technology City. The ground breaking for the [...]
Read MoreBio Pharmaceutical Tech Center and African American Ethnic Academy Encourage Young Scientists
The Bio Pharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI) has once again teamed up with the African American Ethnic Academy (AAEA) in Fitchburg, Wisconsin for a science program that encourages young future scientists to express and develop their creativity in numerous ways. This year’s theme is “Healthy Bodies: On Earth and In Space.” The AAEA and the [...]
Read MoreGoogle Sponsors Sixth Annual Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad
Google, for the second year in a row, sponsored the sixth Annual Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad. The Olympiad consisted of 16 teams from eight Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), or Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) competing in five computer science-related events. One of the events consist of [...]
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