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Young participants work with LEGO-based projects during a CoderDojo held at Wellington Heights Community Church in Cedar Rapids in February. Cedar Rapids-based NewBoCo has been offering a number of learning opportunities, including CoderDojos and Code 101s, in public spaces throughout the community in an effort to make them more accessible. CREDIT NEWBOCO

NewBoCo: Meeting people where they are

For nearly a decade, NewBoCo has been offering tech education programs for all ages within our building, working with over 900 students and adults each year. Now we’re making more of an effort to bring those programs out into the…

Is regionalism dead?

Be a good human…and board member

Control, influence and manipulation

John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls Recently, a friend who had bounced through several poor jobs…

When the temperature rises, the light dims

John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls Recently, a colleague mentioned that his teen-age daughter just obtained…

Maintaining balance in your life

John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls Recently, I was at a meeting where a successful, high-performance…

How well do you know your news outlets?

Joe Coffey / The Fifth Estate The research phase of many a local news story…