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Lived experiences drive apprentices learning to code in the Pritzker Tech Talent Labs
At their showcase, DPI’s software development apprentices showed off the apps they developed. Ricardo Juarez used to be a ...
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Meet the classroom leaders of Digital Scholars 2024
Digital Scholars instructors and program staff. Photography by Winnie Wu. The heart of Pritzker Tech Talent Labs’ Digital Scholars program ...
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Igniting research with R&D’s first summer interns
Graduate student intern Shiyu Liu explains her research project to Karl Putz, DPI’s associate director of R&D. ...
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Making connections with Summer Tech Interns
Summer Tech Interns present their research projects at their closing event. Photo credit: Carl Ankrum This summer marked DPI’s ...
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Teachers head back to the classroom to boost their tech skills
Students and teachers learned Swift mobile app development together. It’s not just students who want to be on the ...
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City College students “blossomed” in the Digital Bridge program
Emily Valdez presents Blossom Buddy as team members Dafne Hernandez and Jared Bears look on. DPI’s Digital Bridge program ...
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A new study provides a more detailed look than ever at Chicago’s landscape
Photo by Peiyuan Li. An aerial view of the tree canopies over residential homes in a typical urban neighborhood. A ...
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A summer of firsts for Digital Scholars
Solena Ornelas Pagnucci, Olivia Kenoun, and Aizah Ahmad present their Protect Me app at Apple’s showcase. Praised by multiple ...
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Thoughts from a TechChicago Week pitch competition judge
Photo by David T. Kindler Bob Okabe is the director of New Business Ventures at Discovery Partners Institute, part of ...
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Why I joined Discovery Partners Institute
Photo by Heather Eidson Brad Spirrison is the new corporate engagement lead at Discovery Partners Institute, part of the University ...
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A new website connects Illinois computer science teachers
A screenshot of the home page of the Illinois Computer Science Teacher Toolkit. Teaching computer science can be a lonely ...
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Facing the hard reality of computer science education in Illinois
A panel discusses IWERC’s study on the state of computer science education in Illinois. An ongoing study shows that ...
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Lived experiences drive apprentices learning to code in the Pritzker Tech Talent Labs
At their showcase, DPI’s software development apprentices showed off the apps they developed. Ricardo Juarez used to be a ...
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Alvin Chin and Lav Varshney: AI is here. How can we make it less scary and safer?
We believe there is a need for white-box AI systems that are directly human-controllable and require very little ...
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Decarbonization on the agenda at UN Science Summit
Chicago climate and urban sustainability researcher to moderate panel with national and international collaborators from the CLEETS Global Center CHICAGO – ...
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