Photo courtesy of Miami Dade College. Video by Glissette Santana: The Idea Center at Miami Dade College incubates entrepreneurs of all ages from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Marlise Urscheler, 23, considered herself a typical Miami Dade College student before she set foot in The Idea Center at Miami Dade College: She was working while studying for […]
Article · August 19, 2016 by Glissette Santana
I recently participated in the Student Projects for the National Association of Black Journalists/National Association of Hispanic Journalists Joint Convention and Career Fair in Washington, D.C. In a conference call the Wednesday before I flew to D.C., for the first time, the Student Projects mentors sternly told my fellow participants and me that our lives […]
Article · August 17, 2016 by Glissette Santana
Photos by Glissette Santana. When Willie Avendano and Nelson Milian showed up to the headquarters of their company, 01, in Wynwood on a recent Tuesday, the place had no Wi-Fi. A service outage in the area caused them to rethink their game plan. In less than a half-hour, they would have 25 kids knocking on […]
Article · July 6, 2016 by Glissette Santana
Miami and Charlotte skylines by Michael Bolden and James Willamor on Flickr. The Charlotte (North Carolina) Chamber of Commerce brought its annual Inter City Visit to the Knight community of Miami June 22 to 25, hoping to build off the entrepreneurial and startup energy of the Magic City. The tour, an annual event by the […]
Article · June 29, 2016 by Glissette Santana
Above: Michaela Murdock, 14, and Alecx Murdock, 18, get advice on their business, The Hairy Travel, from Code Fever co-founder Derick Pearson. Photo by Glissette Santana. On their first day of summer camp, Zekai Hamilton, 11, and Eric Nanhay, 9, learned how to make memes and GIFs. This wasn’t an attempt to boost their social […]
Article · June 23, 2016 by Glissette Santana
Three teams made Roomba like vacuum cleaners, complete with 3-D printed wheels and laser-cut bodies. Photo by Glissette Santana on Flickr. Virtual reality headsets, 3-D printed hammers and robotic vacuums lined the showcase table at Make 1’s student showcase Thursday night at The Idea Center at Miami Dade College in downtown Miami. Make1, a 16-week […]
Article · June 21, 2016 by Glissette Santana
National Day of Civic Hacking in Miami. All photos by Glissette Santana on Flickr. Three cities in 24 hours were on DJ Patil’s itinerary this past weekend; two of them were Knight communities. Patil, chief data scientist in the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the White House, flew to St. Louis, Charlotte, North Carolina, […]
Article · June 10, 2016 by Glissette Santana
Above photo by Glissette Santana. Natacha St. Louis decided to leave her job working for a small city in South Florida after attending last year’s Miami GovJam, a two-day session for government and local workers to come together and find solutions to real-world problems. With its emphasis on service design, a methodology used to improve interactions […]
Article · June 8, 2016 by Glissette Santana
Photos by Glissette Santana. When Michael Montero received his first paycheck, he used the money to buy a desktop computer. He tinkered with it. Took it apart. Put it back together. His mom would get mad at him for hogging the phone line to dial up the internet. “I always had a passion for computers,” […]
Article · June 2, 2016 by Glissette Santana
Photos by Glissette Santana. It’s a Wednesday night in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, and the concrete walls of a former warehouse are thumping to the sound of hip-hop beats. People line the hall, waiting for admission. But this isn’t the latest trendy nightclub. It’s the loft-style headquarters of Live Ninja, a video software startup, and […]
Article · June 1, 2016 by Glissette Santana