Education

Social studies to social venture: Missouri teen’s micro business helps students across the globe

By Tommy Felts / October 29, 2024

Editor’s note: The following story was produced through a paid partnership with MOSourceLink, which boasts a mission to help entrepreneurs and small businesses across the state of Missouri grow and succeed by providing free, easy access to the help they need — when they need it. ST. LOUIS — It wasn’t an entrepreneurship course that…

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Kansas City-built Boddle earns $500K Yass Prize Finalist Award, hits 2M monthly users

By Tommy Felts / October 17, 2024

MIAMI — Winning a coveted award from Stop for Education is expected to empower Boddle Learning to reach a broader audience than ever before, as well as significantly expanding its curriculum and advancing its cutting-edge AI-powered education tools. Boddle, which launched and grew in Kansas City before relocating to Tulsa, Oklahoma, was announced as a…

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Chan Zuckerberg funds KC nonprofit to help AI tech empower educators, innovators

By Tommy Felts / October 17, 2024

A nearly $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is expected to help a Kansas City-based nonprofit expand and strengthen the infrastructure of its national education research and development coalition, its founder said. The funding specifically supports Leanlab Education’s American Group of Innovative Learning Environments (AGILE) Network, a national education R&D network and collective…

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Design-Zyme, KU researchers latch onto $3M SBIR award for Lyme disease vaccine

By Tommy Felts / October 17, 2024

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro.  LAWRENCE — Vaccine development at KU Innovation Park could help stop an uptick in Lyme disease in its tracks, using a just-announced $3 million in federal funds to bring a…

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Jeremy Terman turned a likely ‘no’ into a tech career; his advice: Don’t wait for permission to start

By Tommy Felts / October 15, 2024

The biggest risks are in doing nothing, said Jeremy Terman, encouraging entrepreneurship students at UMKC to take the plunge — even if at times the world might be telling them they aren’t ready. “You don’t have to be in a box. You don’t have to listen to what the rules are,” said Terman, an investor…

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