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Startup life and your marriage: Dan Schmidt dives in

By Tommy Felts / June 14, 2016

Editor’s Note: Dan and Gina Schmidt agreed to share their experience of how startup life has changed their relationship and family. Check in Thursday to hear Gina’s perspective. Opinions expressed this commentary are the author’s alone.   Being a husband, father and founder has stretched me in ways I never would have imagined.   At…

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Dying schools taught Katie Boody how to build

By Tommy Felts / June 10, 2016

Editor’s note: Katie Boody is a co-founder of The Lean Lab, a Kansas City-based education incubator that helps educators create and implement innovative ideas in schools to help students. The Lean Lab co-founder Carrie Markel contributed to this piece. Opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Both the schools I taught at are…

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Laura Gilchrist: What KC can learn from Silicon Valley education

By Tommy Felts / June 9, 2016

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. A few weeks ago, several of my fellow educators and I toured five innovative Bay Area schools. Being in the heart of Silicon Valley, it’s no surprise that educators there understand the importance of finding new ways to engage and educate kids in…

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Coty Beasley consoles dystopic critics of artificial intelligence

By Tommy Felts / June 7, 2016

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Artificial intelligence has a lot of misconceptions. The first images that come to mind are the dystopian classics: Hal locking Dave out of the airlock, terminators shooting machine guns into a crowd, or (one of my favorites) V’ger taking pot-shots at the Federation.…

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New STEM leader Martha McCabe wants to prioritize diversity

By Tommy Felts / May 27, 2016

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Kansas City cannot continue to grow as a tech hub without first establishing a vibrant — and diverse — local STEM talent pipeline. As a community, we’ve put the wheels in motion. For example, about half of metro school districts now offer the…

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