Dev Catalyst Celebrates Another Great Trip to San Francisco
A few months ago, over 200 students submitted their final projects from their Dev Catalyst coding classes to our competition. Out of those, 21 exceptional students were awarded an all expenses paid tech tour of San Francisco. The trip, which is the sixth of its nature, gives students the chance to visit some top companies in Silicon Valley and discover the vast career options available to those in tech.
Stuck on Sticker Mule
A fun way for Jacksonians to rep their love for their city is with Our Jackson Home’s merchandise. Sayings such as “Jackson Grown,” “Stay 731,” and “West Tennessee is the best Tennessee” adorn apparel for all ages from onesies for the newest addition to soft sweatshirts that’ll keep grandma warm. The shop also features plenty of home items such as Jackson and West TN map prints, screen-printed totes, campfire mugs, and more.
Are You Ready For 731Day?
Founded in 2016 by Our Jackson Home, 731Day brings the community together every year on July 31st (7/31) to celebrate the beauty of Jackson and the people in it. Falling this year on a Wednesday is the fourth annual 731Day. Each one is unique from the last. 2017 featured a Night of Storytelling at theCO and last year marked Jackson’s very first Porchfest.
Dev Catalyst Students Are San Francisco Bound!
Dev Catalyst is rooted in developing student coders who are marketable in today’s workforce and we offer three high school competition categories: Hardware Development, Novice Web Development, and Data Development. Over two hundred students submitted competition entries this year alone. Eighty students were named code leaders and invited to celebrate at Awardaganza hosted at theCO.
Dev Catalyst Welcomes Christen Harper
Since it’s early stages Dev Catalyst has grown immensely, partly because of a great team driving and directing the program. Our newest addition is Christen Harper. We don’t consider Christen a new face around here simply because she’s been working with DevCatalyst as an intern for the past year. We’re excited to welcome her to the team full-time as Technology Education Coordinator for DevCatalyst in May.
Tom Tom Takeaways for the Rural Ecosystem Builder
Last week, theCO was invited to attend the inaugural Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Summit at the Tom Tom Festival hosted by the Kauffman Foundation, Rural Rise, CO.STARTERS and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Our Jackson Home: A Night of Storytelling, Vol. 7
A Night of Storytelling is a biannual Our Jackson Home event that seeks to create a warm environment for you to dig deeper into the people and places of our city by hearing personal stories from your Jackson neighbors.
CO.STARTERS Spotlight: Trista Havner
Chances are if you can dream it, Trista Havner can make it. As the owner of Hub City Love, she makes a business out of rescuing forgotten treasures and returning them to their former glory. “No piece of wood, old window, canvas, or even t-shirt is safe with me,” says Trista. If it will hold still, you can pretty much bet she is going to paint it.