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UNCF is hosting its premier four-day HBCU Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship Summit—Nov. 16–19—with the goals of empowering African American STEM students and addressing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem.
Atom Factory CEO, Troy Carter, announced plans to host a second season of Smashd Labs from September 6 to November 18. For the inaugural class, there were over 200 applicants in two weeks, six startups in the inaugural cohort, 30 mentors, founders as young as 19 years old, and over $2M raised from investments within six months of the lab’s concluding Demo Day.
Studies show that minority founders received only 1.1% of venture capital funding in 2022.
The challenge? Students were charged with developing an infotainment in-vehicle iOS app within the Ionic Cloud framework. They were required to use a certain set of APIs (an abbreviation of application program interface, “a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applicationsâ€), but could add other APIs if needed. They also provided concept documents and storyboards before the hackathon started.
Her path to the U.S. Coast Guard was unexpected. Now, she will become its first Black woman admiral.
