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U-M undergrads to launch Makeathon with A2Awesome grant

By Mark | January 8, 2014

A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering undergraduate Beverly Chou (seen below accepting the award from A2 Awesome founder Lisa Dengiz) to help fund the launch of an event that she and fellow students are calling Makeathon. After our meeting, I took the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized | Also tagged 3D printing, A2Awesome, art & design, Awesome Foundation, Beverly Chou, collaboration, College of Creative Studies, competitions, Detroit, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Google, hackathons, Hardware Hacks, IDEO, interdisciplinary, kids today, Lisa Dengiz, Makeathon, makers, making stuff, mechanical engineering, micro-philanthropy, MIT, MPowered, produce design, Sydney Bigelow, TechShop Detroit, University of Michigan | 5 Comments

Students at Detroit’s Western High School walk out over planned school closings and cuts in education funding, chanting “They sat cut back! We say fight back!”

By Mark | April 29, 2012

Increasing, we’re seeing students in Detroit step-up and fight for the educations that they’re entitled to as American citizens. Every few weeks, it seems, there’s a different battle being waged. If it’s not kids being arrested for protesting the closing of their schools, it’s kids being suspended for having the audacity to demand that they […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged Catherine Ferguson Academy, Clark Park, demands, Detroit Public Schools, Freddie Burse, Frederick Douglass Academy, free school, Maybury Elementary, Occupy Ypsilanti, poetry, Raychel Gafford, Roy Roberts, school closings, social justice, Southwest Detroit, Southwest Detroit Freedom School, Southwestern High School, Steve Wasko, the challenges of urban students, we need a revolution | 16 Comments

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