DETROIT - Gamers now spend an average of more than seven hours each week playing video games. While players once had to wait until they got home and boot up their gaming hardware to play their favorite game, mobile gaming has made access a whole lot easier. As technology has developed, mobile gaming has meant
LANSING – As travelers look ahead to sunny days and warmer temperatures, the award-winning Pure Michigan advertising campaign returns for audiences across the Midwest to inspire both spring and summer travel this season. The campaign also encourages safe travel across the state during a critical time for the tourism industry as it continues to recover
ANN ARBOR - Calling all startups and mid-sized companies looking for STEM student interns! STEM Forward is offering a $3,000 match for hiring a Michigan based intern for your company. Ann Arbor SPARK and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) are launching Michigan STEM Forward, a statewide program that matches students attending Michigan colleges and universities with internship opportunities
LANSING — Robotics Week in Michigan encouraged students, educators and parents to understand the importance of robotics education, which encourages problem-solving, creative thinking and a healthy sense of competition that drives innovation from students and prepares them for high-demand, high-wage careers. “Robotics programs offer students a fun, hands-on approach to classroom lessons and experiences to
ANN ARBOR—The Michigan Angel Community will host its annual Michigan Celebrates Angels event, virtually, on April 20, from 10 a.m. to noon. The event, featuring early-stage investors and startups, will include: The results of the 2020 Michigan Angel report, detailing activity throughout the state New Michigan angel groups, Commune Angels, Ark Angels, and Pointe Angels A panel discussion
DETROIT - Building a feature-rich app is now more manageable, owing to the readily available development frameworks. While the extensive pool delivers numerous benefits, it also poses some challenges. How do you choose the best framework; what are the top considerations? Browsing through the options can prove demanding that you might initially anticipate. Nonetheless, React.JS
ANN ARBOR - Epidemiologist Fred Brown updates the spread of a new variation of COVID-19 in Michigan and provides tips for businesses, academic institutions, and other groups on how they can avoid spread the even more contagious strains of the virus that has triggered a worldwide pandemic. Trained as a medicinal biochemist, Brown has been
DETROIT—The Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan (WIN) is now seeking 100 civilians and companies in Metro Detroit for inclusion in the Operation Next advanced manufacturing training program. The hybrid training, developed by LIFT, the Detroit-based Department of Defense-supported national manufacturing innovation institute, combines self-directed virtual learning with hands-on lab work to provide foundational knowledge,
SOUTHFIELD—The team from St. John Lutheran School in Rochester won a fourth place finish in the national tournament of Future City. Future City is a project-based learning program where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades imagine, research, design, and build cities set at least 100 years in the future. The competition’s theme changes every
SOUTHFIELD—The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Michigan Chapter has become a sponsor of Lawrence Technological University’s team in a global competition for autonomous vehicles in which LTU is three-time defending global champion. “In our efforts to both promote STEM (Science , Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education and connect the defense industry with academia, we were
