DETROIT - Star-Trek-Horizon, a feature-length independent film currently in production in Southeast Michigan and produced by an Albion College graduate, launched a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter over the Easter weekend and in just 32 hours raised $10,000. The campaign continues to run through May 19. Horizon follows Captain Harrison Hawke and the crew of
DETROIT ? There is a new acronym in education that expands on the popular STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. It?s called STEAM and it was the focus of a program on April 14 at the College for Creative Studies. STEAM is STEM with addition of Art and Design. The all day summit at
LOS ANGELES - WayFounder has opened its first quarterly online competition, geared at sourcing great ideas from consumers who are not able to assume the risks inherent in founding a new company. The first competition will run for 60 days through June 8 and will focus on acquiring consumer product and mobile app ideas in
STERLING HEIGHTS - If you are a startup or early-stage growth-based business looking for funding, come meet and listen to Macomb-Oakland University Business Commercialization and Capital Investment Advisor capital expert, Mike Brennan, on May 6. Brennan (no relationship to MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan) will detail the various capital sources in Michigan, and talk about how
LANSING - There?s a new mentoring program for entrepreneurs in the Lansing area launched by the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, the economic development organization for the capital region, and Michigan State University?s Spartan Innovations spinout business accelerator. The first event of the new group was held after the March 26 session of The Hatching, the
EAST LANSING ?Earlier this month, the Michigan State University Women in Computing group gathered in a campus classroom for a different type of learning session - a panel of respected women with careers in technology who provided insight on what it takes to create a successful IT career. The session, sponsored by the Michigan Council
LANSING ? Good news entrepreneurs. State officials Thursday announced a designation of $6.8 million for Michigan Pre-Seed Fund 2.0, a statewide investment fund aimed at supporting high-tech early stage companies. The fund will be managed by Invest Michigan, a Michigan nonprofit corporation based in Detroit. Charlie Moret, who ran Connecticut?s Pre-Seed Fund, CTech and TechStart
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University held the second annual Women in Technology conference on March 28 focused on empowering women to become more successful in Technology careers. The welcome was given by two large supporters for women in technology, Aphrodite Jones, Associate Dean of the Davenport College of Technology, and Gabriela Ziegler, Department Chair for
DETROIT - On April 14, the College for Creative Studies, Detroit?s lead design and creative college, is bringing in luminaries from Nike, Walt Disney, Warner Music Group, U of M and Ford to talk experience design and the future of technology. CCS is on the cutting edge of this ever growing industry ? looking at
TRAVERSE CITY - In collaboration with the American Folklife Center and its 75th anniversary celebration of Alan Lomax's field recordings of Michigan folk music for the Library of Congress, SEEDS After School students have been working all spring with the Earthwork Music Collective and Blackbird Arts to create a performance at the City Opera House