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Georgia Teens Design Mobile App to Grade Quality of Police Services
Three teenage siblings from Stone Mountain, Georgia, have re-launched their FiveO police rating app, by using the $22,000 first place award they won from the 2015 Hiil Innovating Justice Challenge at The Hague, Netherlands. The term FiveO, is a slang term used for police officers. The FiveO app, aims to build and strengthen the bond between citizens and […]
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Amazon.com Invests $12M In This Entrepreneur’s Invention
Paul Judge is an entrepreneur who graduated from Morehouse College and earned his Ph.D. in network security at Georgia Institute of Technology. Paul and friend, Mike Van Bruinisse, are the co-founders of Luma, a company that produces a home wireless router. The router is designed to improve connection-speed quality and decrease dead Wi-Fi areas in […]
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Black Female Engineer Creates Job Matching App Designed To Remove Bias From Tech Hiring
At the young age of 13, Stephanie Lampkin learned to code. By the time she was 15, she was fluent in computer programming. Graduating from Stanford University with an engineering degree and from MIT with an MBA, she remembers still being told her background wasn’t “technical enough” when applying for a position at a well-known […]
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Non-Profit Organization Prepares Young Black Girls For Tech Industry by Teaching Them To Code
Kimberly Bryant was inspired to start Black Girls Code by her daughter’s experiences at a middle school computer science camp. Bryant’s daughter, Kia, was one of only a handful of girls at the camp and the only black girl. When she came home each evening, she told her mother that the instructors focused more intently […]
