Jan 28
Download the new Virtual Reality App “Conner’s Virtual Reality Heart” from the Google Play Store. I want to say thank you to the 5 students from the Grow a Generation Virtual Reality Class who created this awesome VR experience for you. Thank you to Sari Abu-Hamad, Sean McCarthy, Derek Hufnagle, Logan Husek, Jacob Stewart as …
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Jul 24
The Catholic Church’s World Youth Day will be held in Krakow, Poland July 25 – 31, 2016 welcoming nearly 2 million youth and young adults. I was invited, locally, to share some reflections on Pope John Paul the Great, with a local groups of pilgrims from St. Killian that are now on their way. Years …
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Jul 11
I was in Walmart the other night and was bumped into by three different players staring at their phones wandering the aisles looking for Augmented Reality Pokemon with their cell phones. Geek that I am, I got all excited, abandoned my shopping, and started hunting some of the rare ones whose names were being …
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Fortune Magazine recently quoted Jess Lee, a former Google product manager who is having trouble staffing her profitable startup; “I think this might be the worst engineering market ever.The kinds of offers they’re giving out are astronomical.” The article goes on to explain the average annual salary for Google software engineers now hovers around $143,000 …
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Sep 25
Make new friends. Play with tech. Earn some sweet prizes. Sign me up! Is your high school or college student looking for a great opportunity to do something meaningful? Look for a local Hackathon and gather a team to attend (the Pittsburgh area has the Mylan Hackathon, CMU Hack-A-Startup, Pitt Mobile App Challenge, Steel City Codefest , and the Verizon …
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Sep 20
Grow a Generation is pleased to announce a 6 week workshop preparing high school teams from Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic to compete int he 2015 Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Feel free to contact us if your high school or middle school is interested in preparing a team for the challenge. …
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Apr 12
Congratulations to the two Pittsburgh competitors on their way to the international challenge round! Teams gathered Friday two begin a two day hack-a-thon marathon to build a space app. Degrees of Data included a very hardworking freshman from Pitt and his team. NamingNature brought their tree naming app to address deforestation. Check out what these …
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