At the seventh annual Tomtoberfest on Saturday, dozens of local companies formed a pop-up innovation district in Charlottesville’s IX Art Park to market themselves and recruit new employees. Faniska Brisker, a human-resources manager for CoConstruct, said the project management software company plans to add 40 to 50 employees over the next year. “[Tomtoberfest] is always […]
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‘This is home’
Benjamin F. Yancey Elementary School and its predecessors have anchored Southern Albemarle’s African-American community for almost 150 years. In 2017, Albemarle County closed the school in response to low enrollment and a loss of funding.
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CHS engineering teacher fuses education with entrepreneurship
When Matt Shields started teaching engineering at Charlottesville High School, he set himself a challenge: stop lecturing. Rather than tell students which leg of an LED connects to the positive end of the battery, he decided to let students make mistakes. “Day One, you plug it in wrong and it turns black or it pops, […]
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How can Charlottesville build an inclusive tech sector?
Knatokie Ford has an excellent resumé. She holds a Ph.D. in experimental pathology from Harvard University and helped to shape science and technology policy in the Obama White House — twice. Ford also founded Fly Sci Enterprise, a Washington, D.C-based company that uses science and technology to create social change. But her journey to success has not […]
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Tom Tom panel contemplates future of education, workforce development
How should schools and colleges prepare students for their careers when technology— and jobs associated with it— can become obsolete in the span of a few years? At the Tom Tom Founders Festival on Thursday, leaders of education nonprofits in three different states discussed ways to teach “skills that matter” regardless of how the economy […]
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CIC opens workspace for local entrepreneurs
The Community Investment Collaborative hopes its new co-working space gives budding small-business owners a foothold in downtown Charlottesville before they brave the city’s crowded real estate market. CIC hosted an open house Friday to introduce the co-working space, dubbed the Collaborative, which is within the organization’s offices at the Citizens Commonwealth Center on Preston Avenue. […]
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Funding push made for public housing resident training program
Participants will learn construction, maintenance skills in new partnership If all goes according to plan, 20 units of affordable housing in Charlottesville that are currently uninhabitable due to disrepair will be brought back to life in a collaboration between two local nonprofits, the area’s community college and the city. At the same time, public housing […]
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Local renewable-energy companies launch shared internship portal
A group of renewable-energy companies in the Charlottesville area believes there is strength in numbers when recruiting interns. The Charlottesville Renewable Energy Alliance recently launched an online portal that enables college students and recent graduates to send their resumes to multiple local energy companies through a single internship application. Charity Pennock, director of the CvilleREA, […]
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GO Virginia Growth and Diversity Plan outlines region’s economic opportunities, challenges
A new analysis of Central Virginia’s economy projects job growth to continue in the region over the next decade. It also identified an urgent need for education and investment to help the region adapt to transformative economic shifts affecting its major industries. Since the end of the Great Recession, the region’s workforce has grown by […]
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Local high schoolers gain tech experience through summer internships
As Virginia’s public schools seek to prepare students for high-paying jobs in technology industries, some students aren’t waiting to graduate to get their first experiences in the field. This summer, two friends and classmates at Charlottesville High School wrote code for software companies on opposite sides of the Downtown Mall. James Nachbar worked at Astraea, […]
