Aaron Reedy noticed something was missing from high school science classrooms. A former Chicago public school teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, he was unsatisfied with the available data analytics software options and felt that in order to simulate a professional lab setting, something had to be done. With input from […]
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Local nonprofit developing information platform for travelers with disabilities
The Blue Trunk Foundation is developing a travel information service for people with disabilities. The Charlottesville-based nonprofit was founded in 2015 by Rupa Valdez, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. The concept came from Valdez’s personal experiences traveling with a disability and navigating accessibility in unfamiliar […]
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Faculty learn tech at UVa teaching fair
This fall, students at the University of Virginia will continue to be exposed to technological advances that are aiding instruction, approaches that may one day find their way into local K-12 schools. To showcase new and existing programs and equipment to faculty Thursday, the University held the 4th annual Teaching with Technology Fair at Clemons […]
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Social media and mobile web developers share insights on their growing businesses
The Tom Tom Founders Festival held the fourth in a series of weekly place-based innovation talks Wednesday with a panel discussion examining how businesses are incorporating social media and mobile software applications into many facets of their work. Local experts described how they are growing their businesses in Charlottesville as they help other companies implement […]
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cvillepedia story in Sunday’s Daily Progress
The Daily Progress published a story today about cvillepedia , the new community wiki hosted by Charlottesville Tomorrow . We really appreciate their interest and hope the story motivates a lot of new users to sign-up and start contributing their knowledge to this collaborative project. We welcome your feedback and ideas. Brian Wheeler Charlottesville Tomorrow
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Charlottesville Tomorrow’s news headlines now available as an iPhone application
The free app was created during a December “unconference” held in downtown Charlottesville Charlottesville Tomorrow is pleased to announce the launch of its very own “app” for the iPhone, which is now available for free in the iTunes store . The software was developed as part of an iPhone “unconference” held in downtown Charlottesville in […]
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New design for Charlottesville Tomorrow’s blog includes global comments feed and your Flickr photos
Charlottesville Tomorrow has enhanced our blog design to provide you with a wider screen format, a global comments feed, feeds for news specific to Albemarle, Crozet and Charlottesville, and a slide carousel which includes local photography from Flickr. The new comments feed will allow you to easily keep track of all the community input on […]
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Recognition for Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Website
Charlottesville Tomorrow would like to give a shout out to Nell Boeschenstein at C-Ville Weekly for recognizing our website in her ” Best of C-Ville” round up in this week’s issue. While I can’t fathom how C-Ville can view cash proffers as a “snoozefest” topic (see page 15), the “development nerds” at Charlottesville Tomorrow are […]
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How well do you know these people?
How well do you know the dozen candidates running for the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and Charlottesville City Council ? How many names can you put to the faces below? Charlottesville Tomorrow has just released our updated Election Watch website for the 2007 elections. Charlottesville Tomorrow is a non-partisan organization and we do not […]
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County releases web-based GIS application
It appears Albemarle County has released to the public their new Geographic Information System website (GIS-Web) . This is an amazing new tool for taxpayers, developers, builders, the media, realtors, non-profits, well everyone interested in Albemarle County. “The County of Albemarle’s GIS-Web provides access to County map and tabular data from various departments. Through this […]
