May 22, 2019

How Coding is Becoming Necessary Across Industries

May 22, 2019/ Katie Weatherford

When most people think of coding, they tend to also think about STEM fields, the tech industry and individuals who are academically inclined and highly experienced with computers and other technology. While coding is definitely still connected to these things, thinking that its only application is to highly specific technological fields couldn’t be further from the truth. Coding is becoming an increasingly necessary skill in virtually any industry since technology is becoming more and more integral to our society as the years go on.

May 13, 2019

Dev Catalyst Students Are San Francisco Bound!

May 13, 2019/ Katie Weatherford

Dev Catalyst is rooted in developing student coders who are marketable in today’s workforce and we offer three high school competition categories: Hardware Development, Novice Web Development, and Data Development. Over two hundred students submitted competition entries this year alone. Eighty students were named code leaders and invited to celebrate at Awardaganza hosted at theCO.

April 18, 2019

Dev Catalyst Welcomes Christen Harper

April 18, 2019/ Katie Weatherford

Since it’s early stages Dev Catalyst has grown immensely, partly because of a great team driving and directing the program. Our newest addition is Christen Harper. We don’t consider Christen a new face around here simply because she’s been working with DevCatalyst as an intern for the past year. We’re excited to welcome her to the team full-time as Technology Education Coordinator for DevCatalyst in May.

April 15, 2019

Tom Tom Takeaways for the Rural Ecosystem Builder

April 15, 2019/ Katie Weatherford

Last week, theCO was invited to attend the inaugural Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Summit at the Tom Tom Festival hosted by the Kauffman Foundation, Rural Rise, CO.STARTERS and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

April 04, 2019

Our Jackson Home: A Night of Storytelling, Vol. 7

April 04, 2019/ Katie Weatherford

A Night of Storytelling is a biannual Our Jackson Home event that seeks to create a warm environment for you to dig deeper into the people and places of our city by hearing personal stories from your Jackson neighbors.

March 21, 2019

CO.STARTERS Spotlight: Trista Havner

March 21, 2019/ Katie Weatherford

Chances are if you can dream it, Trista Havner can make it. As the owner of Hub City Love, she makes a business out of rescuing forgotten treasures and returning them to their former glory. “No piece of wood, old window, canvas, or even t-shirt is safe with me,” says Trista. If it will hold still, you can pretty much bet she is going to paint it.

February 21, 2019

Marketing Meetups: Derrick Smith

February 21, 2019/ Katie Weatherford

Derrick Smith has a background in counseling and wanted to study psychology and sociology to better understand how people work, an interest he transitioned from counseling into starting his own marketing service to help businesses communicate better and stand out in the marketplace to consumers.

January 10, 2019

Member Spotlight: Adam Curl

January 10, 2019/ Hannah Heckart

There aren’t many college students that get to work in their field of study while in undergrad, but Adam Curl is one exception. As a senior Computer Science major at Middle Tennessee State University, Adam works remotely as a web and software developer for Sodium Halogen at theCO, and has been a CO:member for the past two and a half years.

January 03, 2019

CO:bots Students Invited to Smithsonian & Google Competitions

January 03, 2019/ Hannah Heckart

Every Thursday night CO:bots students meet in the event space of theCO to practice building and operating their VEX Robots. At a glance, one might never know that the kids quietly tinkering and constructing in the back of the building are actually engineering some of the finest robots in the area and offer some fierce competition for other VEX students.

December 20, 2018

A Recap of 2018 from theCO

December 20, 2018/ Jameson Winter

It’s time again to reflect on all the goings on from the past year at theCO! Last year we saw some impressive growth from many of our members’ businesses, and this year we tried to take a page out of their business strategy books. We have tripled the size of our team in 2018, adding many new positions and expanding theCO in some amazing ways.

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