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Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning (Unless it's a holiday. I hope you had a great Memorial Day)!
This past week has been amazing!! Thursday night my Go Code Colorado team, MentorMatter, was one of 3 teams that won a $25,000 contract with the State of Colorado. I worked as a developer on the team to create our site using the Meteor JavaScript framework. I had no prior knowledge of Meteor before the challenge so it was amazing to be able to re-familiarize myself with JavaScript, learn Meteor and contribute to the project all in less than a month. Phew!
This weekend my wife and I got to experience our first ever Comic Con at Denver Comic Con thanks to 2 passes I won from the CTA C-Level event (Thanks for that, by the way)! It was overwhelming, amazing, fun, crazy and amazing (yes, I know I said amazing twice). I loved that Denver Comic Con featured local game development companies and maker spaces with their own section. I would list them all, but I'm afraid I would leave some out. It was so inspiring talking to Colorado authors, artists and developers who get to make a living being creative everyday.
I could go on and on about the Go Code Colorado Challenge and Denver Comic Con and I probably will in separate blog posts, but you didn't open this post to read about that so without further ado...
Upcoming Events- 5/28 - CommercialTribe - QA Night
- 5/28 - Fort Collins Startup Week - Talent Collision/Job Fair
- 5/28 - IPSO Alliance - CHALLENGE 2015 Brainstorming Hackathon
- 5/28 - WomenWhoCode - Java Study Group
- 5/30 - Turing Community Events - Turing Community Night: Lightning Talk Edition
- 5/31 - Zayo Group - Colorado's First Tech Start-Up Triathlon!
- 6/1 - Galvanize - Full Stack Immersive Info Session
- 6/2 - BDNT - New Tech Boulder
- 6/2 - DOSUG - JSON at Work: Schema
- 6/2 - Xero - Developer Day
- Boulder's Sphero launches new Darkside robot toy [InnovatioNews]
- Hosting a summer intern? Join Colorado Technology Foundation's cohort! [CTA]
- 6 awesome tech companies in Colorado you want to work for right now [BuiltinColorado]
- Denver Comic Con exhibitor, Boulder-based Serenity Forge overcomes odds to mingle gaming with education (Slideshow) [DBJ]
- 5 job openings at Colorado tech startups that'll exercise your creative muscles [BuiltinColorado]
- Denver man hacked airliners but he can't say what he's learned (yet) [DBJ]
- 5 places anybody can learn to code in Colorado [BuiltinColorado]
- Go Code Colorado awards three teams $25,000 contracts with Secretary of State [InnovatioNews]
- Scott McNealy, founder of Sun Microsystems, takes the helm at Denver tech startup Wayin [DBJ]
- Denver's Welltok acquires Predilytics to enhance health analytics [InnovatioNews]
If you know of any other good news stories or sources about tech in Colorado, please let me know!
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