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Last year, Do Space issued a challenge to the community: Omaha women are underrepresented in technical roles, and they are underrepresented in business. What's your big idea to change Omaha for the better? The 2019 Do Space Women Innovators Fellowship is a competitive, 6-month experience that has challenged three Fellows to develop new resources and tools to promote the advancement of women...

Since my last post, I’ve been interviewing women in the tech industry for the upcoming launch of Remoter.tech, a resource website and job board that I am building for the wider Omaha community through my Do Space Women Innovators Fellowship project. It has been a refreshing opportunity to connect with women who are doing amazing things in their industries.  I recently interviewed Joanna...

Being a part of the Do Space Women Innovators Fellowship Program has been such a rewarding experience. Speaking to women about their stories and how they chose their majors has been eye-opening -- and I’m excited to share my results with the Do Space community at the August 3rd Fellowship Showcase. I’m grateful to the folks who I have gotten to talk to already. We have a lot of amazing women...

Summer is quickly approaching which means finding fun, engaging, and hopefully educational activities for the kiddos when school ends. Look no further than Do Space! Do Space has free programming all year long but we'll have even more throughout June and July which will keep kids' minds fresh and sharp, helping prevent the dreaded summer slide! On top of our usual youth program like Kid...

Hi Friends - we've been getting questions on how to set up an Omaha Gives! Cheer Page and what a Cheer Page even is! I'm here to take you step by step through the process so that you're all set for tomorrow's big day. Buckle up, there are A LOT of ¡¡exclamation points!! in this post: Cheer Pages are another way you can participate in tomorrow's Omaha Gives! charity event. They are similar to...

If there is one thing Omaha excels at it's supporting its non-profits! Nothing shows this more than the upcoming 7th annual Omaha Gives! extravaganza. Don't know what this event is all about? Let me break it down for you: Omaha Gives! is an all online giving celebration that allows you to shower your favorite non-profits with some much needed assistance. This year's event will be held on...

Starting June 1st, Do Space kicks off a summer full of programs for all ages with the new Passport and Do List. Summer Passports Helping combat the summer slide, our Summer Passport program for ages 3-12 provides a free resource that engages children from all socio-economic backgrounds in tech-related educational activities, from coding to 3D printing basics. Collecting passport stamps...

During summer months we often talk about the summer slide keeping kids actively engaged in learning, even during the summer so they're ready to head back to school in the fall. We never talk about adults, though. Several studies have shown that lifelong learning helps keep us mentally sharp, improve our confidence,  and sharpen our interpersonal, communication and job skills. So, how long...

In our Winter 2019 Make.Hack.Build. session, ten participants spent twelve weeks learning how to create interactive films and games with virtual reality. They used Unreal to quickly create prototypes and they showed them off to the public. Six participated in Make Omaha A walk in the forest by Trisha Trisha made an interactive forest scene where you can check out animals up close. Flooding by...

Too many women entrepreneurs experience challenges as a result of doing it all alone. The women’s empowerment movement encourages us to ‘collaborate over compete’ and to lift each other up, but the path to collaboration is not always clear.  As a woman entrepreneur, I was all too familiar with this problem. I soon found out that I wasn’t alone in experiencing the time-consuming and...