We added a new pod of desks, and we made them in the Maker Labs. Over the past few months, we’ve added a lot of new members, so we needed create some more space.
Our hotseats are the easiest and most affordable membership level we offer on a month-to-month basis. But what are they? Hotseats are open-area workstations that are available to members and day pass users on a first-come, first-served basis. They don’t have permanent owners and cannot be formally reserved.
Longtime Groover Labs member and Flint Hills Group founder Dave Cunningham launched the Whiskey Shelf app at the beginning of 2023. In February, the app went live on the App Store and Google Play. Read the latest updates about what Dave and his team are up to, how they came up with Whiskey Shelf (including experience with Campfire), and more!
We are thrilled to receive funding from the Building a Stronger Economy (BASE) 2.0 economic development grant for our CyberLink Infrastructure Expansion Project. BASE funds are intended to address infrastructure and economic development needs, and our grant award will allow us to continue critical projects we had to cancel or delay because of the Covid-19 global pandemic.
We’re pleased to host a lunchtime talk featuring Kaylee Philbrick-Theuerkauf, founder of The Exceptional Plan, at noon on Friday, September 29, 2023. Bring your own lunch, and we’ll provide the cookies! The event is free and open to the public.
We want to extend a special thanks to Seth Etter, president of devICT, for presenting at your first lunchtime talk last Friday, September 16.
We’re partnering with devICT, Wichita’s local developer community, to host a series of lunchtime talks focused on the third Friday of September, October, and November, from 12-1 p.m., in our hotseat area. Free for Groover Labs members; $10 suggested donation for non-members.
We sat down with Ashley Scheideman, executive director of FalgshipKansas.Tech, to talk about their upcoming Ad Astra Technology Summit on 9/12. FlagshipKansas.Tech is one of the longest-serving members at Groover Labs, and we love having them in the building.
Congratulations to Ramsey Jamoul and his team at Unified eSports Association. They completed their inaugural fall 2020 season, and they distributed more than $26,500 in scholarships to Unified Collegiate Esports Association teams who placed in the top four for each game.
Our tech talk on 9/22 presented a new series of logistical AV challenge. Switching to a digital encoder and YouTube Live created a richer and more diverse show.
We're excited to announce Clint Brauer and Steven Gentner of Greenfield Robotics as the next guests in our ongoing speaker series on Thursday, October 15, at 4:30 p.m. Greenfield Robotics develops robots that enable farmers to implement carbon farming on a global scale, and without agrichemicals.
Today we’re announcing the second speaker for our monthly speaker series at Groover Labs. On Tuesday, September 22, at 4:30 p.m., data scientist Jennifer Akers will talk about the emerging field of data science and the important role data scientists play in retail, fintech, logistics and more.
We’re going to be living in the Covid-19 world for quite a while, and we can’t just put our community activities on hold. This is a way for us to reach out to people who want to network and participate in an event from home while also creating a place where people can gather safely.
