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Dallas Creatives Get Power Boost at Art Conference That Means Business

by | Jun 21, 2025
ArtBoost Dallas returns June 27–28 with strategies for artists to build sustainable careers and create meaningful change. Powered by the Business Council for the Arts, SMU, KERA, and The Dallas Morning News, the two-day event brings together creatives across music, design, dance, theater, writing, and visual art.
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Dallas College Engineering Team Wins Third in U.S. Innovation Challenge With LiDAR-Based Aviation Safety Tech
by | Jun 18, 2025
The student-built startup concept aims to reduce aircraft fatalities—and caught NASA’s eye.
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Aviation Safety: Dallas College Team Advances to Community College Innovation Challenge Finals
by | May 7, 2025
The Dallas College team's solution is AVIADAR, a LiDAR-based system that provides pilots with real-time alerts about their surroundings. The four team members will head to Washington, D.C., next month for a boot camp, a Capitol Hill poster session, and a pitch presentation against 11 other teams from around the U.S.
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CREW to the Rescue: Dallas College Launches Center to Address Texas Teacher Shortage
by | Apr 2, 2025
Dallas College said the Center for Reigniting the Educator Workforce will support school systems and institutions of higher education in building high-quality teacher apprenticeships that manage the financial burden and make it possible for aspiring educators to become teachers.
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Dallas College Launches Bitcoin Mining Program Featuring Take-Home Mining Machines

by | Dec 5, 2024
Along with hands-on instruction, Bitcoin Mining program participants will receive powerful industry equipment and materials—including their own mining machine to take home.
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The Last Word: Amazon Web Services’ Valerie Singer on the AWS Jobs Tech Alliance Coming to Texas
by | Aug 5, 2024
In the Lone Star State, tech isn't just big—it's booming. With high-tech jobs growing at twice the speed of overall state job growth, Texas has an appetite for tech talent. Enter Amazon Web Services (AWS) with its Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance, a recipe for bridging the tech skills gap.
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Dallas College Team Advances to National Community College Innovation Challenge Finals

by | Apr 30, 2024
A team from Dallas College reached the finals for its AMBER autonomous fire-detection system, which uses drones to alert farmers and local authorities about fire risks. The team will join 11 other finalists at an "Innovation Boot Camp" in Washington, D.C. before a final pitch decides who's No. 1.
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D CEO and Dallas Innovates revealed the winners of the 2024 Innovation Awards at an event on January 24, 2023 held at On the Levee in the Design District.
Meet the Winners:
D CEO, Dallas Innovates Honor Top Innovators at 2024 Awards
At the annual Innovation Awards event, Dallas Innovates and D CEO revealed the winners in 17 categories and recognized all 74 North Texas finalists.
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Dallas-Based Tricolor Foundation Announces $200K In Gifts To Support Higher Education in Hispanic Communities
by | Dec 18, 2023
“Our mission is to clear the path so that every member of our Hispanic communities has the opportunity to reach their full potential," said Regina Montoya, the foundation's executive director.
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Dallas College Receives $1M Job Training Grant From Texas Workforce Commission
by | Dec 7, 2023

A Skills Development Fund (SDF) grant award totaling $1,009,383 to Dallas College by the Texas Workforce Commission in partnership with Mint Dentistry, Kpost Company, Kpost Roofing, On-Target Supplies and Logistics, and The Richards Group was announced Thursday by Gov....

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Slice for a Cause: 4th Annual Dallas Piehole Project Raises Funds for Culinary Scholarships

by | Oct 19, 2023
The Piehole Project, a Dallas-based "virtual pie auction," is back for its fourth year October 19-29. Crafted by 27 Dallas chefs, this year's pies have a "Superheroes" theme and will raise money for grants that support continuing education within restaurant and hospitality-focused nonprofits.
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Dallas College and Jobs for the Future Team Up on Innovation Challenge for the ‘Next Big Idea’ in VR and XR Tech for Small Businesses
by | Oct 13, 2023
Jobs for the Future, a national nonprofit, and Dallas College are hosting an Innovation Challenge the week of October 16 "to allow Dallas-based small business owners and community visionaries to partner with technology developers to discover the next big idea" in VR technology.
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Ready to Level Up Your Business? Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program Application is Fast Approaching
by | Sep 22, 2023

Entrepreneurs who want to take their small business to the next level can apply for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.

Free to participants, a 12-week program, facilitated in North Texas by Dallas College, focuses on business growth and provides education, a network of small business leaders and advisors, and access to capital....

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Lyda Hill Philanthropies Awards Texas Woman’s University Grant for New STEM Pathways
by | Aug 25, 2023
The project started with a successful pilot earlier this year. The new grant will fund one-day experiential STEM learning opportunities for 100 community college students from Dallas College, North Central Texas College, and Tarrant County College, and paid, two-week internships for 10 students.
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