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Dallas Innovates
Photo by Michael Samples.
Drone Technology Takes Off with Business Users
by Michael Vidikan | Feb 26, 2016
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drone aircraft, have been used extensively in commercial practice in recent years.
by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Feb 26, 2016
To hear 21-year-old Param Jaggi speak, millennials are on a mission to save the world.
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by Patrick Kobler |
Feb 26, 2016
Holy Trinity Catholic School (HTCS) has turned morning announcements into a multimedia learning experience, and students, faculty, and parents aren't the only ones tuning in. Upwards of 600,000 people worldwide are watching students at the Dallas grade school deliver the daily HTCS Morning News show.
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by Tara Nieuwesteeg |
Feb 25, 2016
In the early ‘90s, Texas Instruments Foundation had a problem. Simply put, the young children in their beneficiary Head Start programs weren’t ready for school. The kids didn’t perform well in kindergarten testing and showed a distinct lack of “academic readiness.”
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Photo by Michael Samples.
Why is the Dallas Skyline Purple?
by Jana J. Pruet | Feb 25, 2016
Before we get to the purple skyline, we want to tell you what's been happening at Dallas Innovates since our website launched in December.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Feb 25, 2016
Nick Padlo, owner of The Pet Loss Center, had to really look to find his niche in the multibillion-dollar pet industry.
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by Jeremy Vickers |
Feb 24, 2016
If you are an entrepreneur, you need to know there are people, places and programs in North Texas that are designed to help you be successful.
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by Matt Houston |
Feb 12, 2016
My takeaway from my experiences (and advice to existing companies/organizations) is to infuse more millennials into your decision-making processes. Don’t just hire them—empower them.
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McKinney Boyd Engineering Students’ Living Legacy
by Patrick Kobler | Feb 11, 2016
The living roof project is a solution, providing McKinney Boyd’s engineering club the opportunity for a hands on approach to learning –- one that puts classroom concepts into engaged learning with the community. The project has also given the young scholars exposure to professional engineers and paved inroads to future careers in the STEM fields.
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by Tara Nieuwesteeg |
Feb 11, 2016
The Brazen Animation headquarters, not far from NorthPark Center, is a low-lit space filled with cartoons in the making. None of its handful of animators appear to be working on the same thing or even the same style of things. Their computer screens flash with a mix of stylized 2-D characters, beautiful digital paintings, and once-flat scenes are freshly rendered into three glorious dimensions.
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by Cheri Garcia |
Feb 10, 2016
In honor of National Inventors Day, I wanted to bring awareness to the hard work behind the inventions we see every day in retail stores.
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by Melanie Ferguson |
Feb 10, 2016
Written in 1985, the essays in "Imagining Dallas" evoked images of the city’s formation and evolution, its good ol’ myths as well as possible futures for the ever-aspirational Dallas, Texas. Leaders from a variety of disciplines, including Wick Allison, James Pratt, Robert Sardello, and Dr. Gail Thomas, contributed to the thoughtful book but it is the great educator Dr. Louise Cowan’s chapter that informed my perception of Dallas with a new civic sense of education and responsibility.
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It’s not every day that coders, engineers, and startup founders spend their weekend tackling a nationally recognized tragedy. Much less invest their resources into a project that is 1,205 miles away. But that is exactly what Startup Weekend Dallas is doing — and they are doing it big.
Dallas’ Fight for Flint
by Damian Skinner | Feb 9, 2016
It’s not every day that coders, engineers, and startup founders spend their weekend tackling a nationally recognized tragedy. Much less invest their resources into a project that is 1,205 miles away. But that is exactly what Startup Weekend Dallas is doing — and they are doing it big.
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by Patrick Kobler |
Feb 9, 2016
We connected with Dr. Theodora Ross, author of A Cancer in the Family, on why she came to DFW, UT Southwestern’s work in cancer genetics, and for her thoughts on how we can battle cancer more effectively.
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by Patrick Kobler |
Feb 9, 2016
At any given moment, thirteen million people in the United States have cancer. For each of those thirteen million, there are family members who are wondering: Is this cancer part of a pattern? Does cancer run in my family? Am I at risk?
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by Tara Nieuwesteeg |
Feb 8, 2016
In 2013, Jody and Max Wall began growing a handful of vegetables and herbs using an aeroponic garden system called the Tower Garden. This effective, simple approach to gardening got them thinking: What if this kind of farming was done in Dallas—on a large scale?
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