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Serena Ramirez Serena Ramirez

Digital NEST Celebrates 10 Years!

2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Digital NEST, an organization that aims to empower Latine youth entering into the digital economy.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

When Good Tech Almost Goes Bad

Local historian Gregg Herken describes “Project Pluto”, a development program for a nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered ramjet missile at the Livermore lab in the late-1950s. What could possibly go wrong…

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Santa Cruz Works New Tech April 2021

Spring is here! We have a fresh crop of companies presenting to you. Hayley Mears with MBEP will kick off our event to let job seekers know about the opportunities now available.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Part 1: Is Silicon Valley Invading Santa Cruz?

Over the next three weeks, Santa Cruz Works will look at Santa Cruz’s “unique” housing crisis. Is tech to blame? We’ll be holding data up right up next to local culture and politics to see if they overlap.

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Adrian Dolatschko Adrian Dolatschko

CruzHacks 2021 - Join Now!

CruzHacks brings together a community of students and professionals to design solutions for real world problems, with the inclusion of tech.

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