IT’S A SEA of black graduation gowns in the belly of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn one rainy Tuesday evening in June. On the floor of the stadium, where the basketball court should be, sit thousands of students awaiting the start of the 75th Commencem...
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How Dzana Homan ended up as the CEO of the music education franchise program School of Rock is almost as nonlinear as how she ended up studying in at New Mexico State University. A survivor of the Yugoslav Wars, Homan immigrated to the U.S. in 1995 with t...
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It’s quickly becoming the No. 1 choice for 20-something and 30-something career changers who are fed up with their current gigs and want to learn a valuable skill quickly. Coding—also called programming or software engineering—is the go-to field...
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Julia Cheiffetz wants Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to “make Amazon a more hospitable place for women and parents. Cheiffetz, who worked for Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) until July 2014, published a blog Wednesday detailing her experience working for the company i...
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Today we are reporting our diversity data. We are not the first technology company to report this and by now, you probably know what that blog post looks like. We are doing many of the same things other companies are doing and have already described. In t...
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Curiosity and passion are the driving forces behind most great inventions — from the discovery of electricity to the creation of the Internet. Because breakthroughs happen when someone, somewhere asks “How can this be done?” And has the d...
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We’re not going to build the best robots if we don’t have a diverse group of people producing them, says the head of nonprofit Silicon Valley Robotics. Andra Keay, managing director of the professional association that represents the robotics cluster ...
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Full tuition scholarship for a woman seeking an undergraduate degree in science, engineering, or math, funded by Cards Against Humanity. The Science Ambassador Scholarship is a full tuition scholarship for a woman seeking an undergraduate degree in scienc...
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Virgin Atlantic is looking to hire a “freelance flyer”—in fact, the brand wants to bring on a few people for the job. What’s interesting is that the job isn’t really a job at all. These freelance flyers get to name their own task...
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To ensure that every child can learn the skills required to work in New York City’s fast-growing technology sector, Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Wednesday that within 10 years all of the city’s public schools will be required to offer compute...
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