Digest #181



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EDGE Mobile Payments announces a partnership with Nuvation Engineering for development of the EDGE Card, its flagship product. 30 years in the making, the creators of Maniac Mansion release Thimbleweed Park. Cabrillo's Robotics club is preparing to complete in the national NASA Swarmathon at Kennedy Space Center. herScript Hacks will focus on agtech at this year's hackathon in Salinas. TagDat's app is now available for download.

As usual, there's more, so scroll down and start reading!

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EDGE Mobile Payments partners with Nuvation Engineering for development of the EDGE Card. Read this article.


Welcome to Thimbleweed Park. Population: 80 nutcases. 30 years in the making, creators of Maniac Mansion release Thimbleweed Park. Read this article.
 

Matthew Swinnerton of Event Santa Cruz joins Santa Cruz Works as Program Director. Read this article.
 

herScript Hacks will focus on agtech at this year's hackathon in Salinas, April 29-30. Read this article.
 

"A brand is an annuity for the future," says Hap Klopp. Listen to this former head of The North Face share his stories of leadership at a recent SC New Tech Meetup. Watch the video.


Cabrillo College Robotics Club prepares to compete in National NASA Swarmathon competition at Kennedy Space Center. Read this article
 

UCSC undergraduate Regine De Guzman has been selected to speak about gender inequity in technology at TEDx in Los Gatos. Read this article.


TagDat's app is now available for download. The startup's 17-year-old COO wants to take on Yelp, and has the seed funding to attempt it. Read the article.


The second Santa Cruz Arts & Technology Festival ignites a week of activities on May 10. First, they're calling for entries. Read the article
 
 
 
 
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