Looking for a grant to help start up your FLL team? Each year, the Shenandoah Valley Technology Council sponsors up to three new FIRST LEGO League (FLL) teams from the Shenandoah Valley. Approximately half of the start-up cost of a new team is reimbursed, up to $350.
To be eligible, teams must be located in the footprint of the Shenandoah Valley Technology Council’s area of operation. Applicants must also intend participate in the FLL competition within one year of receiving the grant. This grant can be used towards any equipment required for competition in FIRST LEGO League, including one or more LEGO robotics kits, a competition practice table, and an FLL field setup kit.
FLL was created through a partnership between FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and the LEGO company and inspires future scientists and engineers. it is an international competition that challenges young participants to think like scientists and engineers. Every year FLL introduces kids to a real-world scientific topic, and teams are challenged to find a solution. They also build a robot and compete in a friendly, FIRST-style robotics event specially designed for their age group.
About the local / Virginia league: Your state and local -Virginia and Shen. Valley- connection to FLL is VA-DC FLL (https://va-dcfll.org/), located in Harrisonburg. Virginia is one of the largest leagues in the world with over 600 teams. Start a conversation with Kaitlin and crew and see how you can get involved, right here in the Shen. Valley. (https://va-dcfll.org/who-we-are/)
Science and technology leaders are made, not born.
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Registration Open:
SVTC Fall Tech Mixer (9/22)
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September, 22 2021 | 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Beyond Restaurant
You're invited to join us Wednesday, September 22 at Beyond Restaurant!
Feel free to invite a co-worker, customer, friend or spouse
(please register each).
We'll share what the SVTC is doing as an organization, what our members are doing individually, and how everyone can connect with the Valley's tech community. SVTC members are corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, coders, programmers and more. Some create tech - others 'only use' tech. Membership is not required to attend! Appetizers are on us, and coconut shrimp are definitely on the menu again!
RSVP to the SVTC Fall Tech Mixer at
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Streamed live for registered technology council members only, via Zoom.
Featuring Code VA, a non-profit that partners with schools, parents, and communities to bring equitable computer science education to all of Virginia’s students.
Presented by the Richmond Technology Council (rvatech/), the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC), the Hampton Roads Innovation Collaborative, the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council (RBTC), and the Shenandoah Valley Tech Council (SVTC).
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Meet Former Governor Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe is a lifelong entrepreneur and previously served as the 72nd governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2014-2018. As governor, Terry focused on making the Commonwealth welcome and inclusive and building a 21st century economy that created jobs and expanded economic opportunity for Virginians.
During his tenure, Terry brought 200,000 jobs to the Commonwealth, reduced unemployment, and raised personal income over 13%. He invested in workforce development and infrastructure, laid the groundwork for Virginia to be a national leader in clean energy, and helped build a solid cyber ecosystem in the Commonwealth.
He and his wife Dorothy have been married for over 30 years and have five children. They live in McLean with their dogs Daisy and Trooper.
[** Conversation with Gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin pending **]
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Big Data and the Labor Market (8/17)
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August 17, 2021 | 11:45 am - 12:45 pm | Virtual
(Hampton Roads Innovation Collaborative)
[Passing on info for en event by our fellow tech council]
Does your organization use labor market data to make strategic, economic, organizational, or sub-par decisions? Are you still using “key words” for fuzzy semantic searches and shotgun matching on a job-by-job basis?
Welcome to the big labor data revolution! See how a state-of-the-art Context Learning Engine (AI/Big Data) can align job seekers with jobs they’re qualified for. Learn how companies can more easily find qualified employees for open positions with just a few profile inputs and minimal clicking on initial opportunities.
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Startup Shenandoah Valley (S2V)
Cohort Starts October 1
(App. deadline 8/27)
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Startup Shenandoah Valley (S2V) enables you to take your business to the next level. Learn to address the riskiest parts of your business model with flexible one-on-one coaching during S2V’s 8-week sprint. Gain valuable insight from our mentorship program and continue the learning and support by joining a diverse community of entrepreneurs and resource providers through our alumni network and ongoing programming.
Startup Shenandoah Valley is a hybrid program that combines the strengths of accelerator and incubator models. The program delivers online coaching to identify and address the riskiest parts of each entrepreneur’s business model. Participants will join a cohort with access to the best resource providers, mentors, and investors in and beyond the region. This powerful network and flexible online guidance are what make S2V unique. S2V is offered to participants at no charge and without equity requirements.
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Dark Reading: Technology Journalism (9/2) |
September 2, 2021 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Virtual
Dark Reading: Technology Journalism
with Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor
Register by September 1, 9:00 am
Dark Reading is one of the most widely-read cybersecurity news sites on the Web by thought-leading security researchers, CISOs, and technology specialists, along with thousands of other security professionals. Come listen to this presentation see how journalism and technology can be joined for an amazing career.
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InnoVault | September Pitch Night 2021 (9/10)
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September 10, 2021 | 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm
InnoVault, Winchester
Reserve your seat as an audience participant by getting one of the Attend tickets or apply to pitch by getting one of the Apply to Pitch Tickets.
If you would like to pitch your business idea please continue to read!
Do you have a business idea but you’re just not sure how or where to begin? Do you know there’s an opportunity to scale your current business but just need some expert advice or funding to get you there? Do you have questions about patents, intellectual property, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, getting investors? This is Your Opportunity to pitch your idea for a new Product, Service, Business OR your idea to scale your current business to a panel of business experts and investors!
Crystel Lynn Smith, Virginia's Most Sought Ager High-Performance Coach and Founder of Crystel Clear Business Strategies, and Innovault, Winchester's Idea LaunchPad, are once again launching Pitch Night 2021!
3 Selected entrepreneurs (and or people with cool or crazy ideas) will be provided with
- Live training, (via Zoom) with Alex Skinner, economic anthropologist, CFO of startup IP Haus, and Founder of InnoVault Coworking, through his proven Pitch Masterclass
- Alex’s step by step template to creating and perfecting your pitch
- Opportunity to Pitch to Investors, Entrepreneurs, Financial Gurus and other Business Experts
- Feedback from the experts
- Exposure on any of the following media platforms utilized for Pitch Night 2021
- Social Media
- Television
- Radio
- Newspaper
The winner of Pitch Night 2021 will receive:
- One-Month of business coaching with High-Performance Business Coach and Best-Selling Author, Crystel Lynn Smith ($1,200.00 value)
- One -Year Flex-Time Membership at Winchester’s sought after Innovault ($2,388 value)
- AND $1,000!
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Valley business Summit (9/21) |
September 21, 2021 | 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Plecker Center, Blue Ridge Community College
Join local business resources and state legislators to learn about the local business economy.
There will be a panel of business experts to cover various workforce topics as well as Q&A time with Delegates John Avoli, Ronnie Campbell, Chris Runion and Tony Wilt. Light morning refreshments will be provided.
Hosted by the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Harrisonburg Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, Shenandoah Valley Technology Council, Shenandoah Valley Partnership, Shenandoah Valley Small Business Development Center, Virginia Department of Small Business & Supplier Diversity, and Blue Ridge Community College.
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Annual Programs & Activities Input and Suggestions 2021 |
Suggest topics for events and luncheons, or better yet, join the events and programming committee! What tech topics are on your mind? What makes a techie's heart skip a beat? Is there an organization, program, team, or business location you'd like to hear from or visit?
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Traipse
Since 2014 we at Traipse have been working with local partners to develop and deploy gamified walking tours in historic business districts and other local cultural destinations such as museums, hotels, and campuses.
Along the way as Traipse grew we had many interactions with locally-owned small businesses. We also got to know even better the local tourism agencies and business development organizations that support them. We quickly learned that those organizations have few effective or quantifiable tools at their disposal, and that we could fill that need.
We’ve always planned to build an incentive mechanism within the Traipse app to reward users and content creators, but hadn’t yet been able to implement that system. Meanwhile, one of our local partners came to us asking for help to improve their downtown gift card and small business discount program. As we discussed their needs and began speaking with other clients about what we were working on, the unbridled enthusiasm we received in response to the project made us realize that we had just discovered a large, untapped opportunity.
To that end, we've begun building our My Local Token platform, and are seeking investors to help us launch it.
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Harrisonburg City Public Schools
Harrisonburg City Public Schools is a school system of excellence educating over 6000 students in grades PK-12. Our strength comes from our diverse student population where over 50 languages are spoken by our students. Our school system takes pride in providing a rigorous curriculum that includes many advanced placement, dual enrollment and honors level courses, a regional Governor's school for science, STEM Academies at middle school and high school, and outstanding foreign language, arts, music, journalism, and sports programs. HCPS has outstanding vocational, business and technical education programs including advanced computer labs, and a wide range of computer application opportunities for all students. We are also proud of our fine arts departments from bands to theater productions and everything in between. We are fortunate to have a supportive local community that values the importance of educating children and providing them the experiences and resources needed to be successful learners.
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Shenandoah Valley Open Tech Jobs |
- Several tech openings at Shogun including: Sr. Ruby Engineer, Sr. React Engineer, Customer Support Engineer, etc.
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Full-Stack Software Engineer | Sproutly | New Market
- 3D Developer - AR Support, The Scylla Group | Winchester
- Front End Developer, The Scylla Group | Winchester
GOT ADDITIONAL TECH JOBS THAT SHOULD BE PUBLICIZED?
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Have a Technology Event?
We'll Share it in our Newsletter and Calendar!
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Are you a local tech meetup/user-group or organization hosting an in-person or virtual tech event within the Shenandoah Valley?
With the recent impacts of COVID-19, we're looking to help promote all of the Valley's technology community events that have either gone digital or are going back to in-person by adding them to our newsletter and calendar
(our publicity).
Click the button below to share your event!
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Participate in the local tech conversation:
Rocktown Tech (Slack)
Currently there are 18 channels and over 450 members. Sign-up
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SVTC Members Invitation:
Display Your Membership Status
Membership Badge Available! Use our new graphic on your own website (and remember to link back to our website www. svtc-va.org!)
Choose the graphic file of your choice: SVTC Membership Badge. Let us know when you incorporate this graphic and we'll mention your site in return!
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Examples:
membership badge on their website!
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The Shenandoah Valley Technology Council does not endorse the companies, organizations, teams,
or events mentioned, or take a stand on any of the articles or notices or events included.
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Contact Us
Shenandoah Valley Technology Council
800 S. Main Street
MSC 3615
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
540-568-7882
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