March 2020

FIRST, WE HOPE you’re all well and staying that way. The coronavirus has created a whole new meaning to the term “March Madness.” Most of us in the Tech world are planners, and we generally have a backup plan if our original plan fails. COVID-19 has pushed us past our backup plans to a new […]

** MEET CAITLYN HALLETT Age: 23 Hometown: Vilonia Apprenticeship: First Orion ** MY BACK STORY I’m actually the first in my family to graduate college. We moved around a lot but I mostly grew up in Vilonia with my mother and spent my summers in Delaware, which is where my dad lives. So, I’m 80

DATA SCIENCE, PLAN B. How today’s quick adaptation to COVID-19 mirrors the teaching of data science itself Stephen Addison, Ph.D.Dean, College of Natural Sciences and MathematicsUniversity of Central Arkansas AT UCA, WE are primarily a face-to-face campus, so transforming ourselves to an online university for the coronavirus is a big change for us. One thing

CEO, Forge Institute LEE WATSON’S LINKED-IN page lists his occupation as “serial entrepreneur/innovator,” and indeed he has tended to be wherever the action is, be it as CEO of his own software company, Founding Champion of Startup Arkansas, co-founder, director, and former head of the Venture Center, or as a member of Governor Hutchinson’s State