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Techstars Directors Support Dream Tank
From Left: New Dream Tank project manager Philippe Boury, Executive Director Heidi Cuppari, Dream Maker Amalia Rose Battle, and Techstars Co-Founder David Cohen
On Friday December 13, David Cohen hosted a breakfast for friends of his to hear our pitch. We were joined by Philippe Boury, a social entrepreneur and self proclaimed “Earthling” who just joined the Dream Tank team from Chicago. One of our Dream Makers, Amalia, volunteered to help write the pitch and meet David. She applied all of her Dream Tank skills after going to 4 Dream Tank programs over the past couple years, and knocked it out of the park! He and his colleagues made donations and have pledged a match to help Dream Tank raise funds and create a sustainable revenue model, offer scholarships, and more.
They all suggested we share this with our community to help with this goal:
Techstars co-founders David Cohen and David Brown, and Techstars co-founder and Foundry Group partner Brad Feld and his wife Amy Bachelor’s Anchor Point Foundation as well as Krista Marks and Brent Milne of Woot Math have committed to matching your Dream Tank donations up to $40,000 when pledged before year end. They see how kids’ creativity, combined with entrepreneurship and design thinking, can change the world!
- Watch this video of Amalia, a 10 year old Dream Maker. After seeing Amalia’s pitch in person, Dream Tank got some the above commitments. In addition to the matches we will be on their #GiveFirst podcast early next year, they will help us create a sustainable revenue model, and Techstars staffers are volunteering to help us set up our operations for scale.
NOW is the time for youth ideas to be heard to create a better future!
Please schedule a 1:1 meeting with our Executive Director and Amalia to hear our pitch, or give online through the button below!
Dream Tank Kids and Teens launch Plastic Free Colorado
On December 7, on their third planning meeting, Dream Tank kids launch “Plastic Free Colorado” with State Representative Jonathan Singer. Read and watch the coverage by CBS news below!
Covered by CBS 4 Denver.
Youth tackle challenge to help veterans through technology
Dream Tank Dream Makers, despite the snow, power through one big design challenge: innovate a b corporation to help Veterans! “Hacking for Heroes” was scheduled for two days, but because of the pending snow storm, when realizing they wouldn’t be able to come back the next day, the Dream Makers voted to stay until 8pm to finish their initial prototypes and designs. They pitched their ideas “Dream Tank Show” style. We will be publishing more videos, stay tuned!
Read more in the Daily Camera Article here
Great quotes from the article:
“It’s kind of a choose-your-own-adventure entrepreneurship challenge,” said program coordinator Melissa Ivey.
“We invited students to take their love of technology and align it with something purposeful,” said Heidi Cuppari, the chief of Dream Tank.
“The kids are going to be my focus group and my designers,” Debi Stack said. “The kids get to be advisers and they get to be a part of my company.”
Amalia Rose Battle Cordova, a 10-year-old from Boulder, said she liked the experiential format of the session and the opportunity for “kids to use their own ideas to help adults.”
Kids and Teens Save Lives with Tech during Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 25-26 @ CU Idea Forge
Virtual, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence have changed ‘reality’ as we know it.
Your children are growing into a world where these emerging technologies will be common tools, and toys in their lives.
Fortune 100 executive Debi Stack is asking your kids to collaborate in realizing new software with cutting edge technology, to save the lives of veterans, children and families in our community.
How can we use VR, AR, and AI to improve quality of life, enrich human connections, nourish healthy families and build thriving community?
Boulder’s 10-17 year olds, with the help of Dream Tank, mentors, and veterans will go through a DREAM – DESIGN – LAUNCH process with Debi, and a panel of experts participating, then leading a review, selecting advisors, and collaborators, on Tuesday afternoon.
Parents, get a little time back during Thanksgiving break, and give your kids a chance to make their community, and our world, a little better, and brighter for us all.
Event Details:
Monday, Nov 25 & Tuesday, Nov 26
9 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. both days
Location: Idea Forge at CU, in the Fleming Building
2445 Kittredge Loop Dr, Boulder, CO 80309