This is interesting for many reasons. First, Boulder is considered a Mecca of innovation although anybody that lives and works here knows that is not necessarily true. There are a lot of restraints to starting up in BoCo, especially seeing as how we are looking in to the research, development, and high tech realm. Sure, software development is great and all for Boulder and in those regards it is like the Silicon Mountains. But that is not what we aim to do.
Which is why we are heading up north to Ft. Collins. We are looking at collaborating with CSU, the Innosphere, Power Mountain Engineering, and the St. Vrain Valley School District to open up our first lab.
Right now we have two primary people running our operations. Come mid-November they will look to garner more strategic partnerships and community interest.
As far as development and next steps are concerned, we will be giving white paper and elevator pitches (next post will be a how to) at a meeting to gather funding, at STEMComm, and at the STEM Ed round table.
Additionally, the founder and CEO, Siouxsie Downs, is amidst applying for the Thiel Fellowship grant to continue developing humanitarian engineering projects as well as IQCO laboratoriums.
The next steps are really focused on partners and potential members. We are hoping to have an initial plan in the next two months to getting our first lab fully funded or at least space acquired. Then we can begin to turn out attention to creating an awesome community for people to learn and build.
Cheers and happy hacking,
IQCO Mgmt
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