The sixth annual Louisiana High School Online Technology Challenge will take place on Wednesday morning, February 15, 2012 with participation of many dozens of high schools across the state of Louisiana.  The Technology Challenge is an annual state-wide competition among high school students in Louisiana. Every high school in Louisiana can enter a single team composed of up to 15 [...]

Coders, developers, designers…start your engines! Varoom…..Varoom. Too much? Now that the “start your engine” cliché is behind us, let’s talk about Hack Dat; a code competition taking place in New Orleans on December 9th through December 11th.  Code competitions have become popular because they allow people to come together and create something with the help [...]

  If you are a developer or programmer, chances are you've at least heard about Drupal. (If you haven't, its the third largest content management system available.) Well, New Orleans, we have the honor and privilege of hosting this year's Drupal summit, Drupal on the Bayou. "It's a Drupal Summit, At a Casino, In New [...]

The New Orleans Jewish Community Center will host native New Orleanian Walter Isaacson at its Uptown campus on Thursday, November 17, as he speaks about his recently completed biography of Steve Jobs, the often controversial, visionary creator of Apple. The event will begin at 7:00 PM. Isaacson is the CEO of the Aspen Institute and [...]

Louisiana’s second Startup Weekend is scheduled for November 11-13 and will be held in downtown Baton Rouge at The Lyceum.   Startup Weekend is a 54-hour weekend event where developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and start-up enthusiast come together to share ideas, form teams and ultimately build products. Startup Weekend is a featured event of Global [...]