Meet Sidebar: Student programmer creates popular Android app at CodeDay Seattle

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We’re pretty geeky up here in the Pacific Northwest. With messenger bags full of the latest Windows gear and too many new startups to count, we’re in no short supply of tech gurus. So it’s no surprise that in Seattle we have StudentRND preparing high school techies for the real world that awaits them. StudentRND’s multi-annual CodeDay hackathon took… Read More…

StudentRND members launch Kickstarter for radiation detector, raise $13K in one week

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Some Kickstarter campaigns fail to get off the ground and never reach funding goals. A project created by two members of the StudentRND community, however, is having a much different experience. Matt Chapman and David Stoyanov are developing an APOC Mini Radiation Detector to make it easy and efficient to monitor radiation. They launched their campaign… Read More…

Meet the 7 startup teams in StudentRND’s summer incubator

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Jared, Jerry, Anwell, (not pictured- Dylan)

We’ve written about StudentRND in the past, and we’re always impressed with the projects that these students are kicking around. Earlier this year, the tech-oriented program announced plans for an all-student-run startup incubator aimed at high school and college kids — a place to build and test business ideas alongside likeminded students. I recently made a trip StudentRND’s… Read More…

Y Combinator for high-school kids? It’s students only at this new startup incubator

Edward Jiang and Tyler Menezes

StudentRND has been gathering geeky and entrepreneurial high school and college kids for weekend hackathons for three years now. Now, co-founder Edward Jiang is looking to expand his growing empire, launching a new 8-week tech incubator this summer that’s modeled on successful programs like TechStars and Y Combinator. “It makes sense: Students they want to… Read More…

From plasma speakers to robotic pipe organs: Meet the inventors of ‘StudentRND’

At work on the robotic PVC pipe organ at StudentRND

A lot of folks have been lamenting the state of education, wondering if the U.S. will lose its edge in the critical areas of science and engineering. Those naysayers haven’t met Edward Jiang. The 20-year-old University of Washington computer science student spends his spare time running StudentRND, a Bellevue skunk works of sorts where high-school… Read More…