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StepUp Event Recap: Students, Ideas and Lessons in Collaboration

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A couple of weeks ago, I was a judge for Step-Up Achieve’s High Tech Innovation Day. The daylong event, hosted by Fueled Collective, brought students from the Greater Twin Cities area together to create innovative solutions to difficult problems like summer melt, financial literacy, access to clean water, and food deserts. Students are broken into groups, and …

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Recap: Inspired by students of STEP-UP Achieve

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A little over a week ago, on a Saturday afternoon, I went to Fueled Collective’s downtown location to be a guest judge at the STEP-UP Entrepreneur-in-Training Day. My thoughts about the day are best summarized by this tweet: Anyone who complains about “kids these days” clearly hasn’t met the students of #StepUpAchieve. //@Fueled CollectiveMSP @GoogleForEntrep — Meghan Wilker …

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