Guest Commentary

Are We Playing STEM or Building Future Workers?

An educational nonprofit head urges a citywide push to prepare low-income children for real jobs and real futures

By Sean Vereen

Code for Cancer

In a rebuke to the closed world of scientific research, a group of volunteer coders helped a Penn lab take on cancer

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Droppin’ The Mic

The city’s Amazon pitch paints a thrilling picture of a vibrant, innovative city. Now it’s time to get the political class in the city and state to sign on

By Larry Platt

Tech for Philly

Startup guru Bob Moul has turned his attention to pushing computer science education in Philly schools. Is he the evangelist we need?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
The Citizen Recommends

Katrina Stevens

As part of a Drexel series on rethinking learning, the tech ed entrepreneur and former Obama advisor will explore the best uses of technology in the classroom

By Jamie Bogert
Meet the Disruptor

Techgirlz

Through free tech classes to middle school girls in Philly, the nonprofit hopes to shape the technology industry into a more equitable place for everyone

By Quinn O'Callaghan

False Prophets?

Mark Zuckerberg and other technoplutocrats are calling for a Universal Basic Income as a way to narrow income disparity. Should we buy what they’re selling?

By Ajay Raju
Meet the Disruptor

Keriton

The Philly-based startup is changing the way NICUs track breast milk—and hoping to help turn around the nation’s high rate of preemie deaths

By Quinn O'Callaghan
Weekend Read

All Aboard

Just what might a high-speed rail revolution mean for Philly? And do we have the guts to make the dream real?

By Larry Platt
Meet The Disruptor

QSPACES

Queer and trans people have worse health outcomes than the general public. A local couple is trying to change that with a Yelp-like doctors app for LGBTQ Philadelphians

By Emma Copley Eisenberg