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Snowflake Creation
Families enjoyed making snowflake ornaments while learning TinkerCAD, an online free CAD program, and then how to "slice up" their snowflake for printing on the Berks LaunchBox 3D printers. There were 9 snowflake styles to choose from that could be customized with...
RACC Business Students Learn about Entrepreneurship
Fifty Reading Area Community College (RACC) business students and their instructor, Paula Mazurkiewicz, visited the Berks LaunchBox this week (over 3 days time) to learn about becoming entrepreneurs! Students learned that the Berks LaunchBox doesn't just support...
Meet Aidan Derr – Verde Mantis hire
Meet Aidan Derr, Penn State graduate and recent addition in Engineering and Design to the staff of coworking company, Verde Mantis. Aidan Derr graduated in May 2019 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State with two years of his time spent at Penn State...
Global Entrepreneurs Meetup: Latin American Perspectives
Our meetup held November 12, 2019, in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, showcased Latin American perspectives on cross-border business development. Our two speakers have had very different experiences yet are both highly technical individuals focused on...
Workplace Professionalism Class
Ten students completed a class on Workplace Professionalism offered in conjunction with the Literacy Council and taught at the Berks LaunchBox. Business English speaking and writing was taught in every class along with business etiquette and social skills development....
Pumpkin Palooza
The Berks LaunchBox team of Patty and Lisa had a great time helping children make 90 pompom pumpkin critters and tangrams at the Goggleworks Center for the Arts Pumpkin Palooza on Sunday 10/13! From preschoolers to teens – fun was had by all! Patty Leshinskie is a...
Intro to CAD & 3D Printing
A full house of seventeen people came to the Berks LaunchBox at the Goggleworks for their first of a four-night, free class: Introduction to 3D Printing. This class teaches basic CAD design with TinkerCad and how to do 3D printing, a type of additive manufacturing....
Retired Educators Visit
30 Retired Educators from 3 counties joined us at the Berks Launchbox on 10/16/19. They toured all the great things happening at the Goggleworks, had their monthly meeting and learned about Berks Launchbox and the Invent Penn State Initiative. The retired teachers...
Tech Hub Meeting
A group of 20 entrepreneurs and others from the tech industry got together at the Berks LaunchBox on 10/8/19 to start a new Berks County Tech Hub for exploring ideas, finding resources, discovering talent, making helpful connections and supporting each other with...
Trending, Trademarks & Traction Meetup
The Startup Information you didn't know you needed! We all learned so much at this meetup about the hidden free resources at local libraries to help you get your business off the ground and push it into the future. Our first speaker, Sarah Hartman-Caverly from the...