April 19, 2024
NextGen
Game On
Kyle Morrand's game development studio is using augmented reality, virtual reality and other technologies to solve real world problems across a range of industries.
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Published on 1/10/2024
One Man's Trash...
Born and raised in Venezuela, Tony Selvaggio graduated from college and moved to Tampa in 2011 to work at a scrap metal business. Within a few years, he was ready to start his own venture. “I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit," Selvaggio says.
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Published on 12/7/2023
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Born in Colombia, Maria Barrera moved to South Florida with her mom when she was 10. Though it was a hard transition, she excelled in math and science and by high school she was tutoring. “I would spend six hours every day after school running around Weston, going to different houses, and working with second-graders to seniors. I loved that — it was my happy place.”
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Published on 11/17/2023
Making Connections
Robert Morcos was 3 years old when his Jordanian family immigrated to America. He grew up in Aventura, north of Miami, as the oldest of five siblings raised by a single mom, and he says he was always acutely aware that they were not wealthy like his friends' families. “I was always very entrepreneurial.
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Published on 10/10/2023
Ready for Takeoff
Air travel and cargo transport are major contributors to carbon emissions. To address the challenge, innovators are starting small. Advanced electric-powered aviation technologies, such as drones, combined with geospatial mapping and artificial intelligence, can be used to modernize the industry. The technologies also can predict and track wildfires, monitor water quality and deliver supplies to remote areas, says Tampa entrepreneur and aerospace engineer Rocio Frej Vitalle.
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Published on 8/8/2023
Miami-based Mind&Melody uses music to lift seniors' spirits
Cristina Rodriguez moved with her family from Caracas, Venezuela, to Miami at age 7 and has been playing the cello since she was 10. In her freshman year of high school, she noticed that many kids in her advanced classes also played an instrument and wondered if there was something to that. She began reading about music and the brain, and one book, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, helped chart her life course.
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Published on 9/6/2022
Shrimp cocktail
Growing up in a Chicago suburb, Chris Daniels was always entrepreneurial. At 16, he acquired a hand-me-down truck and started Mulch Maniacs, employing his football-player friends. By the time he graduated high school, he had sold that business to another Chicago area landscaping company, using the proceeds to help pay for college.
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Published on 4/12/2022
3 USF biomedical engineering students develop ventilator to serve multiple patients
All University of South Florida biomedical engineering seniors take a yearlong capstone course that begins with health care-related ...
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Published on 2/17/2022
Limbitless Solutions creates personalized bionic arms for children
Limbitless' bionic arms build on electromyography (EMG) technology, the tech that makes prosthetics mobile.
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Published on 1/18/2022
Navy veteran ShaKeia Kegler's GovLia makes selling to the government easier for small businesses
By 11th grade, ShaKeia Kegler had at least some of her life figured out — she planned to join the Navy after graduating from Gibbs High...
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Published on 11/30/2021
Three Florida high schoolers prove to be top-grade entrepreneurs
Cutting out the middle man, Match maker, Peer tutoring
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Published on 10/27/2021
Tampa entrepreneur Samyr Qureshi's tutoring business Knack is soaring
Samyr Qureshi says apps, online lessons, Zoom School, artificial intelligence and other tech only go so far in helping students learn.
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Published on 8/31/2021
The Taste of Immokalee entrepreneurship program helps students, community thrive
In 2014, as part of a youth entrepreneurship education program, a group of Immokalee High School students created hot sauces using...
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Published on 7/30/2021
At 29, he's built an order fulfillment business that employs 1,000
Jan Bednar grew up mostly in the Czech Republic, in a village of 5,000 people called Bakov nad Jizerou...
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Published on 5/26/2021
E-games draw a cadre of aspiring announcers and colorful commentators
A few hours before he goes to work, Gus Domingues preps his signature red hair, carefully shaping and poofing his 'do just so.
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Published on 4/28/2021
