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ConnecTech & MLG Offer Blockchain Workshops

ConnecTech & MLG Offer Blockchain Workshops

ConnecTech announced a “strategic partnership with MLG Blockchain to improve blockchain education in Bermuda.” “Under this partnership, MLG Blockchain will provide educational Blockchain workshops. The educational series will begin with an introductory information session on blockchains and cryptocurrencies for the public, followed... Read more of this article

Photos: Nahki Wells & ConnecTech Golf Event

Photos: Nahki Wells & ConnecTech Golf Event

The Nahki Wells & ConnecTech Annual Golf Tournament and Kids Putting Event was held recently, with budding golfers getting a chance to interact with the professional premier league footballer while also helping to providing additional bursaries and tech opportunities to the island’s youth through the various coding programs. A spokesperson... Read more of this article

ConnecTech Tackles The Gender Gap In Tech

ConnecTech Tackles The Gender Gap In Tech

ConnecTech’s first Django Girls coding camp concluded on Friday [April 6] with a showcase at the tech incubator’s purpose-built space on Cedar Avenue in Hamilton. A dozen girls from Bermuda’s public school system attended the one-week camp funded by Hamilton Insurance Group, a Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer leveraging data science and analytics... Read more of this article

59 Primary Students Earn Coding Certificates

59 Primary Students Earn Coding Certificates

ConnecTech, Hamilton Insurance Group and the Ministry of Education have celebrated dozens of primary school students who completed a ten-week pilot programme in basic coding. Students at nine public primary schools attended lunchtime sessions from January this year until mid-March, completing a curriculum created by the tech incubator that included... Read more of this article

B//Moto Settles Into New Home At Connectech

B//Moto Settles Into New Home At Connectech

B//Moto motorcycling academy has settled into their new home at Connectech. B//Moto teaches participants the best practices for road safety and supports the concept of graduated licensing for motorcycle riders. Their goal is to empower people to ride competently and confidently. They offer a wide range of riding packages for a range of skill levels... Read more of this article

Advanced Services Finds Home At Connectech

Advanced Services Finds Home At Connectech

Connectech has welcomed Advanced Services to the Connectech community. Operated by husband and wife team George and Ritu Botelho, Advanced Services has been providing web development and hosting, graphic design and online marketing services since 2008. Until last fall, the couple based their business out of a home office, But the arrival of a second... Read more of this article

LinkBermuda Support Youth Computer Classes

LinkBermuda Support Youth Computer Classes

Connectech announced that 20 students have received bursaries from LinkBermuda providing them with the opportunity to participate in Connectech’s Scratch and Python Coding Classes. “Connectech wishes to thank LinkBermuda for their continued support of the youth technology program, which also included the provision of five Raspberry Pi mini-computers,”... Read more of this article

Shawnette Somner’s ‘New Home’ At Connectech

Shawnette Somner’s ‘New Home’ At Connectech

Connectech has welcomed Shawnette Somner to the Connectech community. A well-known community activist, Ms Somner provides personal and professional development programs for children and adults. Ms Somner has tutored hundreds of Bermudians in their homes as well as her own home and in several multi-purpose facilities around the island. So she decided... Read more of this article

Connectech Hosts Open House & Hour Of Code

Connectech Hosts Open House & Hour Of Code

Connectech announces its participation in this year’s Computer Science Education week with a community open house on Wednesday. All interested parents and students are invited to attend the event which takes place on Wednesday December 7 from 4 pm to 7 pm. A highlight of the open house is the Hour of Code whereby participants engage in one hour of... Read more of this article

Red Bicycle Studio Finds Home At Connectech

Red Bicycle Studio Finds Home At Connectech

Connectech is welcoming creative design studio Red Bicycle to its facilities. Red Bicycle, Bermuda’s newest design studio, has moved into Connectech’s co-working space, as it looks to expand its clientele locally and internationally. Headed by husband and wife team Emma and Antwan Edwards, the startup was founded in 2015 shortly after the couple... Read more of this article

Connectech Offering WordPress 101 Course

Connectech Offering WordPress 101 Course

Connectech is offering “personalized tech-focused courses guided by experts who love what they do,” designed for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and those interested in learning new technology and “looking to thrive in the fast paced technology space.” A spokesperson said, “One of this month’s course offerings is WordPress... Read more of this article

Connectech Holds Grand Opening Celebration

Connectech Holds Grand Opening Celebration

Connectech — a technology training centre and co-working space on Cedar Avenue in Hamilton — held their Grand Opening Celebration yesterday, showcasing the diverse range of offerings the company provides for entrepreneurs, startups, independent professionals and small business teams. The Open House allowed clients to use a hot desk or office... Read more of this article

Connectech Centre Hosting Open House Today

Connectech Centre Hosting Open House Today

The Connectech is a technology training centre and co-working space on Cedar Avenue in Hamilton is hosting an open house today from 11:00am and 4:00pm, inviting people to use a ‘hot desk’ or office for an hour, visit the robotics and scratch centers or join them for a free lunch and learn on social media. A spokesperson said, “Connectech... Read more of this article

Connectech Aims To Help Drive Technology

Connectech Aims To Help Drive Technology

Connectech is aiming to build a technology training centre for youth and entrepreneurs to become innovators saying they ”believe that a thriving innovative entrepreneurial community is being formed in Bermuda, and that the local economy benefits from the formation of innovative small business when they are supported” and the “inventors... Read more of this article

Godwin, Waldron, Wells Win Rocket Pitch Contest

Godwin, Waldron, Wells Win Rocket Pitch Contest

The winners of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation’s 8th Annual Rocket Pitch Competition were announced, with Jamila Godwin, Maquel Waldron, and Coral Wells winning their respective categories in the competition. The Competition, supported by the Bermuda Tourism Authority, the Department of E-Commerce, and the BEDC, was run as part of... Read more of this article