Technology

Adams Hub is proud to congratulate BaseVenture on its quick progress and traction in the financial technology (FinTech) industry – as evidenced by BaseVenture’s selection to be a presenter at Finovate Spring 2016.

BaseVenture, an innovative new software as a service (SaaS) platform that is transforming private fund management and administration, counts Adams Hub as one of its early investors, and has an office within the Adams Hub Business Incubator in Carson City.

Coming summer 2016, gaining access to complete breast imaging services in Carson City will be easier and more convenient than ever before. Michelle Joy, Chief Operating Officer of Carson Tahoe Health, announced Tuesday the plans for a comprehensive Breast Center at Sierra Surgery, located on the Carson Tahoe Medical Campus.

Helping businesses and other organizations make the best use of social media will be the focus of the Carson City Visitors Bureau’s third annual Social Media in Tourism Symposium on Friday and Saturday at the Brewery Arts Center.

Vote for your favorite “Welcome to Nevada” highway signs online here through Friday, April 22. Voters will choose four winning designs, each of which will be the basis of new welcome signs set to be installed on Nevada’s roadways beginning in summer 2016.

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s 4-H presents Capital City Farm Days this Thursday and Friday at Fuji Park in Carson City,

Thirty presenters, including representatives from the Nevada Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Land Management, the Nevada State Museum, and other local and state agriculture and natural resources organizations, will teach preschool and elementary-age youth about Nevada agriculture, where food and fiber come from, and environmental issues related to agriculture.

Military veterans who have difficulty traveling outside of Carson City for Veterans Administration (VA) services have the benefit of some of those resources coming to them.

Perfecto Manuta, a Readjustment Counseling Technician with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, coordinates the Mobile Vet Center, an outreach on wheels for the Reno Vet Center.

Dozens gathered throughout the day Friday to see creativity and innovation in action at the TEDx debut in Carson City, held inside the Brewery Arts Center's Black Box Theater.

Sixteen speakers were selected for the 2016 program, ranging in age from 16 to 70 years old. Of those, eleven speakers are local in Carson City, the Carson Valley, Lake Tahoe and Susanville. Five others have local ties to Nevada.

Carson City’s most impassioned TEDx enthusiasts will come together on Friday for a day of information, inspiration, networking and dialogue around the theme Creating the community you want to live in.

The event will take place at Brewery Arts Center’s Black Box Theater and will feature an incredible line-up of speakers on topics ranging from innovations and ideas to health to technology and the arts. Attendees will also have an opportunity to network at an on-site lunch event.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Miles Construction’s work as contractor for the historic Farmer’s Bank Building in downtown Minden was recognized as Bently Enterprises received two awards celebrating the work done converting the building to the company’s headquarters office.

Bently Enterprises was awarded the USGBC Nevada Chapter 2015 LEED Project of the Year award and the AIA Nevada 2015 Merit Award in the Built Category, with J.P. Copoulos as the Architect of Record and NicholsBooth as the Design Architect for the project.

Congratulations to Scott Vickrey, the 2016 CHS Teacher of the Year, and Tami Burgoon, the CHS Classified Employee of the Year for 2016. Becoming Teacher of the Year is no easy task at Carson High School. With 104 teachers, not including other staff members, the CHS Teacher of the Year Award is an accomplishment most teachers will never receive, so winning an award like this required a great many people to say a great thing or two about Scott Vickrey.

Visitors and residents alike can now virtually hike the trails in and around Carson City without ever going outside.
In a partnership the Google Trekker, the Carson City Visitors Bureau mapped 10 area trails using high-definition technology.

Carson High School students are not only given myriad opportunities in which to participate, they are afforded these privileges by parents, teachers, and local and national non-profit organizations whose sole purpose is to give elementary, middle, and high school students the freedom to shine like the sun.

Students can learn coding and 3-D modeling at a camp offered at the Carson City Library over spring break next week. Sixth- through eighth-graders can attend the Tuesday camp while a camp for fourth- and fifth-graders will be held Thursday. Both camps will run 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Digitorium. Breakfast and lunch will be provided both days.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, in its capacity as the Tahoe Metropolitan Planning Organization, on Wednesday adopted an active transportation plan that will help communities continue to improve transportation options for bicyclists and pedestrians in the basin.

TravelNevada joins the elite club of destination marketing organizations to borrow the Google Street View Trekker to collect images of less-traveled areas in Nevada for use on Google Maps. The areas will also be mapped on the TravelNevada website and available for use by any participating tourism entity, such as the many Nevada state parks that aided in filming.

Speaking from a platform of practical experience, Milton Chen, Ph.D., knows what it takes to be cutting edge.

As executive director and senior fellow emeritus with the George Lucas Educational Foundation, producer of the award-winning Edutopia.org web site, Dr. Chen has been at the forefront of innovative K-12 learning for four decades.

The Nevada Supreme Court has awarded $106,500 in grants to fund security and technology needs in the state’s lower courts.The grants include $26,600 worth of security improvements, the majority of whi ...

Congratulations Mrs Bonnie Benson, 2nd Grade Teacher at Fritsch Elementary School! Mrs Benson has been named the Rotary Club of Carson City's Teacher of Month.

Mrs Benson is pictured here with Rotary president Fernando Serrano, Superintendent of Schools Richard Stokes, and Fritsch Elementary Principal Mr Brown.

Mrs Benson is devoted to integrating technology into all facets of learning, as well as making homework fun again! Thank you Mrs Benson for your hard work!

The first-ever symposium on the uses of aerial robotics systems and autonomous vehicles for emergency first responders is being hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno April 6-8.

The Virginia Justice Court will utilize $3,700 to install a metal detector in the entrance of the courtroom, and the Carson City Municipal, Justice, and ...

Anthony Aguilar and Jack Wilson, both 13-year-old eighth-graders at Eagle Valley Middle School gave a demonstration on how to work a robotic arm at the annual Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math Night.

“You can move it up or down or also turn the rotation of the claw,” explained Anthony. He showed how to pick up different items with it.

The latest generation of state-of-the-art cancer treatment is now available to Northern Nevada patients, only at Carson Tahoe Health. Michelle Joy, Chief Operating Officer, announced today that Carson Tahoe Health is the first in the region to offer the new Microwave Ablation technology by NeuWave Medical.

These Ides of March have nothing to be wary of. Check out S.T.E.A.M. Night at Eagle Valley Middle School for hands on activities to learn from. Nevada Neighbors, Capital City Arts Initiative’s lecture series, features a talk by Paul Baker Prindle, Director and Curator of University Galleries, UNR’s art museum. Take an early spring stroll at Fuji Park during this week’s Carson City Parks and Recreation Easy Walk.

TUESDAY:

• $5 Senior Swim Day at Carson Hot Springs (7am-10pm; March special offer includes outdoor pool only)

William Dakota Gershel and Timothy Ibarra, both seniors at Carson High School, have participated in Career and Technical Education programs since attending CHS as freshman. Ibarra participated in two years of auto technician courses and two years in auto body courses. Gershel experimented in a variety of CTE courses including culinary, web design and welding.

Carson High School students will soon register for next year’s classes and will now have a new choice in the schedule as CHS’s Career and Technical Education program begins offering a new manufacturing technologies course of study in the 2016-2017 school year.

Her final resting place may lie somewhere at the bottom of the South Pacific Ocean, but the U.S.S. Nevada BB-36 will always have a memorial home here in Nevada's capital.

Two years ago, her memory was honored at the State Capitol with a plaque that commemorated the centennial of her initial launching.

Today, The Nevada was honored again on the State Capitol grounds with a second plaque commemorating the 100th anniversary of her completion and U.S. Navy commissioning.

Churchill County Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Youth and Families with Promise Program recently received a grant to send three students and one adult to the Leadership Washington Focus conference, a national conference in Washington D.C. that develops leadership skills.

“When everyone is looking for gold, it’s good to be in the pick and shovel business.” — Mark Twain

The entrepreneur-turned-humorist ought to know. Even though Samuel Clemens failed miserably at both mining and logging ventures in Nevada, he gave getting rich his best shot. Twain well understood the appetite Americans have for money — and how far those who want a slice of the supply chain pie are willing to go in order to get it.
It’s the same ambitious impulse a recent Seattle Business article identified when it said, “Marijuana entrepreneurs are lining up to cash in.”

University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sarah Cowie was recently named one of 105 Presidential Early Career Award recipients for Scientists and Engineers by United States President Barack Obama.

Wendy Calvin has been working on Mars for 12 years. She is the Science Operations Working Group Chair on a team that has been exploring the Martian landscape with the rover Opportunity.