Category Archives: Education

Velocity SI, the Jefferson-based business accelorator right across the Second Street Bridge, has announced its class of five startups for its inaugural program. Two local businesses and three potentially-mobile West Coast businesses were selected. Tony Schy founded Velocity in January 2013 as a 501c3 non-profit company. Schy was among the panelists on last week’s #OpenCoffeeLou [...]

St. Francis School in Goshen, about 20 miles east of downtown Louisville, is offering a huge variety of summer camps, many of which take advantage of the private school’s bucolic Oldham County setting. Here’s the full schedule by starting dates. Camp Wyvern Goshen Campus JK through 8th grade MONDAY, JUNE 10 • Outdoor Adventure Camp [...]

(Note: this post was updated May 20 to reflect lower acceptance rates and higher tuition as per the Kentucky Center for the Arts.) For the past twenty-five years, The Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) has provided rigorous summer instruction in the arts to more than 200 Kentucky students a year. GSA was established in 1987 as a [...]

Aaron Marshall calls himself “a Louisville success story.” Though once you read this post, you may see Marshall as the new paradigm for how we define Louisville’s role in the brave new digital world: a place that’s a way station for talent looking for a place to start … but not necessarily to stay. After eight years here, [...]

(Full disclosure: I am a Bible believing non-denominational Christian. I spent the first 18 years of my life growing up Catholic, yet never truly accepting many of its core tenets. I followed that with 12 years what could fairly be described as heathenism before, at age 30, accepting Christ as my Lord and Savior. I am [...]

Insider Louisville and the rest of the Louisville media have reported mostly bad news this year about the Jefferson County Public Schools system including blatant threats by state officials to take control. Kentucky as a whole is not exactly a shining example of the best in education. Yet, there are public schools in this state [...]

Last week, our top-read story was about the controversial evangelical group that conducted a seminar at Gheens Academy, part of Jefferson County Public Schools. Louisville Area Christian Educator Support, or LACES, leased meeting space at Gheens. LACES is affiliated with Southeast Christian Church, and the seminar addressed how evangelicals can act as missionaries in the classroom. Which [...]

Jealous of those summer camp programs your kids will be attending in a few weeks? Why should the little guys have all the fun? Our friends at IdeaFestival University continue to add summer programming to the schedule. We’ve already let you know about some of these upcoming classes, but two more have been added in [...]

“Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It’s your task to figure out what that future history will be.” – Peter Thiel The Thiel Foundation just announced the 2013 class of entrepreneurs: 20 fellows,  ages 17 to 20 from all over [...]