As someone who helps run another volunteer tech nonprofit that relies on slack, is there a reason they kicked you off the free nonprofit plan? Asking to have a good backup plan for our community.
A college hackathon organizer here (and former high school hackathon organizer). This is so useful. Dealing with high school/university administration takes up an incredible amount of time. When it came to reimbursements, my university took months to pay back student organizers who paid out of their own pocket to buy last minute items.
This is so great. As someone who used to run a Hack Club, it's so exciting to see this (would have solved a lot of problems for me back in high school).
Out of curiosity, are there ever plans to expand this beyond high school?
Senior at the International Academy here (a public high school in Michigan). One of my classes uses Google Classroom.
I think that Google truly took a "Google Plus" look and morphed that into a website for teachers. I love how it has a clean and easy to use UI. The assignments are on a side bar, announcements are clearly displayed in a "stream". You can easily post a message to your class, and you have access to everyone's email (making it easy to communicate).
Teachers in my school have used three platforms. Moodle, Google Classroom, and Edmodo. Quite frankly, I have come to like Edmodo much more. They're identical to Facebook, but the layout is so much better than the alternatives (in my preference). Edmodo has truly thought everything out.
The Madison Block[1] has a lot to do with the growth startup-wise in Downtown Detroit. Also, there are more and more meetups going on. For example, Detroit Soup[2] is a growing event and calls people to join, pay $5 for soup, and vote on a project that will benefit the city (people present their projects). Even MHacks, the premier college hackathon run by students from the University of Michigan, was held in the Quicken Loans headquarters this spring. I have also been to a few meetups such as one from the Detroit NodeJS group, and the Detroit Drones group- the meetup groups are active and growing.
The city has had its ups and downs, but things are on the rise. Take it from someone who has lived near the city for 17 years. I think there are a lot of assumptions about Detroit, but there are a few things that are true: We have a 14.5% unemployment rate, a post industrial culture (culture of employees expecting to work for the Big Three immediately, instead of a culture of entrepreneurs), a financial problem, and poor Detroit schools (however the schools in suburbs are much better).
I think that the combination of a lot of opportunity, and recent support from people like Dan Gilbert gave Detroit a huge start with the Madison Block, and that is the reason that people look at Detroit and what is happening in the city now.
Hmm, definitely didn't mean to submit it if it was already done in the past. I thought that if it was submitted previously then hacker news would automatically detect that.
My news sources consist of a variety of websites and apps. Primarily, I regularly look at Hacker News and find its content to be very interesting. Other than that, I use Flipboard, as I find the UI very appealing.
I also learn a lot from going on Facebook- as any news normally makes its way on the site.
This was awesome to read. It's incredible to see such a growth in the hacker community- and a facebook community like this has definitely inspired a lot more creativity among young minds.