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While filing papers at her office earlier this month, Leslie Mastroianni’s Apple watch vibrated. An email from Advance Colorado announced the Southern Colorado Economic Development District had won a grant to improve broadband infrastructure in southeastern Colorado.  Then her watch buzzed again. And again. Two more award s.   “I felt like I was giving birth to babies,” said Mastroianni, SCEDD’s executive director. “Then the buzzing stopped. I have a competitive streak, which is good in the grant writing business. So, yes, I was a little disappointed. A little surprised that some weren’t funded. …. But I’m very happy with the three and this gives us the first dip in the broadband pool.” SCEDD, an official economic development district, had applied for seven. The three it won will receive $12.5 million to help it and its partners improve fiber broadband infrastructure in four southeastern counties for 1,410 households. In all, 13 applicants to the Capit...

Boulder-based Techstars, one of the best-known tech accelerators of this century, is leaving Colorado for New York, a move that startled some of its local community.  “It’s like McDonald’s is closing its first restaurant,” said Scott Yates, a serial entrepreneur who has been a mentor for the Boulder program “since the days TS was in an office upstairs from the imported Tibetan gift shop.” The Business accelerator launched its first program in 2007 to help Technology founders hone their craft and Business plans, pivot, if necessary, and make a pitch on Demo Day to raise capital from investors. Since inception, more than 4,000 startups and 9,000 founders from all over the world have gone through Techstar programs in multiple states and countries. They’ve also raised $26.6 billion in funding, according to the company. Techstars Demo Days circa 2015. (Provided by Techstars) Techstars was a major contributor to building the local entrepreneurial ecosyst...

LONGMONT — The questions that baffle Mai Vu’s students, that frustrate them one second and motivate them the next, also foreshadow the future. At first glance, their work seems ordinary. Scattered across a classroom, they each pore over their laptops, eyes firmly trained on their screens like any other teens. But the queries consuming each of them hint at the kinds of challenges high schoolers will take on in coming years: How do you teach a camera to spot pedestrians and stop signs from inside a self-driving car? What does it take to speed up a pizza order in a short-staffed restaurant? Can gaming Technology help students better master a second language? Both the students and their projects are part of a new wave of learning that educators say will transform how kids grasp information. The engine driving their work: artificial intelligence. “This is a tool that is going to be a part of our future world,” said Michelle Bourgeois, chief technology officer for St. Vrain...