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Creating community connections in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids, Iowa was hit with one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history this June, when the Cedar River rose past it’s 500-year flood plain to 31.2 feet, flooded 1,300 city blocks, and put most of the downtown area under water.
When we visited the Gazette, Cedar Rapid’s daily paper a few weeks ago, [...]

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Help! What’s a great news problem to solve?

Rich Gordon’s got programmers but no project:
Between now and when the [next Medill innovation project] starts (Sept. 23), we have to decide what the focus of the project will be. In my experience with previous projects, the key is to come up with an interesting challenge or question for the students to explore.
Right now there [...]

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2008 08 27 Brian Boyer Uncategorized Comments (4)