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11/03/2024

Join us on Tuesday, 11/19 at Alexandria Technical and Community College to get some hands-on exploration of and how you can use it more efficiently to create real solutions and opportunities.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-hackathon-alexandria-college-tickets-1032776842337

10/30/2024

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A hands-on AI workshop for students, families, and community members in Alexandria.

10/22/2024

With friends like these… 😂

10/14/2024

Had a great day today at the convening - learning more about the needs of both education and industry and discussing how programs (like ours!) can help bridge the gaps. ♥️

10/14/2024

If you missed our workshop yesterday and still want a chance to get your glow on, our friends at are hosting another workshop on Sunday, October 27th (still in plenty of time for Halloween, Day of the Dead, and Diwali) - Don't miss it!

https://www.thethinkingspot.us/event-details/light-it-up-workshop
(click the link in their bio and go to events!)

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10/13/2024

Join us for an evening of exquisite poetry and prose!

10/13/2024

In just about an hour, we will be LIVE on FB with our incredible poets!
Be sure to tune in...

https://www.facebook.com/share/hYhkyt4kMgq4AyNX/

10/13/2024

Tonight, LIVE at 6pm, we will be joined by poet, Laura Hansen!

Laura is the author of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize collection, Midnight River. Her most recent books are Waiting Rooms, My Breast Cancer Journey in Poems, and The Night Journey, Stories and Poems. Laura is a two time Grand Prize Winner in the League of Minnesota Annual Poetry Contest and a three time Five Wings Arts Council Grant Recipient. She is on the Lifetime Arts Creative Aging Roster of Teaching Artists and has served on the boards of Great River Arts and The Five Wings Arts Council. Published in numerous regional journals, Laura has judged poetry contests for Central Lakes College, The Talking Stick Literary Journal and Brainerd Writers Alliance among others. A graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, Laura owned an independent bookstore for twenty years and now works at her local library

Don't miss this incredible show LIVE at 6pm tonight!
https://www.facebook.com/share/hYhkyt4kMgq4AyNX/

10/12/2024

Today we brainstormed ways to use these new LED noodles with Dan McCreary. ♥️

10/12/2024

Had our Costume workshop today! ♥️

10/12/2024

Tomorrow evening at 6pm, Charles Curry will be joining us for our !

Charles Patterson Curry is an original member of Nerve Poets, a writing group that existed for 15 years. His work has appeared in The Martin Lake Journal, Saint Paul Almanac, the Herald, Minnesota Zoo Tracks, engagemn.com, The Moccasin, Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Agates, and the Cracked Walnut anthology, Rewilding Hope. He received several prizes from League of Minnesota Poets contests and first prize in a Poetry Month Library contest sponsored by Dakota County (MN).

To hear Charles read some of his work, be sure to tune in tomorrow evening!
https://www.facebook.com/share/hYhkyt4kMgq4AyNX/

10/11/2024

Charly Mullan will be sharing his amazing work with us on Sunday night at 6pm.

Hailing originally from Minnesota, and back in his old neighborhood of St Paul, Charly has created a more encompassing profile as a traveling Midwesterner, with fingers into landscapes of the other states, and stories wandering along their roads. He prefers the expression, “Emotional Journalist,” as his work tends to document the discoveries of the heart, and dreams of adventure, using Poetry, songwriting, and snap shots of photography.

Be sure to tune in, LIVE!
https://www.facebook.com/share/hYhkyt4kMgq4AyNX/

10/10/2024

This Saturday at Technitium Jennings Community School you can learn how to create super festive LED light-infused masks, costumes, and clothing in our hands-on workshop with Dan McCreary.

Other IoT-related shenanigans will also be happening, so come down and explore with us...

Register Today!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1028979584637

10/10/2024

This Sunday at 6pm, tune in to hear Thomas R. Smith share his unique poetry with all of us!

Thomas is a writer, essayist, editor and teacher living in western Wisconsin. He has published ten books of poetry, most recently Medicine Year (Paris Morning Publications), and edited four books, including Air Mail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer (Graywolf Press). His first prose book, Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival, was published in 2022 by Red Dragonfly Press. He lives in River Falls, Wisconsin on the Kinnickinnic River.

6pm - LIVE on the MTN FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/hYhkyt4kMgq4AyNX/

10/06/2024

Can you build AI-infused robots out of a bunch of old electronics from the Ax-Man Surplus Stores?

Why yes, yes you can. 🤓

We can’t wait to see all of these official AI-bots in action! ♥️

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www.mtn.org/events

09/29/2024

Just booked! Our next AI Hackathon is going to be hosted at Alexandria College on November 19th. 🤓

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-hackathon-alexandria-college-tickets-1032776842337

09/28/2024

There are some AI robot-type things happening at the Technitium 🤖

09/27/2024

This weekend and next - Fri Sat Sun 10-2 - Team Up at Jennings Community School and win and Ax-Man Surplus Gift Cards in our AI Dystopia Halloween Haunted House bot contest.

Week 1 - Design

Everything needed is provided to layout and create your AI junk bot.

Week 2 - Integration

Engineers will help you integrate power, lights, sound and bring your bot to life with a rec*cled Android phone.

Brought to you by the MN IT Center of Excellence who will take the two winning entries on a tour of the State. 🤖

Registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technitium-stem-dystopia-tickets-1018365266927

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