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Winter Demo Day: Fellows Gallery
Winter Demo Day was a success! Around 70 supporters attended, 17 Spark! teams competed, and 31 mentors and partners made Read more

Spark! Welcomes its First Engineer in Residence
Spark! and the BU Hariri Institute for Computing are excited to welcome Langdon White, a Platform Architect at Redhat Inc, as our new Read more

Big News for our Partner, Red Hat
IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B in cash and debt, taking a bigger leap into hybrid cloud Post originated Read more

Soylent Sparkian of August
This month's Soylent Sparkian of the month is Gur Asees Singh (right). Gur Asees is a graduate student in the Read more

August Spark! Fellows Feature
Spark! students are multifaceted and exceptionally driven. Fellows selected to be part of the Spark! Fellowship have the opportunity to Read more

It’s time to tell students what they need to know
By Azer Bestavros-Feature on The Washington Post-8.21.18 What’s the real value of a college education? For some people, that is calculated Read more
Mobile App for Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
This project includes creating a mobile app for the Mass Alliance on Teen Pregnancy to connect teen parents with the Read more
Mapping Amman’s Social Media Landscape
This project includes mapping Amman's social media landscape and exploring how Amman's citizens imagine their place in the country's neoliberal investment Read more
ForkOut: Restaurant Metadata Extraction from Unstructured Menu
This project includes using helping ForkOut match restaurants to users based on their tastes using restaurant metadata. Project Lead: ForkOut Read more
Natural Resource Governance Institute: Illegal Mining Detection
This project includes using machine learning to identifiy mining activities outside contractual boundaries using LANDSAT data. Project Lead: Natural Resource Governance Read more