STEM-EC is a dynamic group of committed business leaders, educators, and community advocates working to better connect industry and the K-16 academic community in efforts to graduate more students with the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills needed to meet the needs of Colorado’s science and technology employers. Home to such companies as Qwest, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard and CH2M HILL, the Metro Denver area is a hub for technology …

The Great Books Society of Northern Colorado is a group founded to promote liberal education as an everyman's pursuit. We will read the foundational texts of Western Civilization which have most shaped history and culture. This group will focus on the classics of the Western cannon, so Eastern classics will not be studied. The texts studied will span literature, philosophy, political philosophy, drama, math, and science. We will use the reading list of the undergraduate program at St. John's Col …

For folks who desire to have fun playing with data and develop both strong technical ability and skills to apply data science and analytic results to critical business issues. A data scientist is somebody who can play with data, spot trends and learn truths few others know. Data scientists are inquisitive: exploring, asking questions, doing “what if” analysis, questioning existing assumptions and processes. Data Science: the analysis of data creation. The data scientist has a solid foundation in …