Startup of the Month: Soar Optics
Company targets microplastics in water with high-tech microscopes
Microplastics can be found everywhere, from Antarctica to Mt. Everest to breast milk. A Western Regional Winner in 2022, Soar Optics develops technology to identify these microscopic particles in water.
The Soaring Cost of Homeowners Insurance
High prices and carriers leaving the state send homeowners scrambling to protect their homes
California’s insurance crisis is damaging the housing market and more. Will legislators fix it before the next big blaze?
Fly Like an Eagle
The UC Davis California Raptor Center and the Department of Defense are teaming up to create the next generation of unmanned aircraft technology
The new center will utilize motion capture and photogrammetry — which uses photography to determine the distance between objects — to image birds in flight and create 3D models of the wing shapes that will help design uncrewed aerial systems, or UAS.
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COLLINS ELECTRICAL COMPANY, INC.
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF EXCELLENCE — 100 YEARS OF POWERING PROGRESS
Collins Electrical Company, Inc. is celebrating 100 years of providing power to clients in commercial, industrial, institutional and energy-based markets.
Be Persistent and Make Your Own Path
Advice from the California Manufacturers & Technology Association’s third annual Women MakingCA conference
Women from all over California gathered in Sacramento earlier this month for the third annual Women MakingCA Conference, offering advice on starting businesses, mentorship, entrepreneurship and balancing work and life as part of Women’s History Month.
Startup of the Month: Inspirame
College and career navigation platform aims to repair education pipeline
In 2019, CEO Maria Medrano co-founded the equity-driven startup Inspirame to repair these critical gaps in college enrollment and workforce development.
Women in Leadership: Carmen Marsh
Our annual salute to women at the top of their field
Carmen Marsh can say something with confidence that many can’t: She always enjoys her jobs. Twenty-five years ago, she found her passion for technology and has stuck with the profession ever since.
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DELEGATA’S NEW PRESIDENT AMIRA MENOUFY
LEADS THE CHARGE WITH A TEAM OF CRITICAL THINKERS
There’s no doubt about it, we are living through a time when technology is continuing to evolve at a rapid pace — where innovation continues to propel us forward.
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CASBO
DRIVING THE BUSINESS SIDE OF CALIFORNIA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
As CEO of the California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO), Tatia Davenport brings her relentless quest for improvement, her innovative mindset, and her profound ability to inspire and mobilize people to transform education and drive results with her team to support the organization’s members and the students they serve.
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MOSAC
NO SKY CAN LIMIT THE WONDERS OF MOSAC
The idiom “curiosity killed the cat” is an infamous warning used to ward people off from asking too many questions or getting their hands literally or metaphorically messy. But Executive Director Andrea Durham and the staff of the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity (MOSAC), on the other hand, are constantly creating a space to cast that concept aside.