Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10  technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning (Unless it’s a holiday. I hope you had a great Memorial Day)!

This past week has been amazing!! Thursday night my Go Code Colorado team, MentorMatter, was one of 3 teams that won a $25,000 contract with the State of Colorado. I worked as a developer on the team to create our site using the Meteor JavaScript framework. I had no prior knowledge of Meteor before the challenge so it was amazing to be able to re-familiarize myself with JavaScript, learn Meteor and contribute to the project all in less than a month. Phew!

This weekend my wife and I got to experience our first ever Comic Con at Denver Comic Con thanks to 2 passes I won from the CTA C-Level event (Thanks for that, by the way)! It was overwhelming, amazing, fun, crazy and amazing (yes, I know I said amazing twice). I loved that Denver Comic Con featured local game development companies and maker spaces with their own section. I would list them all, but I’m afraid I would leave some out. It was so inspiring talking to Colorado authors, artists and developers who get to make a living being creative everyday.

I could go on and on about the Go Code Colorado Challenge and Denver Comic Con and I probably will in separate blog posts, but you didn’t open this post to read about that so without further ado…

Top Colorado Technology News

• Boulder’s Sphero launches new Darkside robot toy [InnovatioNews]
• Hosting a summer intern? Join Colorado Technology Foundation’s cohort! [CTA]
• 6 awesome tech companies in Colorado you want to work for right now [BuiltinColorado]
• Denver Comic Con exhibitor, Boulder-based Serenity Forge overcomes odds to mingle gaming with education (Slideshow) [DBJ]
• 5 job openings at Colorado tech startups that’ll exercise your creative muscles [BuiltinColorado]
• Denver man hacked airliners but he can’t say what he’s learned (yet) [DBJ]
• 5 places anybody can learn to code in Colorado [BuiltinColorado]
• Go Code Colorado awards three teams $25,000 contracts with Secretary of State [InnovatioNews]
• Scott McNealy, founder of Sun Microsystems, takes the helm at Denver tech startup Wayin [DBJ]
• Denver’s Welltok acquires Predilytics to enhance health analytics [InnovatioNews]

Upcoming Events

• 5/28 – CommercialTribe – QA Night
• 5/28 – Fort Collins Startup Week – Talent Collision/Job Fair
• 5/28 – IPSO Alliance – CHALLENGE 2015 Brainstorming Hackathon
• 5/28 – WomenWhoCode – Java Study Group
• 5/30 – Turing Community Events – Turing Community Night: Lightning Talk Edition
• 5/31 – Zayo Group – Colorado’s First Tech Start-Up Triathlon!
• 6/1 – Galvanize – Full Stack Immersive Info Session
• 6/2 – BDNT – New Tech Boulder
• 6/2 – DOSUG – JSON at Work: Schema
• 6/2 – Xero – Developer Day

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