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Kinsey Flanders, left, and Jacob Tarnoff push a button to take a photo at the Lockheed Martin photo booth while Ian Cooke, Marcos Mejia and Rachel Mamich pose as if they are floating in zero gravity during the 35th Space Symposium in 2019 at The Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs. The 36th symposium in August will be a hybrid live and online event with attendance limited to about 6,000 due to COVID-19 capacity limits.
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Kinsey Flanders, left, and Jacob Tarnoff push a button to take a photo at the Lockheed Martin photo booth while Ian Cooke, Marcos Mejia and Rachel Mamich pose as if they are floating in zero gravity during the 35th Space Symposium in 2019 at The Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs. The 36th symposium in August will be a hybrid live and online event with attendance limited to about 6,000 due to COVID-19 capacity limits.
Kelsey Brunner, The Gazette/
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A Colorado Springs-based team of gifted middle- and high-school students recently defeated dozens of competitors to win a statewide science competition.
Homeschool Science Colorado, which is comprised entirely of homeschool students, won both the high school and middle school divisions of the state’s Science Olympiad tournament. It was the first victory in either division for a Colorado Springs-based team since 2011, when Cheyenne Mountain High School took the state title.
Established in 1984, the Science Olympiad applies science-based principles and techniques to competitive events.
It is not a science fair. It’s more of an Olympics of the mind, in which critical thinking and problem solving take the place of running, jumping and throwing.
Colorado Springs-based insurance software provider Insurance Technologies has acquired Utah-based IXN Tech for its mobile application that helps life insurance agents sell policies.
The deal comes about six months after Insurance Technologies was sold to Boston-based private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners to help it develop its sales automation software for the life insurance and annuities industries more quickly and make acquisitions that add to its technology.
Terms of the IXN deal weren t disclosed, but IXN s 12 employees are expected to remain in Utah, said Insurance Technologies CEO David Fenimore. As the insurance industry continues to innovate, we must find ways to deliver increasingly specialized yet integrated solutions for advisers, agents, distribution partners and carriers, Fenimore said. The addition of IXN s industry-leading suite of products for life insurance rapidly advances our FireLight product roadmap for life insurance, providing the full ecosystem in a