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Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Patrick J. McGovern Foundation awards $4.1 million to expand tech education and build an inclusive tech workforce February 18, 2021 GMT (PRNewsfoto/Patrick J. McGovern Foundation) BOSTON, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The full promise of a digitally enabled society can be achieved through educational opportunity for all students and potential tech workers. To advance this vision, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation is announcing $4.1 million in new grants that strengthen the pipeline of technology educa...

But no amount of problem-solving could have prepared the museum for what came in 2020. "It's the first time we've ever been closed like this," Tech Interactive President and CEO Katrina Stevens said. "We had no notice, the same as everyone else, that we had to shut our doors and everyone had to go home. We thought maybe, it would be a couple weeks?" Overnight these once busy exhibits closed and they've been this way since March. Tech President and CEO Katrina Stevens knew they had to find a way to continue. "At the heart of the Tech's mission is to make innovators and problem solving skills,"...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The global COVID-19 outbreak caused most Bay Area music and arts organizations to cancel in-person experiences in 2020, including San Francisco's iconic Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. While the pandemic may have put a Golden Gate park tradition on hold, it has not stopped the team behind the event from working to support the local music and arts community in a financially-trying year. Frances Hellman, of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and the Hellman Foundation, joined ABC7 on Friday to talk about community relief grants and initiatives that the festival has created to ...