Many U.S. cities are wrestling with how to build a healthy “pipeline” of tech talent. But too often those solutions are limited to the addition of new STEM degrees at traditional higher education institutions or coding classes in local K-12 schools.
In Pittsburgh, local seed stage investor Innovation Works is interested in another issue: how to get teens involved with the local hardware sector. So in conjunction with its hardware accelerator, AlphaLab Gear, Innovation Works launched Startable Pittsburgh a few years back.
Image: Above: Startble instructor Justin Harvilla (left) and student Norma Cusin (right). Image Credit: Courtesy Innovation Works
