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steve zylstra

Jun 4, 2018

State budget allocates $1 million for K-12 coding initiative

As K-12 curricula moves into the 21st century, Arizona will kick-start a new initiative to train teachers how to code — lessons they can then pass onto their students.

Apr 22, 2015

Rapid growth in bioscience industry in peril

From 2002 to 2011, Arizona bioscience sector played a major role in boosting the state’s economic development. Jobs increased by 45 percent, adding more than 30,700 to the market and sweeping the new industry into Arizona like a wave.

Sep 9, 2014

iWork force: High-tech business leaders cite properly trained work force as critical component

Before starting his senior year in high school, Zane Zylstra realized the curriculum did not offer a second-year physics class. So he and his classmates asked school officials to create one — and they did.

Protestors rally in front of the Arizona capitol one day after the passage of SB1062, which would allow businesses to deny service based on religious beliefs. (Photo by Evan Wyloge/Arizona Capitol Times)
Feb 21, 2014

Business leaders: SB1062 could damage Arizona for years to come

Arizona business leaders voiced their strong opposition to the ‘’religious freedom’’ bill passed this week by the Legislature as Gov. Jan Brewer began considering whether to sign or veto the measure.

Ronald Young, an employee at Boeing’s plant in Mesa, fashions a pylon used to hold weapons on the AH64D attack helicopter (Cronkite News Service photo by Sarah Pringle)
Feb 18, 2013

Business leaders leave Washington with dim hopes of avoiding sequester, job cuts

A delegation from the Arizona Technology Council came to Washington this week hoping to persuade Congress to stop automatic spending cuts that would hurt state defense contractors and could lead to layoffs.

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