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Wyatt Reed is a furniture maker, home builder, innovator, and Emergent Campus tenant. He's also co-owner and co-founder of The Industrial Hotel. For the last year he's been in Westcliff building a custom house, and in BV creating a 15 unit apartment complex from 20 shipping containers. When finished, the complex will have 15 units, shared office spaces, an outside fire pit, and a massive deck with beautiful views of the mountains.

To learn more about his current projects and alternative housing designs, visit his website below.

Fire Age Homes “I can’t imagine a hipper place to stay for the price.”– The Lionel   “If I could live there, I would. And believe me, I’ve asked.”– Milo F. Want to try before you buy? Book A Room Book A Class

Ashik (pictured left) is a robotics software engineer who lives in Florence and works at Barn Owl Precision Agriculture. His technical expertise is in robotics, ROS, IoT, AI, C++, and Python. ❤


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After a valiant effort to repair it, our well pump has completely died and a replacement won't be here until next week. We hope the grass doesn't brown out too much but we'll nurse it back to health asap when we can get water flowing again.

In the meantime we'll be praying for rain, just not as fervently as we did last week. ;-)

Congrats to Canon City based, 3 Rocks Engineering & Surveying!

Civil Engineer (PE) | 3 Rocks Engineering & Surveying | Cañon City Structural & Civil Engineering - Residential & commercial site development, hydraulics & hydrology, utility design, oil & gas, construction administration...

Brad got to catch up with Justin Passero at the Pax8 Beyond 24 trade show in Denver.

Justin was a US Marine, and also served our community as corrections officer in Canon City. He started his new tech career in 2020 at Pax8 in the Emergent Campus Florence office, and now works from home in Canon as the lead sales engineer for DefensX.

"Justin graduated from Regis University with a Masters in Cybersecurity & Terrorism. He is currently working as an engineer for DefensX. He is passionate about current and emerging technology as well as learning to protect private personal data from both security and privacy breaches."

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Mandy Reed was a pioneer tenant at Emergent Campus, and co-founder of Providence Insurance-The Reed Agency with her husband Josh. They are long time supporters of Emergent Campus and longer-time supporters of the FEDC Techstart initiative.

READ MORE about her new tech company, We Build Zaps.

"Mandy Reed is the CEO of We Build Zaps, a tech automation company revolutionizing insurance agencies nationwide!⁠ For her, success is about more than just hitting goals. It's about having the freedom to prioritize her family, enjoy a fulfilling career, and leave a positive imprint on the world."

After visiting Fremont County during last year’s SoCo Startup Day, Mallory decided to move back to her hometown and is “overjoyed” to be here and see the growth in the business community. Welcome home, Mallory!

“I like to say that I am a storyteller in the form of a content marketer. Crafting a compelling story using web copy, social media, testimonials, earned media and other tools can create an emotional connection with your target audience while educating them on what you offer and why they need it. And when it comes to competing products and services, the company with the best story always wins.

After earning my Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications, I have amassed more than two decades of experience branding, promoting and providing crisis communications for clients in the healthcare, legal, bioscience, technology, tourism and news sectors. I currently serve as the Director of PR and Marketing at a Denver Agency and owner of Paper Blossoms Content Marketing. I am overjoyed to be back in Fremont County and excited to see the incredible growth taking place in my hometown.”

Congratulations to our friends and colleagues at Cameyo, now part of Google! Jason Veatch worked for Cameyo, and Brad and Sage both provided consulting and marketing support.

Go Team Fremont!

Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS Virtualized Windows apps will be baked into ChromeOS.

Congrats Carsyn Schicke on your new role with Nerdio, one of the fastest growing software companies in the Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Space! Carsyn started her new tech-focused career with the Rimo3 marketing team at Emergent Campus!



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Congrats Cassie Miles, for your new role at TILSON!



"I contribute to research and writing feasibility studies geared toward stakeholder needs and strategic broadband development. I am a certified Project Management Professional with robust problem-solving skills and experiences across several industries, such as environmental consulting, ophthalmology, and telecommunications.

I am currently pursuing my Master's degree in Project Management at Colorado State University Global, where I am a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society. I have a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Biology, with thesis studies focused on the understory changes in Aspen stands with various levels of Sudden Aspen Decline. I am passionate about early stakeholder engagement and implementing the necessary documents and plans to equip a project for successful delivery. I lead through high standards and empathy, with consistent abilities to create buy-in. I believe in holistic and agile approaches to managing projects to benefit organizational goals, project teams and value delivery."

Congratulations to Optimum Guidance Behavior Consulting! Theresa and team have now grown from 3 to 20 employees at their Florence location at Emergent Campus.

"Our team is comprised of highly trained Board Certified Behavior Analysis (BCBAs), as well as Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs). We are dedicated to working with children and their families to increase skills vital for daily living and communication, and to decrease maladaptive behaviors."

Home Optimum Guidance Behavior Consulting (OGBC) is an applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy group serving individuals, families, and..

Congratulations to 3 Rocks Engineering & Surveying for their $249,000 Advanced Industries grant for developing a headgate device that increases the efficiency of detention basins and irrigation sites.

Two Cañon City businesses awarded OEDIT grants The Global Business Development division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) recently announced that 34 Colorado companies and eight researchers have been…

I got to hang out with THIS GUY for lunch on Friday. Jordan is another local tech person on the Pax8 team.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for the Emergent Campus TRINIDAD, Campus Director position.

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LATEST NEWS FROM EMERGENT CAMPUS:
Apply for the Campus Director position, which reports through Emergent Campus in Florence, CO but is based in Trinidad.
See details at trinidadstate.edu/emergentcampus

Congrats DJ, for your new role as Program and Partner Manager at IBM! DJ has been a part of FEDC Techstart since 2017, and was one of the first business tenants at Emergent Campus.

This is the short video about Emergent Campus that was played at the award ceremony in Denver at the History Colorado Center on April 16th. Only five Stephen H. Hart Awards for Historic Preservation are awarded each year throughout the entire state. Our award was specifically for preserving the building with unique reuse around job creation. We're very proud of this award as it highlights the role of the building in the history and heritage of Florence, and recognizes the community wide effort to bring new types of jobs to Fremont County.

"The Stephen H. Hart Awards celebrates and recognizes exemplary projects in archaeology and historic preservation across the state. Each project contributes to the field of preservation because of their innovative approaches, in-depth research, and/or use of proper techniques that honor the historic significance and craftsmanship of Colorado’s archaeological and built environment."



Special Thanks to:
Second-61 LLC
Pax8
Barn Owl Precision Agriculture
Rimo3
Fremont County Heritage Commission
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Emergent Campus; Historic Florence High School, LLC // History Colorado Board Award The Stephen H. Hart Awards celebrates and recognizes exemplary projects in archaeology and historic preservation across the state. Each project contributes t...

Special thanks to David McKean, and Ann Sullivan-McKean, for providing their art for our current co-working exhibit.

https://macsull.webnode.page/about-me/

Business Resource Fair in Pueblo West on May 29, sponsored by SCEDD!

Congrats Matt M. on your new job!

Matt was working at a big box store and a thrift store, but is now a Remote Product Support Specialist at Auxilium.

Local volunteers, business leaders, and government officials have been working for many years to continually improve broadband options in the region. This specific initiative took over 6 years to come to fruition but will provide great benefit to Fremont County residents, from businesses relying on broadband, retirees and homebound people leveraging telemedicine options, parents working from home due to lack of childcare options, and students pursuing their education and preparing to enter a modern workforce - broadband is for everyone!

"These are the types of legacy projects that can change the trajectory of a community. In 2017, the FEDC TechSTART initiative and the City of Cañon City started a concerted effort to attract location neutral professionals to the community. We saw early success with this program that was accelerated by the pandemic and the work from home movement. I am very proud of our team and community partners who have persevered through this process to not just conduct another study but to move to action and make this project a reality. Thank you Brian Worthen and Visionary Broadband in creating a public private partnership that will benefit the citizens of Cañon City." - Ryan Stevens, City Administrator at City of Cañon City

Rick Harrmann Aleizja Owens Brad Rowland Andrew Eubank

‘An absolutely critical need:’ Visionary Broadband breaks ground in Cañon City Cañon City businesses and residences will soon have another option for high-speed internet providers. City leaders and officials with Visionary Broadband, a provider of high-speed internet service …

The Emergent Campus team and volunteers from the South Central Tech Sector Partnership were honored to support this event.

The Emergent Campus team was honored to receive one of only five Stephen H. Hart awards for historic preservation from the state historic society, presented at the History Colorado Center on April, 16th. Our award highlighted adaptive reuse of the campus for job creation in Fremont County. Fremont Economic Development Corp, Pax8, and Barn Owl Precision Agriculture were included in our video segment to talk about our region and how this collective effort is generating strong economic impact for the community.


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History Colorado’s State Historical Fund and State Historic Preservation Office are deeply involved in numerous archaeology and historic preservation initiatives spanning communities across the state each year. From this long and impressive list, Emergent Campus has been selected to receive the History Colorado Board of Directors’ Award and will be celebrated as one of only five projects being honored in 2024 at History Colorado’s annual Stephen H. Hart Awards celebration.

“This year's awardees are a beautiful demonstration of how preservation combined with community can provide solutions to some of today's challenges,” said Dawn DiPrince, President/CEO of History Colorado & State Historic Preservation Officer. “We are recognizing projects that create affordable housing, build an inclusive historic record, and catalyze economic opportunity in rural Colorado.”

History Colorado Board Award: Emergent Campus | Florence, CO Originally located in Downtown Canon City, the Emergent Campus invests in rural prosperity by bringing high tech jobs to rural Colorado and providing space for innovation sector workers, remote tech workers, and other entrepreneurs. Since Emergent Campus moved into the historic Florence High School in 2019, it has actively transformed the space to provide co-working and business offices to provide an attractive solution for tech companies seeking lower operating costs. This transformed space and extended program is responsible for 80+ new tech-based jobs in Fremont County, all while maintaining the historic integrity of Florence High School. Emergent Campus is being recognized for being a strong proponent of adaptive reuse and its commitment to historic preservation and effort to have the Florence High School Building listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to the work done in Florence, the Emergent Campus is working to apply their successful model of adaptively reusing historic buildings to generate tech sector jobs to Trinidad. Using a variety of funding sources – and strategic partnerships with Trinidad State College and local school district – this future extension of Emergent Campus is intended to provide education and job opportunities that are currently not available in Trinidad and will be housed at Trinidad's historic Park School.

Congrats Tavian Broadhead for getting fully certified as an ISC2 CISSP! And well done for getting certified at least 20-years earlier than the average age in the industry!

Hotel St. Cloud: Landmark Renovation Continues Cañon City Development

Beyond the Headlines Podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2228371/14763518-landmark-renovation-continues-canon-city-development

"Colorado has a special relationship with historic hotels. From Telluride’s New Sheridan to Durango’s Strater Hotel to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park - among other examples. They can serve as the focal point of a town's business district, peeling back a town's history and allowing guests and residents to transport themselves back in time. An ambitious historic hotel renovation is underway in Fremont County, where one of Colorado’s ten oldest hotels is getting more than a simple makeover. By Connor Shreve."

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Special thanks to Kristie, Sage, Sydney, and all the volunteers who helped with the CCHS PAICE Intern Fair!

Congrats Dr. Alison Brown and Team NAVSYS!

“Among the 'Early-Stage Capital and Retention Grant' recipients, is NAVSYS Corporation, based in the City of Colorado Springs, with an office in Salida. It was awarded $250,000 for developing a positioning, navigation, and timing service solution to address the loss of GPS position and timing.”

Dr. Brown lives in Fremont County, has an office in Chaffee County, and is part of the South Central Tech Sector Partnership!

Colorado OEDIT Announces Grants to 32 Colorado Startups and Researchers, Boosting Advanced Industries - by Jan Wondra - Ark Valley Voice A Colorado Tech Priority: Growing Advanced Industries in the State Includes Local Recipient On Thursday, the Global Business Development division of the

We've had a few people ask what these are, so we wanted to repost here that they're surveillance trailers from our tenant Optimum Overwatch. When they aren't deployed at customer sites they're parked in our parking area.