College
A picture is worth a 100 blog posts.
We spent Monday night this week snapping videos and taking pictures of the activities at West High. This is one instance where a blog post cannot do justice to the pictures. Take a minute and mosey over to our Facebook page to take a look at over 100 pictures. Go there now. Here are…
Read MoreWhen There’s Always A Movie For Class
At Minds Matter, we’re always thinking about things: students, mentors, teachers. While we spend a great deal of time talking about our students and their mentors we’d like to take a minute to think about teachers. And what better time to do so than over Thanksgiving, when you might be spending time with some family…
Read MoreMinds Matter & Social Mobility? YES. Cold Brew & Baristas? NOT.
So there is a new commercial out for Verizon that makes really dumb analogies about how certain things go together. We’ve seen much better commercials and spokespeople but they do make a point. Minds Matter Denver has a simple mission–to prove that Genius has no zip code and that people from even the humblest origins…
Read MoreDaniel Hernandez Attends “MIT of the West” This Summer
Colorado School of Mines revamps 45-year-old summer program for a dual-learning experience Our very own “Genius” Daniel Hernandez was just featured in the Denver Post (click through the slides in the article to page 3). The requirements for this summer program read like something out of a training manual to become Steven Hawking’s assistant. In this…
Read MoreIf Minds Matter Were a Hedge Fund …
We would generate a heck of a return from some very special capital. Return on capital is one of the primary metrics investment pros use to measure results on the money (i.e. capital) they invest. The best run hedge funds look for a 20% return on capital per year (which is crazy high). They are also…
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