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Rising from the Ashes
Stories of Sorrow, Redemption and Rebirth: Innovation Summer 2020 In 2020, The Glass Files participated in the first 100% remote MetaBronx Innovation Summer, which welcomed 100 student apprentices from 3 Bronx high schools. MetaBronx gathered 10 mentors including entrepreneurs from current and former startup cohorts as well as college students from partner Olin College of […]
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Apprentices: International Edition
The living history of American immigration in The Bronx Since the days of Jonas Bronck, the first Swedish settler to make his home on native Lenape land in 1639, the…
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Apprentices: Next Generation
In The Bronx, startups partner with high schools to create a new apprenticeship model for education This summer, 40 students from Bronx Academy for Software Engineering (BASE) were accepted to…
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Rising Apprentices
Summer of Success: meet the Summer 2017 cohort at The Glass Files! This Summer marked the 2nd in a row that our Bronx-based tech startup The Glass Files partnered with tech…
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Lieutenant Colonel Lee Andrew Archer
Back in the early 1940s when the U.S. Army did not accept black pilots, my grandfather, Lee Andrew Archer, was accepted into an experimental training program for black aviators at…