A geek with a mission
NPR’s Dustin Dwyer spotlights a nonprofit in the Midwest with interesting beginnings. The article “Geek’s Dream Lab Could Create Jobs In Michigan” introduces us to Chris Boden, who couldn’t afford to enroll in college but followed his passion for learning anyway. He created The Geek Group, “a consortium of people devoted to good old-fashioned scientific and technical experimentation.”
The Geek Group, boasting a world-wide membership, is headquartered in an old machine shop north of Kalamazoo, MI. What started out as a place for making and running experiments has evolved into a nonprofit that serves as a research-and-development facility for firms that cannot afford to run their own labs.
Boden wants to expand The Geek Group by building a 40-acre campus used for “open source” research and development. What Boden needs is investors. And, according to Dwyer, Michigan is “a place that could use some real geeks.”
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