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A . . “The Garage is reall 'provltlin .i of companies started at the UW tDanny Yaroslavski, founder Of by,“ 5 one Of the nine m M has mined W5 Veloctty Garage an space for really interesiing and fir ‘ . 0 take his new busmess to the next level. new mom . . ; studentâ€"based tech incubator. cinating people to come together One of those companies was taiti states in the Us, have made it bot.com. “Instead of just looking company in eight months ora year. and help each other." said Kirkup llightBot, founded by fourthryear an elective iii their math programs and syntax and typing commands “All the lessons they know lite focus has been on software ' computer science student Danny required for graduation. correctly it's really about problem already i can pick up from them at the Velocity program iii recent Yartislavski It makes mobile game “We were lucky to be pan ofthis solving, and you can relate that to a and really interact with them while years. but that will change With it apps for Apple and Android devices huge promotion called ”our of puzzle envtronment and build bringing my own unique experi- new Velocity l-oundry workspat t" that teach kids from Kindergarten (hide which happened just last year problem solving elements into its ences to the table. 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