The Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory (MAGIC) is pleased to announce the success of their sixth annual Hackathon – a tech-based pitch competition that took place this past Saturday, February 25 at Carroll Community College. Dozens of high school and undergraduate students participated and teamed up to present the best app idea to a panel of…
Nurselynx has been awarded a $10,000 Maryland Business Innovation Association (MBIA) Commercialization Impact grant to develop a prototype app to demonstrate the viability of their dedicated healthcare services. Funding will also accelerate the development of a formal app dedicated to servicing families and care facilities throughout the State of Maryland. The purpose of the MBIA…
MAGIC 2022 Year in Review 2022 was a big year with MAGIC! We moved into our new Main Street location, launched the Westminster Autonomous Robotics Innovation Center (ARIC), dove into Duckietown and continued development on the Autonomous Corridor Project, bolstered economic activity in the City of Westminster with 1 Million Cups Westminster, continued our journey…
Good Game on the Hill McDaniel’s Green Terror ESports and MAGIC got together on November 19 and 20 for our first collaborative Good Game on the Hill! Dozens of college students from across the state came together to compete in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Cash prizes were sponsored by Green…
MAGIC’s 13th Capture the Flag (CTF) event took place on Saturday, October 22 at Carroll Community College. This was MAGIC’s first in-person CTF since 2020. Saturday’s event, which was limited to students within the United States, was one of the most challenging yet. Outreach efforts for the competition were focused on engaging our rural communities,…
MAGIC’s second annual Good Game Fest was held on Friday, November 4 thru Sunday, November 6 at the Best Western Westminster. We drew gamers from across the country to participate in a weekend of retro arcade gaming, console and tabletop tournaments, and more! Here’s a quick recap of what went down… Retro Game Arcade Good…
The Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory (MAGIC) is pleased to announce that they are recipients of a Truist Foundation Building Career Pathways to Economic Mobility grant of $8,360. This funding will be used to relaunch MAGIC’s data science programming, making it available to Westminster residents free of charge. The purpose of the Building Career Pathways to…
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, and while it’s important we help those who struggle year round, this is the month when our nation puts an extra emphasis on helping those with mental health needs. At MAGIC, we know how important the early stages of life are for the development of a healthy state…
MAGIC’s 12th Capture The Flag (CTF) event took place this past Saturday, April 30. The beginner-level, international cybersecurity competition has historically drawn high school and college students from mostly the U.S. and Estonia, along with other countries, but this recent event became a distinct rivalry between students in those two nations. “The top 5 teams…
MAGIC Announces Fiscal Sponsorship of Innovators of Progress MAGIC is pleased to announce its fiscal sponsorship of Innovators of Progress, a Maryland-based entrepreneurship program for full-time vocational, undergraduate, and graduate students. The fiscal sponsorship agreement between the two organizations allows Innovators of Progress to raise funds for their pre-accelerator program under MAGIC’s 501(c)3 status.…