Every Friday, ‘Good News of the Week’ features a curation of positive headlines from San Diego, delivered straight to your inbox. A blend of aggregated stories from San Diego’s most trusted news sources and original EDC-created content, GNOTW provides a comprehensive recap of the region’s best stories from the past week.
For the week of May 29, 2020, here’s what we’re reading:
- Carlsbad’s ChromaCode raises $38M to pursue low-cost COVID-19 testing platform
- Scripps researcher wins $1M shared prize for discovering how we sense touch
- Biotix donates 30,000 face shields to regional first responders
- San Diego nonprofit Clear Blue Seas develops autonomous floating robot to clean ocean plastics
- San Diego Sport Innovators releases video encouraging San Diegans to safely enjoy the outdoors
- San Diego co. 5th Axis creates product to open doors with feet
- San Diego farms and businesses partner to save produce from waste
…and here are the events we’re (virtually) attending:
- June 8-12 – BIO International Convention
BIO Digital - June 23 – Intuit Tech Stories & Tech Women @ Intuit
Open Source: The Future is Female
Last call: Advancing San Diego
Engineering education and training programs: apply by June 1 for the designation of Preferred Provider by Advancing San Diego.
Preferred Provider institutions will gain access to:
- Paid internships for students at small companies and referrals to opportunities at larger companies
- Work-based learning opportunities for students including networking events, and career and internship fairs
- Annual briefings on talent demand alongside local employers
COVID-19 & San Diego:
Amidst everything happening in the world, we need a reminder that there’s plenty of ‘Good News’ to go around in SD. We have also compiled additional resources for businesses and individuals seeking additional guidance
For businesses:
- Find information at EDC’s COVID-19 page
- Find North County information at Innovate78’s COVID-19 page
- Get detailed guides to reopening your small business here
- Apply for disaster loan assistance
- Access San Diego Workforce Partnership’s updates for businesses
- Pivot operations to produce PPEs, sanitizer, & more
- Find additional guidance from the CDC
For individuals:
- See which San Diego companies are still hiring
- Access San Diego Workforce Partnership’s updates for individuals
- Donate to the COVID-19 Community Response Fund
- Support South Bay Community Services’ food distribution efforts
- Find additional guidance from the CDC
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Heather Dewis
Sr. Manager, Marketing Communications