Your Weekly KYCombinator Digest - Community Events

Hello Fellow Pioneers!

Build & Chill is ON! (Changed from Hack-tern-ship)

🔥 Keep the HackKentucky Vibes Going! 🔥

🚀 Story Saturday - Mar 22nd, 2025 | Build & Chill 🎉
Register here

📍 Schedule:
🍗 9 AM - Breakfast (Chick-Fil-A)
🤝 9:30 AM - Networking (Main Room)
💻 10 AM - How to Git (Classroom)
🚀 11 AM - Deploy on Vercel (Classroom)
📈 12 PM - TBD: Marketing / Business (Classroom)
🥙 1 PM - Lunch (Safier Mediterranean Deli)
🎯 1:30 PM - Connect 4 Tournament (Single-Elimination)
🎤 3 PM - Show & Tell
🏆 4 PM - Bounty Submission
🔥 5 PM - Grilling

Good vibes all around! ✨💡🍔

❤️🍻 HeartlandVC Happy Hour - Mar 10th 🍻❤️

🚀 Attention all founders! HeartlandVC is hosting a happy hour on Mar 10th at 4 PM.

📖 Please read their thesis first.
✅ Register here (approval required).
📍 (Location displayed after approval).

Don't miss out! 🎉

COMMUNITY CORNER

⛲️ Friday is for the founders!

Join us every 1st Friday from 8 AM - 5 PM for a day of free coworking, networking, and fun. 🎉✨ RSVP now!

🎓️ Story's Student Coworking Membership

📢 CALLING ALL STUDENTS: We've created something just for you! Our Student-Only Coworking Membership is a specially designed launchpad 🚀 for those balancing classes, projects, and big dreams. Just $49/month!

✨ What you're getting:
✅ 5 full days of coworking access each month to create, focus, and connect 💡 
✅ 20% off extra day passes & conference rooms when inspiration strikes 🎯 
✅ Direct access to Story’s events where connections turn into opportunities 🤝 
✅ Free-flowing ☕️ Quills coffee & 🫖 Elixir Kombucha to fuel your grind
✅ Free parking 🅿️ & B&W printing 🖨️ because every dollar counts 💰️ 

📚️ This isn't just another campus study lounge. It’s where your classroom theory meets real-world grit. Where your ideas find their people.
🎟️ Valid student ID required – because we've created this space specifically for YOU! 💙 Click here to join!

✍️ Join Kieran’s Non-Fiction Writing Peer Group!

📚 Build your brand. Improve your craft.
🗓️ Bi-monthly meetings to share and discuss drafts—whether it’s a company blog post or a book chapter on product development.
💬 Everyone shares, everyone gets feedback.

📩 Interested? Message Kieran at [email protected]!

Show Her the Money – Documentary Screening 🎬

📅 March 8th | 📍 Lynn Family Stadium | ⏰ 7 PM

A powerful documentary by Catherine Gray (host of Invest in Her podcast & founder of She Angel Investors) highlighting the reality that women receive less than 2% of VC funding and demystifying the venture capital world.

👩‍💼 Follow four female founders, backed by rock-star women investors, as they fight to turn their ideas into reality.

🎟️ Tickets: $20 | Students: $5
🌟 Includes: Networking, resources, panel, and post-screening socializing at Bar Nada Nada

💡 Co-hosted by:
 Amanda Dare – Founder & CEO, Woman Owned Wallet
 Heather Bouvier – Founder, The B Scene

🤝 Sponsored by: Racing Louisville, Republic Bank, Baldwin Wealth Partners, Unite Kentucky, Today’s Woman

Don’t miss this inspiring event! 🚀✨

Helping Hand

Corey Wood of Elixir Kombucha is looking for a drone operator videographer for marketing content on their facilities. Please contact Corey

Rachel of Swell is sub-leasing office space (The Pointe) 1205 East Washington St. If you’re looking for office space (3-4 person office space) at a reasonable rate, please contact Rachel.

Events

📣🚀 ANNOUNCING: BUILD & CHILL ❄️💪
March 22nd 9am -5pm @ Story
A fun day of building and chilling.

 Happy Hour - Mar 10th @ 4pm
🥊 Punch and Plunge - Update! March 20th March 13th @ Rumble Boxing ⏰ (thanks Zeeshan!)
🚀 Build & Chill - March 22nd @ Story
💡 Velocity Pitch Competition - Apr 29th @ Story
💻 HackKentucky - Fall 2025 - Oct 4th @ Story

Best of Luck Fellow Pioneers!