Hello Fellow Pioneers!

Constraint makes for great art 🎨 .

While we spend the week processing DeepSeek and what they’re able to do without all the resources and high-tech chips, we can also take a page from their ingenuity and resourcefulness. Here’s your chance to 👀 see and apply something closer to home 🏠️ .

HackKentucky is 🚂 85 registered, +30 last week!

We need your help! We have less than 30 days to go, and 50 registered hackers. We planned for 100 ppl but pacing for something much larger! Yes you heard that right, our first shoot-from-the-hip, bias-for-action, hackathon is going to be BIG!

That’s why we’re extending poster print sponsorship for 24 hours! Deadline is Feb 1st, 2025. Sponsor here, and/or suggest a project here

Why HackKentucky?

We’re taking a page from DeepSeek; constraint is the necessity for all invention. HackKentucky can be bigger! Kentucky can be something better. It’s not going to happen through benevolence or tiara-syndrome, it going to come from action and a lot of work! THERE IS NO HELP, THERE IS ONLY YOU!

5 of the top 10 Engineering schools are within driving distance of Louisville. Let’s get this talent here!

For more info check out www.hackkentucky.com
Register here

Events

POKER Night is cancelled. I’ll be travelling!

Checkout other events here. Submit your event here.

Venture Connectors - Wed, Feb 5th, 11:30 @ Kentucky Science Center
HackKentucky - Fri, Feb 21st, 4pm @ Story

Funding

Looking for $250K in Inventory Funding? CPG founders apply for a chance to win $250,000 in no-cost inventory funding. - Check-out https://www.kickfurther.com/cpgrow-2025-application (Thanks @Rachel!) Deadline Jan 31st

Best of Luck Fellow Pioneers!