Five University of Kansas students participating as the Rock Chalk 1 team walked away with top honors in the first-ever Code-A-Thon hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Teammates Andrew Tribble, Alex Warrington and Zach Welk at the KU Edwards campus and Justin Roderman and Alex Shadley at the Lawrence campus placed first for their voter registration and activation app called ElectionIQ. The app allows users to become…

The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched the Aspire Challenge, a prize competition of up to $1.2 million to expand access to entrepreneurial education and microloans for formerly incarcerated individuals. Approximately 60 percent of formerly incarcerated individuals remain unemployed one year after release. Supported by targeted resources, self-employment can be an alternative for this population. The Aspire competition bolsters efforts by organizations nationwide to assist formerly incarcerated individuals by providing…

Accounting and consulting firm MarksNelson has promoted Sarah Schiltz and Tammy Siegrist to partner. Schiltz is the youngest woman to become partner in the history of MarksNelson. She joined the firm in 2005. Schiltz specializes in partnership taxation, real estate accounting and tax services for high net-worth clients. Siegrist has spent the last 13 years of her career in public accounting focusing on the insurance industry. She is part of…