Alumni startup teaches STEM skills

Chicago Tribune (Feb. 8) -- Add building robots to the list of out-of-school activities required for kids to be competitive college applicants and future workers. Digital Adventures, which runs summer camps and after-school courses to expose kids to engineering and computer science, aims to provide the experience some parents think is necessary to get into the increasingly attractive field. Digital Adventures co-founder Omowale Casselle is a mechanical engineer with degrees from Illinois and the University of Michigan, as well as an MBA from the Harvard School of Business. His cofounder, Arjun Venkataswamy, is a fellow University of Illinois-trained engineer with a master's in education from Northwestern University and a former instructor at the coding bootcamp Starter League. Also: ASEE FirstBell (Feb. 9).