Digital Economy

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker When Vinayak Mitty was fifteen, he wanted to help his friend with a birthday surprise for his girlfriend. Mitty took a motor from a moped, added...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Dustin Mater caught his breath as enthusiasm overtook him. He was looking at images of Chickasaw petroglyphs when he started naming the different images and figures...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker It was August 29th and the anticipation in the Ada Jobs Foundation Conduit offices was palpable. Twelve fifth and sixth graders from three different schools in...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker When drones first came on the market, many saw them as a toy, much like the remote-control airplanes and helicopters of our youth. However, while drones...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker In 2010, Mark Masoner was working as a paraprofessional at Homer Elementary when he saw a BrainPOP cartoon about George Washington surveying the west. The cartoon...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker The beauty of innovation is that sometimes ideas can come when you least expect them. That was the case for Barbara Bonner-Stephens. Bonner-Stephens was the Regional...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker It was the winter of 1986 and Bruce Jones was sitting in a cold dark room, wearing a heavy military coat. The heat was off, and...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Cody Soden has a passion for gaming, and he isn’t alone. Soden, the Director of Alumni Relations and ECU Tiger Esports Coach, started his journey into...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker When the Ada Jobs Foundation received the Economic Development Administration’s Build to Scale Venture Challenge Grant in 2021 (Award number ED21HDQ0240067), new possibilities were created in...

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker One of the main goals of the Startup Conduit Initiative for Southern Oklahoma is to support entrepreneurs, specifically technology entrepreneurs. However, with the goal of inspiring...