digital economy
Justin Berst’s Vision: Valor’s Pioneering AI-Driven Crime Prevention
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker “Hey, you in the blue shirt and ballcap! You’re trespassing and the police have been called!” The voice…
Global Collaborations in Water Policy: Ada, Oklahoma, Bondo, Kenya, and the World Beyond
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker “There are many things that you can afford to go without, but the three things that we need…
Cathlena Spencer: Technological Innovation Hiding in Plain Sight
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Cathlena Spencer first became interested in camouflage when she was a little kid. She was eleven years old,…
Briana Coureur: Community, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Briana Coureur has always had a passion for community and entrepreneurship. When she was working on her Business…
Breaking Down the World Into Data: A Conversation with Vinayak Mitty
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker When Vinayak Mitty was fifteen, he wanted to help his friend with a birthday surprise for his girlfriend….
Bridging Millennia: The Fusion of Art and Technology in Cultural Preservation
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Dustin Mater caught his breath as enthusiasm overtook him. He was looking at images of Chickasaw petroglyphs when…
Coding, Collaboration, and Competition: Inside the Youth Coding League
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker It was August 29th and the anticipation in the Ada Jobs Foundation Conduit offices was palpable. Twelve fifth…
Unlocking the Sky: How Pontotoc Technology Center Is Training the Next Generation of Drone Experts
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker When drones first came on the market, many saw them as a toy, much like the remote-control airplanes…
Mapping our Present, Preparing for our Future: Mark Masoner and True North Mapping and Solutions
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker In 2010, Mark Masoner was working as a paraprofessional at Homer Elementary when he saw a BrainPOP cartoon…
Barbara Bonner-Stephens and the Menace of Feral Hogs: Agricultural Technology and Entrepreneurship
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker The beauty of innovation is that sometimes ideas can come when you least expect them. That was the…