by Jessika Leatherbury | Nov 11, 2022 | Digital Economy
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker “Where are you going to find the entrepreneurs?” When the Ada Jobs Foundation brought people together to begin brainstorming how to help more scalable tech startups in our area, we found a lot of agreement about what programs seemed to work....
by Jessika Leatherbury | Oct 7, 2022 | Digital Economy
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker September 18-21 of this year, members of the Ada Jobs Foundation staff had a chance to attend the International Economic Development Council’s (IEDC) Annual Conference in Oklahoma City. They were joined by economic development professionals from...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Aug 25, 2022 | Digital Economy
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker If you were driving down Broadway in Ada on August 3, 2022, you might have noticed a large group of people congregating inside the historic Central Fire Station, looking around, talking to each other, despite the rising heat of the day. What you...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Jul 15, 2022 | Digital Economy, Economic Development
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Selena Galbreaith showing off a basic catapult The high school cafeteria bustled with approximately thirty students around age five, and the air buzzed with excitement as they sent brightly colored fuzzy pompoms soaring across their tables. The...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Jul 8, 2022 | Economic Development
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Many of us learned about “ecosystems” when we were in elementary school. We were taught that an ecosystem was an area where living and non-living things interact, or, as the National Geographic Society defines it, “A geographic area where plants,...
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