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August 11, 2023

Connection, Collaboration, and the Conduit Initiative: Bringing 21st Century Tech Entrepreneurship to Rural Southern Oklahoma

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker When the Ada Jobs Foundation received the Economic Development Administration’s Build to Scale Venture Challenge Grant in 2021…

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June 23, 2023

Globo Custom Games: Spreading Family Fun Through Innovation 

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  When Kevin Myers took a job at Legalshield in 2008, he never dreamed that within fifteen years he…

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June 9, 2023

Cooperation, Collaboration, and Building a Better Tomorrow: Bringing Leaders Together at the Quarterly Roundtable

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  To help create scalable tech startups throughout rural Southern Oklahoma, it is necessary to build an ecosystem that…

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June 2, 2023

From Junior Programmer to Tech Entrepreneur: Simon Hamilton’s Perfect Partition 

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  For Simon Hamilton, tech began at home. Simon, a junior at Latta High School, grew up watching his…

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April 15, 2023

Investing in Innovation: Oklahoma Venture Resource Council Meets in Ada, Oklahoma

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  The Oklahoma Venture Resource Council, or OVRC, is an organization that works to increase the number of funded…

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January 18, 2023

GAMI and Tornado Alley Turbo: Innovation Takes Flight in Ada, Oklahoma

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker While most people living in Ada, Oklahoma, have never heard of General Aviation Modifications, Inc., or GAMI for…

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Sunnie Baker and Ashia Todd stand outside the Ada Startup Studio
September 1, 2022

Unpacking Build to Scale: Encouraging a Digital Economy in Rural Southern Oklahoma

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Ada, We Have a Problem In 2019, Ada Jobs Foundation had a problem. Their staff had launched a…

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