Rural Innovation

October 24, 2022

PRESS RELEASE: Applications Now Open for the Big Pitch: Ada 2022

ADA, OKLAHOMA – Applications are now open to compete in the Big Pitch: Ada 2022 business pitch competition taking place on November…

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October 21, 2022

Celena Galbreaith: Technology and the Joy of Creative Problem Solving

By Sunnie Dawn Baker   For 16 years, Celena Galbreaith has been on the frontlines of technology. Her experience has provided her with…

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October 14, 2022

Designing Innovation for a New Generation: The Pontotoc Technology Center FabLab

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker In 2016, administration at Pontotoc Technology Center (PTC) saw a need and had an idea to fill that…

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October 7, 2022

Embracing Rural Innovation: Coming Together at the IEDC Annual Conference

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker September 18-21 of this year, members of the Ada Jobs Foundation staff had a chance to attend the…

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October 2, 2022

A Thirst for Innovation: The Future of Water Technologies in Ada, Oklahoma

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Duane Smith is sitting on top of the world, or more specifically, on top of world-leading research about…

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September 16, 2022

Visioning and Re-Visioning: Incubating Ideas for Tech Entrepreneurship

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker The future is digital. One of the most significant ways to grow an economy and create jobs and…

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August 25, 2022

The Fire Station: Historic Ada Moves into the Future of Innovation

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker If you were driving down Broadway in Ada on August 3, 2022, you might have noticed a large…

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July 1, 2022

Ada Startup Workshop: How to Create Better Market Research 

By: Sunnie Dawn Baker  When the Ada Jobs Foundation updated their Economic Development Strategic Plan in 2020, they realized they didn’t want…

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