by Jessika Leatherbury | Nov 3, 2023 | 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 a pulley system and a conveyor belt, and made cakes, balloons, and presents appear from nowhere, like...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Oct 27, 2023 | Digital Economy
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 in front of him. He had his first meeting with Stephen Alvarez, and both of them...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Oct 6, 2023 | Digital Economy
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 Pontotoc County opened their Chromebooks nervously, excited to begin their journey...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Sep 23, 2023 | Digital Economy
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 stuck in his brain and he thought, “I want to do something like that.” Masoner had...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Sep 8, 2023 | Digital Economy
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 and Technology Commercialization Director for the Oklahoma Small Business...
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