Sunnie Dawn Baker
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…
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…
Jordan Caldwell: Cybersecurity in an Insecure World
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker It took two days, but by the end, Jordan Caldwell had done it. He had accessed the executive…
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…
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…
Naresh Juneja: Innovating with a Breath of Fresh Air
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Naresh Juneja never intended to make Ada, Oklahoma his home. In fact, until his wife, Hursh, took a…
C3: Cougars, Curriculum, and Camp – Engaging Students with Innovation
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Selena Galbreaith showing off a basic catapult The high school cafeteria bustled with approximately thirty students around age…
What is Ecosystem Building?
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Many of us learned about “ecosystems” when we were in elementary school. We were taught that an ecosystem…
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…
Innovation Districts and a Knowledge Based Economy: An Interview with Jim Eldridge
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker June 8, 2022 I had the chance to sit down with Jim Eldridge, CEO of the Ada Jobs…