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The Rankin Robotics team demonstrated their award-winning robot and the STEM principles it encourages.

Entrepreneurship, Women in STEM and Coding Take Center Stage at 2017 Conference on Technology Innovation

The 2017 Conference on Technology Innovation offered a slightly different format and focus this year, swapping breakout sessions for a single stage where "Big Ideas" speakers offered critical suggestions on improving Mississippi's entrepreneurial ecosystem.“We’ve put a lot of emphasis on coding, the innovation ecosystem and economic development in 2017,” said…

Calling All Angels in North Mississippi

Innovate Mississippi has recently helped investors from North Mississippi form The North Mississippi Angel Fund – the first member-managed angel investment fund in the area.

Kickstarter CEO to talk ‘good ideas’ in Mississippi

Crowdfunding has increasingly become a viable source of capital for entrepreneurs and artists seeking to see their dreams come to fruition, their creative endeavors accomplished, their unique products widely distributed. One of the most successful platforms for for acquiring risk-free startup capital, social media marketing and free advertising is the online crowdfunding company Kickstarter. Like its contemporaries…

Walden takes wheel at CAVS; Dennis to lead CAVS Extension

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A major research center at Mississippi State University has a new leader. Bagley College of Engineering alumnus Clay Walden is the new executive director of the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at MSU. He succeeds Roger King, who retired in June after a distinguished career with the university. “Roger…

Kopis Mobile Ranked #384 on the “Inc. 5000 List”

Kopis Mobile is excited to announce that we have been ranked #384 in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S. This is truly an honor for the Kopis Mobile team. Additionally, we ranked third in the Computer Hardware category nationwide and we are the second…

Vicksburg to make $300K investment in new innovation project

Developers involved with the renovations of the old Mississippi Hardware Building unveiled plans Thursday for a $19 million project to convert the former garment factory and hardware building into a multi-floor innovation and tech transfer center to serve the Vicksburg area and the central Mississippi region. Following the presentation, the…

Nearly 3,500 Students Graduate as Mississippi Scholars Tech Master Since 2014

The 2017-18 school year will mark the fourth full year of the Mississippi Scholars Tech Master program. The program was announced in January of 2014 and began in seven pilot counties and today has grown to more than 60 counties. Tech Master was patterned after the Mississippi Scholars program, which…

MSU’s Marty Rogers to Keynote National Tech Forum

OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JD Claridge admits he has always had an affinity for things that flew. After all, he was just seven years old and living in northern Idaho when he attempted to build his first aircraft: a glider made out of duct tape and rebar he got out of his…

Up, up and away! Sunny or stormy, Entergy uses drones to improve reliability

JACKSON, Mississippi – Earlier this year, when strong storms moved through Vicksburg and flooded a substation making it inaccessible from the ground, Entergy Mississippi used drones to look at its equipment and how it was affected by the rising water. “Ordinarily, we would fly over the area in a helicopter…

Networking leads to Walmart deal for Oxford businesswoman

Oxford businesswoman Karen Kurr took her Southern-style frozen casseroles up to Bentonville, Ark., and landed a deal in her first meeting with Walmart. Starting in the fall of 2018, Kurr’s No Time 2 Cook family-size meals will be introduced in the frozen food aisles of 250 Walmarts throughout the Deep…