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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mantle. will host the “StartupBus” on Tuesday, August 1 Wednesday, August 2, as the annual competition rolls through town on the way to New Orleans. “We will be hosting our StartupBus friends Tuesday night after 5 p.m. at Mantle. with beer, food and a live DJ,” says Mantle’s Christopher Lomax. “Come…
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI (July 25, 2017) – GC3-Girls Code. Create. Connect. is inspiring young women to pursue technology by teaching fifteen (15) girls computing concepts with fun, interactive activities through NCWIT AspireIT – a technology outreach program for K-12 girls, supported by Intel, Northrop Grumman, and Google. GC3-Girls Code. Create. Connect.…
Innovate Mississippi President and CEO Tony Jeff was recently honored by the Mississippi Business Journal as one of the state’s leading technology experts. Tony was named to the 2017 “Top in Tech” class alongside 27 other distinguished individuals and companies that are making significant contributions to technology and innovation within…
Tony Jeff is president and CEO of Innovate Mississippi. Jeff is a graduate of Mississippi State University and Northwestern University. He joined Innovate Mississippi in 2002, and took over as the company’s chief in 2010. He recently spoke to Sun Senior Staff Writer Anthony Warren about the organization and its…
The city of Vicksburg is seeking more than $500,000 in federal grant funds to upgrade and improve the city-owned parking area at the old Mississippi Hardware building at the corner of Washington and Depot streets as part of a plan to transform the building into high tech center. The Board…