The road to redemption runs through Tyrone
How failure, gumption and the power of friendship created one of the biggest European motorsport franchises on the East Coast When Josh Nolten and Dave Myers became friends at Park Forest Junior High, mainly because their last names and thus their lockers were so dang close together, they never imagined that one day they’d be […]
Online Shopping Attracts New Customers to Local Farm Markets
A visit to any farmers market is, by its very nature, social. The mingling with other shoppers. The chit-chatting with the vendors. You get to know your neighbors and the folks who grow your food on a deeper level. So what happens when the “social” part of just about everything is stripped away and the […]
Penn State Entrepreneurialism By the Numbers
Penn State started out as a land-grant school to provide an ag education to children of farmers and working families all over Pennsylvania. It’s never lost sight of entrepreneurial-minded Pennsylvanians, people who put their own sweat equity into building businesses from the ground up. Over the last decade, that focus on entrepreneurialism has deepened as […]
Hometown Turnaround: Entrepreneur Offers Free Lewistown Storefront
The Facebook post read like the opening of a good book: “I will be offering a free storefront for 12 months. Looking for something unique that is proven to be successful to downtown Lewistown to make it a walking town. Submit an actual business plan, not just a vision.” But this wasn’t fiction; it was […]
Happy Valley’s Kijenzi Enables World-Class Manufacturing for Anyone, Anywhere
Started right here in Happy Valley, Kijenzi is now developing solutions to deliver medical equipment to remote areas in four different countries around the world utilizing 3D printing. The founding team at Kijenzi came together through Penn State’s humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship program. “We launched out of the university and kept Happy Valley as […]
Ben Franklin Giving Happy Valley Innovators a Boost with $50k Grand Prize
Ben Franklin Technology Partners is looking for innovators with big ideas in Happy Valley, Clarion, Clearfield, and Jefferson Counties — and the winner takes home $50,000. “If you are developing or crafting a product, process or innovation related to the maker economy, outdoors and recreation, forest products, manufacturing or technology, you need to apply for […]
Speeding Up the Scientific Process Through the Power of AI
A group of Penn State researchers that received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy is aiming to improve the efficiency of turbines for power generation through the use of artificial intelligence. Wesley Reinhart, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State, said that higher efficiency […]
Penn State Moves into Top 25 for Entrepreneurship Studies
In just a year, Penn State has moved up 15 spots to 21 in the Princeton Review and Entrepreneurship magazine’s 2022 top schools for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies. Penn State’s growing entrepreneurship ecosystem includes areas of focus inside and outside the classroom. In addition to the Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship major through Smeal College of Business, […]
“It’s Not About Being Right, It’s About Getting it Right”
“We’ve all seen other local companies where successful entrepreneurs sell to a large company and eventually lose their identity and their employees — and their culture is gone,” says Restek’s Head Coach Bryan Wolcott. “But we were determined to sustain for the long term.” Holding onto the principles that founder Paul Silvis had infused into […]
