The Cincinnati Fringe Festival is taking over downtown Cincinnati for 12 days of artistic explosion. ENTER: The Keys to Re-entering the Workforce as an Entrepreneur is teaching women how to harness their business ideas and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is back on stage for a limited time.
Local startup Pilus Energy will be among a prestigious group of young, high tech companies presenting their ideas and products at the Launch: Silcon Valley 2010 international launch event. Silcon Valley 2010 will be June 8 at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California. This premiere product launch event is co-sponsored by Garage Technology Ventures, Microsoft and the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. Thirty companies will pitch their products to top VCs, Angels, corporate business development executives, prospective customers and partners, bloggers and media. Pilus Energy, with offices in Covington and Cincinnati, is developing a clean alternative energy technology that duplicates a natural bacterial metabolic process that creates energy for cells. The company has created a reactor that pulls energy, hydrogen gas and water from organic waste matter and turns it into electricity. This process could be used to power the residential, industrial, commercial and transportation sectors and is a renewable, potentially lower cost form of energy production. Pilus was the only Midwest presenter chosen from nearly 400 applicants that include IT, mobility, security, digital media, next generation internet, technology and clean energy companies from around the world. "This will give us a chance to be in front of the world's most famous VCs and give us the opportunity to say what we are doing in Cincinnati to reduce the cost of electricity generation and to make it cleaner," said Jason Barkeloo, Founder & President of Pilus Energy. "(This) is the ideal California venue for us to present our innovative cleantech energy solution. Adopters of our bioreactor will be able to extract energy and water from carbon compounds found in waterways, farms, sewage, wastes, plant pulps, and prepared feedstocks.” Pacific Gas & Electric in northern California has signed up for four pilot programs using the new reactor, says Barkeloo. The company also has a pilot planned for a large agri-farm operation. Soapbox recently featured Pilus Energy in an article Five Cincinnati Companies That Could Change the World. Writer: Feoshia Henderson Source: Jason Barkeloo, Founder & President of Pilus Energy You can follow Feoshia on twitter @feoshiasoapbox
The hugely successful Cincinnati Innovates contest, which distributed more than $50,000 to budding entrepreneurs and inventors with new business ideas last year, is making a big step across the river. Northern Kentucky is now a large part of the contest and is proving to be a big player when it comes to innovation.
By day they are dads, wearing suits and ties, crunching numbers. But, by night, they're dudes, holding guitars, banging drums, playing music. Suits That Rock is a group from Northern Kentucky that unwinds from their professional life with wildly popular shows and fundraisers, playing music, and moving life in Northern Kentucky along.
Cincinnati Metro is asking riders to share their stories about using public transportation in a contest where two community-chosen winners will receive a free one-year buss pass.The "Tell Us Your Story" contest is Cincinnati's part in the national "Public Transportation Takes Us There" campaign of the American Public Transportation Association. Cincinnati's contest borrows from the national campaign by seeking out public stories related to four key areas: economy and jobs, environment, energy independence and quality of life. Metro is looking for concise, personal stories from riders who can explain how public transportation has helped them improve in those four areas. The contest is accepting written and video stories, eight of which will receive a free one-month bus pass. The top two in each medium will receive a free one-year bus pass."We're looking for riders to tell us how metro has helped them get to a job, or cut back on their environmental impact," said Metro Public Affairs Manager Jill Isaacs Dunne. "We're hoping that by the public telling their stories, Metro can tell a story of what it means for people to have public transportation in Cincinnati."Written entries should be limited to 150 words; video entries should be a minute or so. There are several ways to submit them. Metro will capture video at events in Cincinnati this summer, starting with Taste of Cincinnati May 27 on Fountain Square. You can enter your own written and video through Metro's web site. The contest is from May 27 to July 31. Metro will chose winners of the one-month free bus pass and the public will vote for the Grand Prize winners on the metro web site from Aug. 3 to 31.Writer: Feoshia Henderson Source Metro Public Affairs Manager Jill Isaacs DunneYou can follow Feoshia on twitter @feoshiasoapbox http://www.twitter.com/feoshiasoapbox
The multi-media, digital age has transformed communications and journalism in quick and profound ways. Those changes in technology and in how news is disseminated and consumed require a new and evolving kind of journalism education.For the third year in a row Northern Kentucky University's College of Informatics will give area high schools students a taste of what's in store for them in the work world through a week long "Journalism in the Digital Age" workshop, June 14-18.The on-campus day program is open to 20 students and costs $175. It will be held on NKU's Highland Heights campus. The workshop is open to Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati students and is the only type of its kinds in the region. The university's communication programs are part of the school's College of Informatics."So much is changing in journalism, and we want to have the students kind of see what is happening in the field," said program director and NKU journalism lecturer Michele Day.During the program, students will be trained on the fundamentals of journalism including researching, interviewing and writing. Still, most emphasis will square on using those basic skills to create news reports in different media including video, web and photography production."We are really trying to give them a sampling of everything that goes on in online journalism, and the multi-media aspects of it just keep growing," Day said.Students will get individual training in using a video camera and microphone, writing for the web, and creating stories via photo slides. They'll also learn how to publish that work to the web.Among the planned activities is a video scavenger hunt where students will crisscross campus and learn how to combine their video snippets into journalistic stories and post them online.For more information on the program, go to Journalism in the Digital Age Workshop web site. Writer: Feoshia HendersonSource: Michele Day, NKU journalism lectureYou can follow Feoshia on twitter @feoshiasoapbox
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport regained service with Air Canada, offering two daily round trip flights to Toronto. This addition benefits local travelers because Toronto is a major business destination and a main international transfer point. It also shows the strong demand for air service in the local market as well as improvement in diversity of airlines at CVG. Read the full story here.
Procter & Gamble continues their commitment to environmental sustainability by launching the Supplier Environmental Sustainability Scorecard. This rating system requires input from P & G suppliers regarding environmental information. It helps the companies as well as consumers make smart buying decisions as they look at how much of an impact products have on the environment. Read the full story here.
Procter & Gamble launched an "eStore," offering around 2,000 of their own products online. P&G refers to the store as a "learning laboratory" as they experiment with different attractions to online shoppers. Read the full story here.
The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden recently renovated and reopened the Joseph H. Spaulding Children's Zoo - one of the world's oldest. The renovated area includes a new play area with special features, a larger petting yard with the Zoo's friendliest animals, and an updated nursery viewing area. Read the full story here.
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