Emporia Main Street excited for future of tech based startups following announcement of EDA grant award to Center of Rural Innovation

Entrepreneurial resources are continuing to expand in Emporia thanks to an announcement by Emporia Main Street Director Casey Woods…. Woods stated Rural Innovation Strategies of the Center of Rural Innovation (CORI) recently applied for grant funding, with the assistance of local CORI Digital Jobs and Entrepreneurship Specialist Ana Blandin, through the Economic Development Administration. That application was recently approved and According to Woods will go to support a series of design sprint workshops in Emporia in the coming months focused on helping to create tech-based startup companies. Woods says tech startups are something the area has needed for quite some time.
Source: KVOE Emporia Radio