Grand Ideas
Eric Hill, director of the Ï㽶ֱ²¥Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach, speaks to the crowd gathered in downtown Starkville to celebrate the grand opening of the Ï㽶ֱ²¥Idea Shop on Thursday [March 7]. The Idea Shop is a 2,000-square-foot facility that contains the Turner A. Wingo Maker Studio and the Ï㽶ֱ²¥Retail Product Accelerator, helping entrepreneurship thrive among Ï㽶ֱ²¥students and in the Starkville community. Pictured behind Hill are, from left, Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill, Ï㽶ֱ²¥President Mark E. Keenum and College of Business Dean Sharon Oswald.