Posts by Nicole Rivas
Local Virtual Reality Game Developer, Fun Train, Launches New Twilight Zone VR Game
Fun Train is a local virtual reality game development company based in the Savannah/Hilton Head area that’s making global waves in the VR gaming community. The company produces a variety of VR experiences, with releases including “The Exorcist: Legion VR,” “Tarzan VR™,” and the highly-anticipated “The Twilight Zone VR™,” which launched earlier this month.
Read MoreInventureIT is a Regional Company That Makes Global Impacts
If you’re a business looking for IT management, custom software systems, network support, tech support, integration, and technology consulting services, look no further than InventureIT. The Georgia-based company was founded in 2007 and is the brainchild of entrepreneurs Jeremy Fletcher (Chief Technology Officer), Lee McKinney (Chief Information Officer), Brent Newsome (Chief Executive Officer), and Stacey Roach (Chief Operating Officer). This month, The Creative Coast spoke with COO Stacey Roach about InventureIT’s story, its mission, and what it provides to the greater community.
Read MoreSavannah’s Inaugural Girls Code Games Summer Camp Wraps
Photo: Robert Batchelor
Last week, The Creative Coast teamed up with the Girls Who Code (GWC) Savannah Chapter to offer Savannah’s first marine-science-themed Girls Who Code Summer Camp. From July 11th to July 15th, over 30 girls from 20 Chatham County schools worked alongside female marine scientists, teachers, and counselors to learn coding skills for the first time. The GWC camp took place at both the UGA Institute of Oceanography and Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus. Throughout the week-long camp, which ran from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day, the group of 5th to 8th grade participants learned about underwater robotics and worked to build their own marine-themed video game.
Read MoreAlternative Money Mondays: A Cryptocurrency Podcast Feeds the Crypto-Curious
The Creative Coast has teamed up with DLT (Distributed Ledger Technologies) Sandwich: A Cryptocurrency Podcast for their weekly podcast that focuses on Hedera Hashgraph’s HBAR. This week, the Creative Coast had the opportunity to speak with the podcast’s founder, Jeremy Fletcher, to discuss what the show covers, who else is involved, and how you can tune in to the next episode.
Read MoreMad Scientist Summer Camp Helps Local Students Explore Opportunities in STEM
Each year, The Creative Coast aims to coordinate a STEM summer camp with Chatham County recreational centers. This summer, The Creative Coast teamed up with Operation One STEM at a Time’s founder Ambria Berksteiner to run two four-day workshops to help students explore concepts in chemistry, biology, and engineering. The workshops, known collectively as Mad Scientist Summer Camp, were held at the Pennsylvania Avenue Resource Center (PARC) and W.W. Law. PARC’s STEM camp ran from June 6-9th and W.W. Law’s camp ran from July 11-14th.
Read MorePlug and Play’s Savannah Selection Day Event Signals Opportunity To Come
On June 28th, 2022, Plug and Play hosted their Savannah Selection Day event at the JA Colonial Group Discovery Center within Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus. Plug and Play is a global innovation platform founded in 2006 that works to connect early stage investors, startups, and established companies. (Photo: Tyler Edic for Plug and Play)
Read MorecSpot’s Monthly Creative Socials Return to Savannah This July
Savannah’s monthly social meetup for creatives, cSpot, is returning this month after a two-year hiatus. Megan Kranzler, local creative and owner of Olive Ridley Studios, has been working behind the scenes to make cSpot’s July return possible.
Read MoreApplications Are Open to the Big50 Startup Competition
The Big50 Startup Competition is now accepting applications from tech startups founded in 2014 or later. The competition was started by Jeff Vance, founder of Startup50, who set out in 2013 to improve the journalism economy. Following Startup50’s success, Big50 was born as a way to help startups gain traction, reach their goals and tackle real-world challenges.
Read MoreCall for Applications to Cartier Women’s Initiative’s Three Award Opportunities – Win Up to $100k
This month, Cartier Women’s Initiative is offering three award opportunities to women entrepreneurs whose businesses or initiatives have a noteworthy social and/or environmental impact. The three award categories include the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, the Science and Technology Pioneer Award, and the Regional Awards.
Read MoreSampson Digital Media Management & Consultation Plans to Put People First
Jordan Sampson is the CEO of Sampson Digital Media Management & Consultation and the recent first-place winner of FastPitch 2022. Before she began her startup, she was also the first place winner of the SSU Tiger Den Pitch Competition which she won after months of prepping her pitch with a business mentor and honing her business plan through a series of workshops. And long before that, she was a 7th grader singing in an Alabama church choir who realized that her talents lay in other areas of production where she could help people in unexpected ways.
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