Our 2019 Annual Report: Gearing Up For Innovation
Sprocket 2019 ANNUAL REPORT If you want to know what Sprocket is all about, here’s the perfect place to start. Inside you’ll find our highlights from 2019 along with an overview of the projects and initiatives that make Sprocket uniquely qualified to...
Everybody Gets A Computer…
…as long as you are among the first 14 kids (teams) to sign up for an exciting PiTop Hackathon at Sprocket on Saturday, April 25th! Thanks to a generous donation facilitated by Murray native, Elijah Phillips, at PiTop, kids ages 11 to 15 will build a laptop that...
Register Now! — LEMONADE ACADEMY
What is Lemonade Academy? Paducah/McCracken County parents: does your child possess amazing powers of negotiation? Exhibit a Montgomery Burns-like talent for shrewd decision making? Frequently attempt to act as CEO of the house? Fret no more! Lemonade Academy is a...Join Our Team This Summer
Summer Youth Facilitator PART-TIME SUMMER POSITION requires strong organizational skills, experience with project-based learning, and the ability to develop an excellent rapport with youth. Create an environment where youth are inspired, delighted, and have fun...
It’s All Happening at Sprocket Makerspace
Greetings, tinkerers! We’re excited today to update you on all the progress we’ve made at Sprocket over the last few months. Workstations Happened On February 10th, we hosted a Maker’s Meetup. Tilghman students working alongside industrial engineers...Tech and Making: Events You Don’t Want To Miss
If you haven’t joined us for a Tech On Tap at Dry Ground Brewery, come on! We meet once a month at Dry Ground Brewery (in their back room near our studio). We bring out some pizza around 5:30 and start the discussion from 6-7. We are always looking for speaking...
As Factories Fade, Rural District Builds Makerspace to Fill Talent Gaps
I met Trevor (name has been changed) when he was a high school senior in 2014. From a coal mining family in western Kentucky, he’d just suffered a major family crisis and his mother was struggling with mental illness. Understandably, his grades were beginning to...
How We Got Here
In 2015, we began to have in-depth conversations with emerging industry leaders in our community. They were in search of talent that could communicate effectively and solve problems in a rapidly changing technological environment. As one COO of a cyber security...