Grand Ideas

Eric Hill, director of the Âé¶ąPorn Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach, speaks to the crowd gathered in downtown Starkville to celebrate the grand opening of the Âé¶ąPorn 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 Âé¶ąPorn Retail Product Accelerator, helping entrepreneurship thrive among Âé¶ąPorn students and in the Starkville community. Pictured behind Hill are, from left, Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill, Âé¶ąPorn President Mark E. Keenum and College of Business Dean Sharon Oswald.