The Wichita Manufacturer’s Association (WMA) held its monthly member meeting in our event venue on Wednesday. After the event, attendees — both in person and online — went on a tour of Groover Labs with Co-founder Curt Gridley.
Welcome New Members: QuickHire
Sisters Angela and Deborah founded QuickHire earlier this year during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. QuickHire is an app that applies swipe-based features to connect job seekers with available jobs in industries like delivery, grocers, and manufacturers.
Member News: QuickHire
Wichita sisters Deborah Gladney, and Angela Muhwezi-Hall, co-created the app QuickHire, a job search platform for people in manufacturing, service, retail or other similar fields outside of white-collar employment. The coronavirus pandemic pushed them to launch the app in early September.
Members in the News: KingFit
Read about the latest partnership between Groover Labs member Miguel Johns and his startup KingFit with BioTel care. Very exciting! Congrats, Miguel.
Groover Labs Creates Tallgrass Film Festival Awards
The team at Groover Labs made the 2020 Tallgrass Film Festival Awards for the fifth year. We used many tools in our makerspace to create them.
Welcome New Members: Kansas Global Trade Services
Kansas Global Trade Services joined Wichita coworking space Groover Labs in September. Rethinking their traditional office environment gave them increased flexibility, and moving to Groover Labs was a natural fit.
Welcome New Members: Kansas Creative Arts and IdeaTek
Over the past month our we’ve had an uptick in membership, an encouraging sign for what we’re trying to accomplish here at Groover Labs. Read about our new members below. We are delighted to have them join our community!
Welcome to IdeaTek and Kate Van Steenhuyse!
Member News: IdeaTek Awarded $13.1 Million Grant
Buhler-based IdeaTek will receive $13.71 million from four Connectivity Emergency Response Grants (CERG) awarded by the state in response to the novel coronavirus to extend its fiber-optic network to unserved and underserved areas in parts of more than a dozen area counties.
How Do We Produce Our Monthly Tech Talks?
Our tech talk on 9/22 presented a new series of logistical AV challenge. Switching to a digital encoder and YouTube Live created a richer and more diverse show.
Member News: Kansas Global Trade Services
Groover Labs coworking community member Kansas Global Trade Services is working with local startup companies in a pilot program to increase exports and diversify the Wichita-area economy. The program is called the Wichita Export Accelerator Program and could help mitigate future economic downturns.

 
                                
                               
                                
                               
                                
                               
                                
                               
                                
                              








