Who We Are
Orange Sparkle Ball is an innovation and impact accelerator focused on moving public and private organizations’ initiatives forward. Sitting at the junction of research, technology, human-centered design principles and organizational goals, Orange Sparkle Ball creates organization and community-focused innovation programs, runs data-driven pilots to demonstrate proof of the future state, creates multi-faceted communication strategies to stakeholders, and develops environments that support progress toward key metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs). Experience with government, industry, technology startups, public/private partnerships, and academia allow Orange Sparkle Ball to provide a full ecosystem approach to customized solutions.
Upcoming Events
The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Program (AMMP) Accelerator is a 3-month course focused on companies that are pre-revenue and have (ideally) early-stage operations. The Accelerator is a summer program based in Houghton, MI.
Orange Sparkle Ball will walk through their recent collaboration with Macon Black Tech, a non-profit focused on building inclusive resources for tech entrepreneurship and innovation. In this workshop hosted at the Middle Georgia Regional Library, OSB team members will walk through the process of performing a network analysis and demonstrate how they worked with local change-makers to map the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Macon.
Innovation Library
FEATURES
Earlier this month, the OSB team had the great opportunity to attend the Georgia Public Health Association Annual Meeting, hosted at Jekyll Island!
Working directly with those affected by your challenge is crucial in order to effectively solve it. From getting a clear understanding of what stakeholders have experienced, to accurately seeing the challenge space, to co-designing a solution, engaging with stakeholders can be incorporated at every step. Sophie Becker reflects on the best practices of these sessions and what we can learn from them as facilitators.
Recently some of our teammates had the privilege of attending the Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design LaunchPad event. LaunchPad is an end-of-semester showcase where both graduate and undergraduate students display their remarkable projects crafted throughout the semester.
The Partnership for Inclusive Innovation is partnering with Orange Sparkle Ball to implement project-centered Innovation Coaching as a core offering of their upcoming Partnership Leaders Program; a 6-month long engagement designed to provide participants with a soft onboarding to inclusive Tech-Based Economic Development and entrepreneurial ecosystem development.
This past March, Innovation Strategist Diego Perez had the great opportunity to represent OSB on the judging panel of Georgia Tech’s 2024 IDSA Student Merit Awards.
Join OSB’s Ashley Touchton and Hannah Ranieri with Idea Overflow Podcast hosts Dan Perotti and Patrick Payne to hear about OSB’s founding, the story behind the name, their individual career journeys, to forming a relationship with DroneUp, speaking at SXSW 24, and receiving permitting and funding to pilot an autonomous drone pick-up pilot in Detroit, Michigan.
Orange Sparkle Ball has officially received a Transportation Innovation Zone (TIZ) Permit for piloting the autonomous robotic pickup of food waste for composting in the Corktown region of Detroit in partnership with Ottonomy and Scrap Soils with support from Brother Nature Farm.
Orange Sparkle Ball has officially received a Transportation Innovation Zone (TIZ) Permit for piloting the autonomous robotic pickup of food waste for composting in the Corktown region of Detroit in partnership with Ottonomy and Scrap Soils with support from Brother Nature Farm.
As a forward-thinking company deeply committed to fostering innovation and developing talent, we at Orange Sparkle Ball take immense pride in our longstanding partnership with the Georgia Tech Industrial Design program.
While inclusivity and diverse representation are necessary in all fields, they are especially crucial when designing for change. We asked several of our OSB team members to share their thoughts on building inclusive innovation ecosystems and their potential benefits to stakeholders.