The Chattanooga Chamber named Ambition, Learning Blade and RootsRated as finalists for the 2015 Spirit of Innovation Award, presented in conjunction with AIM CareerLink.
Established in 2001, the Chamber’s Annual Spirit of Innovation Awards celebrate innovation, entrepreneurship and technology in the Chattanooga regional economy.
Finalist companies will be honored during the 2015 Spirit of Innovation Awards Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 18, at the Chattanooga Convention Center.
An Innovation Fair highlighting forward-thinking local businesses, sponsors and previous Spirit of Innovation Award recipients will be open before (10:30–11:30 a.m.) and after (1–1:30 p.m.) the luncheon.
Contact events coordinator Kaia Moore at 763-4357 or email events@chattanoogachamber.com for more information on how to participate in the Innovation Fair or to reserve your tickets. Early bird pricing available before Nov. 4; registration deadline is Nov. 11.
You can also find more information and register online by clicking here.
About the finalists:
Life is too short for work to feel small. That’s why a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and elite engineers launched Ambition, a performance management platform that combines cutting-edge gamification, analytics and reporting automation to score user performance in real time. Ambition fuels employee engagement and productivity, inspires people to reach daily performance benchmarks and helps them work together as a team. With accolades from the Harvard Business Review among other well-respected business publications, Ambition draws topnotch tech talent to its home base of Chattanooga.
To get more students interested in STEM jobs, Chattanooga-based Thinking Media created Learning Blade, a web-based STEM curriculum focused on increasing interest in careers like medicine, advanced manufacturing, biomedical engineering and more. In a game-based format, students might build an orphanage or rehabilitate an injured dolphin - missions that solve real-world STEM problems and show how STEM careers help people and communities. In two years, Learning Blade has been used in more than 20 states and adopted statewide for all Tennessee middle schools.
RootsRated brings people who love the outdoors together. With most information powering outdoor recreation tied up in guidebooks or word of mouth, RootsRated helps outdoor, travel and tourism brands engage their customers by putting content online via a dominant platform. These retailers and their networks of local experts handpick outdoor experiences organized by geography and sport. As the fastest growing consumer-facing media platform in the outdoor industry, RootsRated connects people and brands to give consumers the inspirational content they want and to help marketers engage targeted audiences at scale.