news & events

New product for garden enthusiasts. Phospholutions launched their 1st consumer product Soil Saver at a spring launch event here at the LaunchBox (no, that’s not why we call it that). Celebrating the arrival of spring, Hunter Swisher and Ben Nason put together an event designed to bring together garden enthusiasts and connect them with local companies that specialize the nursery and garden space. Local companies share products, food, and music. Around 80 people showed up to check out what these companies have to offer. Ben Nason commented that he was pleased to see the number of gardening enthusiasts who came out to the...

We were lucky to have Herbert Reininger, Creative Director for Penn State Outreach, as our 1st speaker in our Spring Speaker Series. In a nutshell, here are his top 7 tips for crafting compelling presentations: Slides are not documents. Remember, people can’t read and listen at the same time (no matter how good a multi-tasker they think they are). Pictures say a thousand words. In other words (pun intended), reinforce your message with images not words. Keep it simple. Nuf said. Keep it consistent. Ditto. Show data clearly. Thinking about #2 above, consider a visualization of data instead of raw numbers. Start...