Meridian Technology Center will break ground on its South Division Campus in Guthrie on October 9. The new facility will be located at 3025 South Division Street and will include space for short courses focused on personal and professional development, business and industry training, and space for entrepreneurs to grow a new business. The 42,520 […]

Employees of Perry’s Parrish Electric Inc. may not be related by birth to owners Randy and Donna Parrish, but many of them come from a long line of Meridian graduates the Parrishes consider to be family. The Parrishes consistently hire employees from Meridian Technology Center’s Electrical Technology program, the same school where Randy Parrish got […]

Meridian Technology Center and the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce are partnering to bring Leadercast Women, a nationwide virtual leadership summit, to Stillwater on November 21. Leadercast Women 2019 will create a positive, safe, comfortable and collaborative environment for women to have an amazing leadership experience. Presenters include Kendra Scott, Susan Packard, Kate Delaney, Francesca Gino, […]

Entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to focus on launching their startup without having to quit their day job.  Startup Stillwater has opened registration for the third cohort of the Startup Accelerator.  Past attendees have ranged from young professionals to retirees, but they all had one thing in common: a business idea that they were ready […]

MITO Material Solutions, a tenant of the Meridian Technology Center for Business Development, was recently awarded a $ 729,982 Small Business Innovation Research phase two grant from the National Science Foundation. This grant, along with two recent grants from the Oklahoma Center for Advanced Technology, total $1.1 million in funding to help MITO advance product […]

Nothing spikes a manager’s anxiety level quite like having to terminate a team member. Sometimes, though, it’s the best thing you can do for your organization as well as the employee’s long-term success. So how do you let someone go with compassion and dignity and respectfully protect your business in the process? On September 10, […]

Meridian Technology Center recently announced new personal and professional development short courses. “We have a wide variety of classes for people to explore in the next few months. Whether they want to have fun or if they are interested in enrolling in a short course to prepare for a full-time career, we have several new […]

It’s been estimated that you think between 20,000 and 70,000 thoughts a day, and all that inner dialogue adds up! Research reveals that self-talk can have a huge impact on personal success, but what steps can you take to harness this ongoing battle in your brain? On August 13, as part of the new Lunchtime […]

About to begin his senior year at Pawnee High School, Kobe Allenbaugh knows what he wants to do after graduation: become a computer numerical control machinist like his dad. “My dad is a machinist, and he’d take me to work with him sometimes. I just liked the machine shop and what they do.” Allenbaugh took […]

Parents and new students attending Meridian Technology Center have the chance to get a jump-start on their time at Tech on August 12 with Parent and New Student Orientation. “We want parents and new students who are attending Meridian to feel like they are a part of the school from day one,” said Jeanie Zagar, […]