Atlanta Magazine announced their list of Atlanta’s 500 Most Powerful People for 2024. It named JTEC Founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson as a Legend. Read the full article here. Lonnie G. Johnson Johnson earned his master’s degree in nuclear engineering from Tuskegee University and went on to work for the U.S. Air Force and the NASA […]
Johnson, Logan, Rane and Stitts are 2024 Business Alabama Lifetime Achievement winners The 5 will be honored at the Business Alabama Awards in March Excerpted from an article in Business Alabama. By Business Alabama Staff -January 26, 2024 Business Alabama will honor five distinguished people as Lifetime Achievement recipients at the Business Alabama Awards on […]
The Atlanta Business League featured our founder, Lonnie Johnson, in its Lessons From Leaders Series.
By Amy Wenk – Staff Reporter, Atlanta Business Chronicle Oct 10, 2023 Updated Oct 10, 2023 2:58pm EDT About seven years ago, when 23 acres of brick warehouses along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail were turned into a new project called Lee + White, it attracted a collection of popular breweries and restaurants. Now, the next wave of tenants […]
JTEC founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson featured in this week’s profile for “Faces of Change” by Pattrn. Transcript provided by TheGrio. Many know Lonnie Johnson for his invention of the high-performance water gun toy known as the Super Soaker. But, not many know him for his contribution to the Galileo spacecraft as a jet propulsion designer. […]
JTEC founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson was the commencement speaker for the 2023 graduating class of the University of South Alabama. Watch his speech here:
Article by John Sharp for AL.com Spring Hill College Graduation Filtering through misinformation, pushing back against book bans, and being “woke,” were among the charged cultural and topical issues Alabama native and Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson warned against Saturday during a commencement address at Spring Hill College. Johnson, an Atlanta scientist and engineer and […]
Article by Madeleine Key for Forbes A curiosity of the innovation ecosystem is that while inventors are celebrated for their uniquely important contributions, they’re also underrepresented. Inventors are rarely speakers at conferences about intellectual property and technology. They do not hold leadership positions at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A lone inventor sits on […]
Opportunity Hub is joining forces with Greater New Orleans, Inc., The Biden-Harris Administration’s Economic Development Administration and Louisiana Economic Development as a part of the “H2 the Future Build Back Better Hydrogen Energy Innovation Initiative” to launch a New Energy Technology Incubator, prioritizing racial equity in innovation, entrepreneurship and investment. OHUB will host a monthly […]
This billion-dollar-selling toy was inspired by heat pumps Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson talks to Canary Media about the toy’s origin story and what he’s working on now as a climatetech entrepreneur. 31 January 2023 By Mike Munsell for Canary Media An early Super Soaker prototype (lonniejohnson.com) Canary Media’s Climate Meets Culture column explores the intersection of energy, climate […]