The St. Petersburg Innovation District’s thought leaders, as City Councilmember Gina Driscoll noted Wednesday evening, are developing solutions for critical problems “by air, land and sea – even from the Moon.”
The 7th annual State of Science and Innovation highlighted some recent groundbreaking efforts. Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, one of the district’s anchor institutions, hosted the event at its Research and Teaching Center.
Six innovators had just six minutes to showcase their work. Mayor Ken Welch credited district stakeholders for discerning ways to overcome local and global challenges, particularly environmental hazards, and “asking why not?”…