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WE ARE OMNISITE
Within the tidy, nondescript, brick building that fronts West Morris Street in the city’s Old Southside neighborhood, “OmniSite is a small engineering rm that creates and sells cellular boxes that can send sensory data back to Web portals,” explains Gage Wilkinson, our product development engineer.
But to a good number of engineering students, Boy Scouts, neighborhood youth, and parishioners of a nearby church, the company is known more for its generosity and giving spirit more than its state-of-the-art monitoring equipment.
Wilkinson rst learned of OmniSite
a couple years ago as a Rose-Hulman student in the school’s Ventures program. Ventures connects students with companies that have engineering work opportunities and budgets
to pay them. Wilkinson worked at OmniSite before he graduated.
About a year later, Ward contacted
money is going for something that I believe in – not something like
a sculpture in a hallway with my name on it,” he says. “But having the students who are spending a ton
to go Rose-Hulman get experience working here has a really good purpose. It helps them and us.”
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accepted. well beyond its corporate needs to fulill the needs of other students and
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It’s just one of the ways Ward pays it
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forward. “I would never just write a
IUPUI
Ward o ered to donate the Innovation Fund $100,000 over several years. Since 2011 he has gifted $60,000 of that amount. Part of the money given in 2015 purchased a 3-D printer for the
lab at the Engineering School.
IUPUI IoT Lab
Ward worked with the IUPUI’s IoT (Internet of Things) Lab and Professor to contract work to students to perform supervised research projects for OmniSite. The total value of work contracted tallied $30,096.
PHOTOS: LEFT Gage Wilkinson with our OmniBeaconTM product he helped produce during his Rose-Hulman Ventures tenure. Photo courtesy of Rose-Hulman.
check to Rose-Hulman and just say ‘Do whatever you want with this,’ because I want to make sure the
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OMNISITE PAYS IT FORWARD:
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