Throughout 2022, the Berks LaunchBox supported 148 entrepreneurs with startup ideas, hosted 10 coworking companies, taught more than 400 community members a new skill in the makerspace, impacted 280 students (elementary school through college), and welcomed more than 1,100 people to free classes and webinars. Credit: Berks LaunchBox. All Rights Reserved.
When the Berks LaunchBox first opened nearly seven years ago, it provided a glimmer of hope to Berks County entrepreneurs and innovators. Since then, its impact has grown to be more than its staff could have imagined.
The Berks LaunchBox is celebrating its four-year anniversary of its expansion from Penn State Health St. Joseph’s Downtown Reading Campus to the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania.
An innovation hub of the Invent Penn State initiative, the Berks LaunchBox was created through a seed grant in…
