Our MAGICal Year in Review

For an organization less than a year old (officially), MAGIC has had a very busy year. We are grateful to the many individuals and organizations who’ve played a role in our inaugural year of operations. Here’s a month by month look at what we accomplished together in 2016. JANUARY Building on organizational efforts in the prior…

A Magical Moment

A local lawyer, a self-professed non-techie, was visiting a local non-profit in Westminster for a meeting recently.  He was escorted to the conference room by a young manager at the organization, and as they exchanged pleasantries, both realized that they had a connection. “We’ve met, haven’t we?” asked the lawyer.  The young manager responded, “Were…

We hacked and we sipped

MAGIC hosted its first fundraising event called Hack and Sip. Guests were treated to a fun-filled evening where they deepened their understanding of tech, wine, and MAGIC. The event was held at the Ting office in Downtown Westminster. There were 4 hacking stations hosted by local tech leaders: Password Security, Joe Maurio Wireless Security, Thomas…

Switchbridge joins MAGIC’s Tech Incubator Program

MAGIC WELCOMES MEMBER COMPANY SWITCHBRIDGE, A HEALTH INFORMATICS SOLUTION CREATOR. SwitchBridge provides an analytics driven platform to create the long sought linkage between payors, health records, providers, and patients, and using a modular approach to analytics, provides care management support to improve outcomes and reduce health costs.  Using the patient facing app Wellth, users have direct…

MAGIC Announces First Executive Director

We are pleased to announce that Jason Stambaugh has been selected as our first Executive Director. Here’s a bit about Jason: Jason Stambaugh is an enterprising gentleman based in Westminster, Maryland. Since 2009, he has built a variety of companies including Wevival, a web development and online marketing firm, and LaunchGen, an ed tech firm with the…

Ting Makerspace Grand Opening

On May 10, 2016 Ting hosted an Open House at its newly launched Makerspace in downtown Westminster, Maryland. Dr. Robert Wack, Westminster City Council President and Board Chair of MAGIC said at the event, “We’re going to build a tech community here in Westminster. We want it to be a place that people hear about and want to be a…

MAGIC’s Tech Innovation Challenge #002

  MAGIC PRESENTS ANOTHER TECH INCUBATION PROJECT:  WIRELESS NETWORK FOR THE WESTMINSTER FLOWER & JAZZ FESTIVAL MAY 7TH, 2016 MAGIC, the new technology incubator in Westminster, MD presents another Tech Incubation project in collaboration with Freedom Broadband and Ting Internet, on May 7th in downtown Westminster.  Students from local high schools and the Career &Tech Center have worked with Freedom…