Red Oak neighbors gathered around a table sharing ideas

A Community Capacity Initiative

Help people turn ideas into action.

BUILD RED OAK brings people together around real ideas, real challenges, and real opportunities. Connection is infrastructure. Action is the outcome.

BUILD RED OAK | An Ideas-to-Action Workshop

Friday, December 11, 2026 | 10:00 AM–3:00 PM

Red Oak Government Center Community Room | Red Oak, Texas

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Discover what’s already here

Ideas, skills, relationships, tools, and resources already exist in the community. BUILD RED OAK helps people connect them and put them to work.

Hands arranging handwritten idea cards on a community table
  • 01

    Ideas into action

    Get clearer about what you want to build or change.

  • 02

    Practical tools

    Put AI and other useful tools to work on a real need.

  • 03

    Useful connections

    Meet people who can share knowledge, resources, or perspective.

  • 04

    Concrete next steps

    Leave with a next move you can put into practice.

Already here

Red Oak’s capacity is already in the community.

BUILD RED OAK is not about outsiders arriving to fix a place. It helps people discover, connect, and activate the knowledge, ability, relationships, and possibility already present locally.

Practical tools

Practical tools

AI is one tool among many. Use it alongside your judgment and experience to work on a real challenge.

Local knowledge

Local knowledge

The community’s experience, ideas, and expertise are valuable starting points.

Connection is infrastructure

Connection is infrastructure

Useful relationships help people find knowledge, resources, and ways forward.

People collaborating around a table covered in paper and pens

A hands-on activation of BUILD RED OAK.

December 11 is one activation of the larger initiative—not all that BUILD RED OAK is. Participants work on something real, make useful connections, and identify a concrete next step.

  • Friday, December 11, 2026
  • 10:00 AM–3:00 PM
  • Red Oak Government Center Community Room
  • Red Oak, Texas
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The December BUILD RED OAK activation is being developed through the Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship, powered by Watson Institute, in connection with IAEC (Inter-American Educational Consortium).

Bring what you have. Build what comes next.

This is practical work, not a day spent listening to speakers. Bring something real and work on it with others.

Neighbors’ hands connecting notes and resource cards
  • Bring a real idea, business, project, opportunity, or challenge.
  • Get clearer about what you’re trying to move forward.
  • Put AI to work on a real need.
  • Discover people, knowledge, and resources.
  • Leave with a concrete next step.
An idea to explore

An idea to explore

Give a promising thought room to become a practical next move.

A business or project to strengthen

A business or project to strengthen

Work through a real opportunity or challenge with fresh perspective.

Something useful to contribute

Something useful to contribute

Bring your skills, experience, or resources into the conversation.

Build something useful, together.

Bring an idea, a business, a project, a challenge, or something you can contribute. There’s a place for practical work and useful connection in BUILD RED OAK.

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There’s room to build with you.

Come ready to share what you’re working on, what you’re trying to solve, or what you can offer. Help discover and connect the capacity already here.

  • An idea
  • A challenge
  • A business
  • A project
  • Your skills
  • Resources
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