Greetings and Happy New Year!

We hope your 2013 is off to a great start. We anticipate many good things happening this year in career and technical education and related fields, and we look forward to bringing you news about the latest developments.

In this issue we focus on the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program. NSF ATE and NCPN share many goals in common, so we welcome every opportunity to highlight the many excellent centers and projects funded through that visionary program.

David Bond, Director NCPN (www.ncpn.info) Mark Whitney Editor, Connections