HI-TEC 2009 VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

Please visit our 2009 HI-TEC Exhibitors in The Grand Hall. Exhibits are open on Tuesday, July 21, 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (with an Exhibitor Reception 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.) and Wednesday, July 22, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Booth numbers are listed above each company name.

For information about exhibiting at HI-TEC, contact Teemus Warner (twarner@cord.org).


26E
AgrowKnowledge
6301 Kirkwood Blvd. SW
Cedar Rapids, IA
www.agrowknow.org

AgrowKnowledge, the National Resource Center for Agriscience and Technology Education seeks to maintain a national partnership of community colleges. Our work is enhanced by the involvement of business and industry, leading universities in agriculture education, secondary schools, and professional associations. The purpose of AgrowKnowledge is to grow educational and business partnerships that strengthen math, science and technology skills of college agriculture, food and natural resource students by delivering high quality professional development workshops and curriculum to secondary and postsecondary educators that incorporate new and emerging technologies into agriculture, food and natural resources programs; responsive to agriculture industry employment opportunities. AgrowKnowledge is funded, in part, by a grant from the Advanced Technological Education program of the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation [DUE #0802510].Our website is www.agrowknow.org.


8E
Amatrol, Inc.
2400 Centennial Blvd.
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
www.amatrol.com

Amatrol is a market leader in technical education, emphasizing hands-on skills via both virtual and equipment labs. Amatrol's learning systems in pre-engineering, project based learning, advanced manufacturing and technology programs include courseware for self-directed, distance and lecture/lab programs, equipment, computerized trouble-shooting and authentic assessment. Think job-ready skills in electrical, mechanical, fluid power, automation systems, and process control!


33E
Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC)
300 N. Main Street
Versailles, KY 40383
www.autoworkforce.org

AMTEC is a multi-college, multi-state collaborative of community and technical colleges and industry partners working together to improve the initial and ongoing preparation of high skill technicians and manufacturing engineers for successful work in automobile manufacturing. The work of the Collaborative will benefit students, incumbent workers, and employers.


54N - Tuesday
BattleBots
Larry Geczy
Maricopa Skill Center/BattleBots
l.geczy@gwmail.maricopa.edu
www.azbbiq.com

BattleBots are remote-controlled, armored and weaponized machines which students design and/or build. The "battles" take place in a 13' x 13' enclosed arena. The purpose of the battle is for one "bot" to dominate or disable the other. Students from the Maricopa Skill Center will demonstrate their creations on Tuesday in the Technology Showcase.


41N
Bio-Link
City Colleges of San Francisco
1855 Folsom Street, Suite 643
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.bio-link.org

Bio-Link is the ATE Resource Center in biotechnology funded by NSF. Bio-Link's mission is to strengthen and expand biotechnology technician education at community and technical colleges.


9E
Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Connection
(BATEC)
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
www.batec.org

An NSF-funded Regional Center for Information Technologies, BATEC focuses on professional and curriculum development, student success and partnerships with business and community.


12E
California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education
(CREATE)
26455 Rockwell Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91355
www.create-california.org

The California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE) project is a joint effort between seven community colleges and over 30 large high tech engineering/technology employers. Its purposes are to develop a regional approach to workforce preparation and training, and to meet emerging needs for innovative, flexible strategies to educate the workforce in new technological advances in a wide range of high demand engineering technology fields. These fields include Computer Networking, Electronic Technologies, Manufacturing and Renewable Energies.


10E
Center for Occupational Research and Development
(CORD)
601 Lake Air Drive
Waco, TX 76710
www.cord.org

The Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) is a nonprofit educational organization with 30 years experience supporting community colleges across the country. Stop by and learn more about our curriculum design services in STEM and technical fields, our customized faculty development programs, and technical assistance for both adult and traditional career pathway programs.


25E
College of Technology, Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing
(RCNGM)
61 Woodland Street
Hartford, CT 06105
www.nextgenmfg.org

Our mission is to provide Connecticut employers with a highly motivated workforce, well skilled in 21st Century technology and engineering applications.


29E
Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing
(CARCAM)
Inzer Hall, Room 143
1001 George Wallace Drive
Gadsden, AL 35902
www.carcam.org

Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing (CARCAM) is a consortium of five Alabama Community Colleges assembled to prepare students for employment in automotive manufacturing, automotive support, and related industries in addition to offering professional development and training for incumbent workers.


11E
Convergence Technology Center
9700 Wade Blvd.
Frisco, TX 75035
www.convergencetechnologycenter.org

The Convergence Technology Center creates certificates and degrees for technicians supporting the convergence of voice, video, data and image over a secure network.


14E
EMC Corporation
176 South Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
www.emc.com

EMC Corporation, the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions, created the EMC Academic Alliance (EAA) program to educate students about the fastest growing segment of IT: Storage. Corporations are spending significant portions of their IT budget (~$66 Billion in 2008) on technologies such as SAN, NAS, Data Replication, Security, and Virtualization to solve the problems of storage capacity, data availability, and data mobility. EAA offers an 'Open' course on Information Storage and Management and a faculty readiness seminar to colleges and universities to create partnerships that develop tomorrow's information storage professionals today.


42N
eSyst: Electronics Systems Technology
4110 E. Wood Street, Suite 1
Phoenix, AZ 85040
www.esyst.org

eSyst is a National Science Foundation-funded project that supports the development of courses and instructional materials with an "electronics systems" point of view. The goal is to invigorate electronics curriculum to insure students graduate from electronics programs with the skills desired by themselves and their employers.


54N - Wednesday
FIRST Robotics
Carol Popovich
FIRST Robotics/Microchip
first@microchip.com
www.azfirst.org

FIRST Robotics challenges teams of young people and their mentors to solve a common problem in a six-week timeframe using a standard "kit of parts" and a common set of rules. Teams build robots from the parts and enter them in various competitions. Students from Cesar Chavez High School - Team 2128 in Phoenix will show off some of their creations in a roped off area within the Technology Showcase on Wednesday.


31E
Florida Advanced Technological Educational Center
(FLATE)
10414 E. Columbus Dr.
Tampa, FL 33619
www.fl-ate.org

FLATE (Florida Advanced Technological Education Center) is an NSF ATE Regional Center of Excellence for Manufacturing and related technologies. The Center is housed at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Florida and serves technical education in the high schools, technical schools and community colleges in the entire state of Florida. FLATE is the originator of the well-known "Made in Florida" outreach and recruitment campaign (www.madeinflorida.org), the "Toothpick Factory" Simulation for Soft Skills, and Florida's Engineering Technology A.S./A.A.S. Degrees. Strong partnerships with educational institutions, industry and the Florida Department of Education have allowed FLATE to become the go-to organization in Florida for support for technical education related to manufacturing. Visit our home website at www.fl-ate.org.


53N
Hampden Engineering Corporation
99 Shaker Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
www.hampden.com

Hampden Engineering manufactures the latest in educational training apparatus and testing equipment in support of engineering, vocational, technical and industrial training programs.


7E
Information and Communications Technologies Center
(The ICT Center)
One Armory Square, Suite 1
Springfield, MA 01102
www.ictcenter.org

The ICT Center is preparing students and technicians for the ICT industry where unified communications and rapidly changing ICT applications are presenting technology opportunities that did not exist a decade ago.


13E
Internet Scout
1210 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
www.scout.wisc.edu

AMSER is a free online portal of applied math and science resources and services built specifically for educators and students in community and technical colleges.


32E
Juniper Networks, Inc.
1194 N. Mathilda Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
www.juniper.net

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.


6E
Lab-Volt Systems
P.O. Box 686
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
www.labvolt.com

Lab-Volt is a world leader in tech-ed, providing comprehensive, multimedia-rich e-learning, blended learning, and custom learning solutions, as well as extensive, cutting-edge, hands-on, and simulation training curriculum. Lab-Volt also offers hands-on programs, including FACET®, Automation, Electric Power & Controls, Wind Power Technology, Fluid Power, Telecommunications, Instrumentation & Process Control, and Refrigeration, Heating & Air Conditioning.


43N
MATEC NetWorks
4110 E. Wood Street, Suite 1
Phoenix AS 85040
www.matecnetworks.org

NetWorks provides resources and faculty professional development for semiconductors, automation and electronics. Discover our Digital Resource Library, Webinars, TechSpectives Blog, and @matec Newsletter at www.matecnetworks.org


18E
MatEd Materials Resource Center
20000 68th Avenue West
Lynnwood, WA 98036
www.materialseducation.org

The National Resource Center for Materials Technology Education (MatEd) is fostering a national network of industry and educational professionals with the aim of increasing the number and the diversity of highly skilled technicians ready for employment. The Resource Center provides curriculum resources for materials technology program enhancement and improvement at community and technical colleges nationwide. MatEd has also developed and published core competencies needed by today's technicians in the handling of materials which were developed and validated on a national level. The core competencies and complete report can be found at the MatEd website.


5E
Mid-Pacific ICT Center
50 Phelen Ave. Box S107
San Francisco, CA 94112
www.mpict.org

In the information and knowledge economies of the 21st century, we all increasingly depend on information and communications technologies - and the increased connectivity and productivity they enable. Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is an umbrella term, widely used in the rest of the world and the United Nations, to encompass all rapidly emerging, evolving and converging computer, software, networking, telecommunications, Internet, programming and information systems technologies. To enhance education initiatives in this field, the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program has awarded a $3 million grant over 4 years to establish the Mid-Pacific ICT (MPICT) Center, at City College of San Francisco. MPICT’s mission is to coordinate, improve and promote the quality of ICT education, with an emphasis on 2-year colleges, in northern California, northern Nevada, southern Oregon, Hawaii and the Pacific Territories.


23E
National Center for Manufacturing Education
(NCME)
444W. Third Street
Dayton, OH 45402
www.ncmeresource.org

In its second decade, the NCME continues to provide a variety of products and services for manufacturing and engineering technology educators.


40N
National Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge
(NACK)
101 Innovation Boulevard, Suite 112
University Park, PA 16865
www.nano4me.org

Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) was established as a National Center at Penn State College of Engineering in September 2008 through the NSF-ATE program. As more industries use micro- and nanotechnology, demand for workers with these skills is increasing dramatically. A 2007 survey conducted in partnership with the National Association of Manufacturers found that the number of U.S. manufacturers using nanotechnology will quadruple within seven years. The NACK Center has been established to help meet this need.


15E
National Center for Optics and Photonics Education
(OP-TEC)
324B Kelly Drive
Waco, TX 76710
www.op-tec.org

OP-TEC, an NSF/ATE National Center, is working with secondary, postsecondary and industry partners to increase and sustain our nation's capacity to produce photonics technicians.


17E
National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence
(GeoTech Center)
Del Mar College
101 Baldwin Boulevard
Corpus Christi, TX 78404
www.geotechcenter.org

The National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence provides resources for geospatial educators, students, and industry.


19E
National Instruments
11500 N. MoPac Expressway
Austin, TX 78759
www.ni.com/academic

National Instruments provides powerful software and modular hardware to enhance education and advance research, whether teaching control design concepts or pioneering research in wireless communications.


28E
NIDA Corporation
300 S. John Rodes. Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32904
www.nida.com

Nida Corporation has been in the technical training business for 37 years. We concentrate specifically on the training of electronics technicians. Nida offers over three thousand hours of computer-based curriculum, nearly all of which is performance based. Besides our core electronics programs, our product line includes additional training in areas such as telecommunications, industrial controls, engineering technology, microprocessors, automotive and avionics.


30E
Oxygen Education
7820 Innovation Blvd., Suite 250
Indianapolis, IN 46278
www.o2ed.com

Oxygen Education is reinventing workforce education by delivering award winning, on-demand technical education that ensures student competency in the lease amount of time. Serving colleges, workforce development agencies and Fortune 100 companies on five continents, Oxygen Education knows how to rapidly educate the 21st Century Workforce.


45N
Pace University/NACTEL
1 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10606
http://csis.pace.edu/nactel

The Pace University/NACTEL program is designed for people who are interested in becoming Network Technicians with the skills and knowledge needed to compete for technical positions in the telecommunications industry.


55N
Silver Dream
7133 N. 14th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85020
www.silverdream.biz

Southwestern and contemporary silver jewelry.


22E
Simtronics Corporation
PO Box 38
Little Silver, NJ 07739
www.simtronics.com

Simtronics Corporation provides state of the art PC based operator training simulators to both industry and education. We offer over 40 Standard Process Models to suit the needs of multiple process industries at all levels of experience.


16E
Southwest Center for Microsystems Education
(SCME)
800 Bradbury Dr. SE, Suite 235
Albuquerque, NM 87106
www.scme-nm.org

SCME increases the region's educational capacity to produce technicians skilled in research, design, and commercialization, while improving the general public's awareness of the microsystems industry.


27E
SpaceTEC
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
www.SpaceTEC.org

SpaceTEC is the National Center of Excellence for Aerospace Technical Education. SpaceTEC serves as a focal point for aerospace technical education and is the certifying body for the Certified Aerospace Technician program.


44N
Technology & Innovation in Manufacturing & Engineering
(TIME Center)
Community College of Baltimore County
800 South Rolling Road
Baltimore, MD 21228
www.time-center.org

The TIME Center partners collaborate with industry and educational stakeholders to increase the numbers and improve the technical skills of manufacturing and engineering technicians.


24E
The Science Source
299 Atlanta Highway
Waldoboro, ME 04572
www.thesciencesource.com

The VPAL-A is an integrated and expandable vacuum teaching system that is intended primarily for technical college and undergraduate use. This system can be used to provide a sound understanding of vacuum physics as well as to demonstrate practical applications of vacuum in industry.


52N
Weld-Ed/Lorain County Community College
1005 North Abbe Road
Elyria, OH 44035
www.weld-ed.org

The National Center for Welding Education and Training ( Weld-Ed) is a dynamic partnership between business and industry, community and technical colleges, universities, the American Welding Society and government. Its mission is to improve the quality and availability of welding technicians in the U.S. To accomplish the mission the Center’s staff and partners work collaboratively on the development of new and improved curricula as well as providing continuing education opportunities for welding instructors.



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