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  November 2006
Region 2000 Technology Council Newsletter
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Dear Jonathan,

Thanks to all the sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and attendees of Future Focus EXPO '06! Over 1000 people attended the event at Liberty University on October 26 making this year's EXPO an overwhelming success. As a side note, we had attendees from 26 area high schools and colleges. We heard several exhibitors commenting on how surprised they were to see so many students looking for career opportunities. Thanks again to everyone, we're planning next year's EXPO already.
 
Volunteers Needed

We need volunteers to help with the November 18 regional Lego League robotics competition. We will be hosting approximately 16 teams of 8-10 students (ages 9-14) at Sweet Briar College at this robotics competition.

This is an exciting and fun event but we need approximately 30 volunteers (training provided) to support it. Volunteers fall into one of three categories:

  • 12-15 Judges for the Projects
  • 6 Referees for the Robot competition
  • General logistics (registration, scheduling, announcers, etc.)
There is a Lego team at Dearington Elementary School that needs some adult mentors to help them. All the kids there are first timers. The team meets on Tuesdays from 3:00 – 5:00 PM. This could be a rotating group of folks if someone can’t come every week. There are five other schools in the area with teams that would welcome any help as well.

Lastly, we are always looking for industry folks willing to go into schools to talk about science and technology topics. We have several canned presentations but also develop new ones based on the requests from teachers.

If you can help, please contact the Tech Council office or Bob Bailey at CVCC. Bob can be reached at 832-7764, baileyr@cvcc.vccs.edu.

 
CIT Announces Seed Capital Program

On November 9, the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced the launch of a pilot program that will provide seed capital of up to $100,000 to promising early and growth stage technology businesses located in Southside and Southwest Virginia.

The new pilot program will be a regionally focused component of the CIT Growth Acceleration Program (GAP) family of funds that has funded 14 companies using $1.35 million in public investments, leveraging over $7 million in private equity.

Companies have until December 9 to apply for the Virginia South Technology Acceleration Pilot Program.

VA's 12th Annual SBIR Conference

Join the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) for Innovative Transitions 2006: Virginia’s 12th Annual SBIR Conference. At this advanced SBIR conference, hear representatives from the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) SBIR programs, DoD customers, major prime contractors, federal and private venture funds, and other key players in the SBIR program as they discuss important issues related to transitioning and commercializing SBIR technology.

The luncheon keynote address presented by Carol Van Wyk – Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense – focuses on Maximizing the Value of the 2007 National SBIR Commercialization Conference and an Overview of DOD’s new Commercialization Pilot Program.