Events/Multimedia
New Business Incubator Launched in Montana
Big Sky Economic Development Authority of Billings, Montana, has
launched the Montana Incubator for NASA Technology (MINT). James
F. Ouldhouse is appointed to manage the organization's planning
and services. The NASA-sponsored incubator is focused on fostering
the start-up and growth of technology-based businesses through the
commercialization of NASA and related technology. MINT, an "incubator
without walls," is teamed with the NASA-Montana State University
TechLink Center and will leverage existing business assistance services
of the Big Sky Economic Development Authority to provide business
development and technology/capital sourcing services for selected
clients.
For more information, contact James Ouldhouse at 222 North 32nd
Street, Billings, Montana, 59101-1911. Call: 406/256.6871, Fax:
406/256.6877, E-mail: ouldhouse@bigskyeda.org
Classroom of the Future's BioBLAST® Available
BioBLAST® (Better Learning Through Adventure, Simulations and
Telecommunications) is now available as a multimedia curriculum
supplement for high school biology classes to encourage students
to conduct real scientific research in an interactive adventure/simulation
framework. Hands-on laboratory investigations, computer simulations
and Internet-based tools and telecommunications resources may be
accessed via the BioBLAST virtual reality interface, which depicts
a futuristic, moon-based research outpost. Incorporating data from
NASA's Advanced Life Support Research program, BioBLAST draws students
into a futuristic, problem-solving scenario in which teams of students
use simulation models to develop and test their own designs for
a bioregenerative system to support human life outside the safety
of Earth's atmosphere. Produced and developed by NASA's Classroom
of the Future (COTF), this project was jointly funded by NASA's
Educational Technology program and the Life Sciences Division of
NASA's Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications.
For more information or to order BioBLAST, contact the COTF. Call:
304/243-4416 or E-mail: getBioBLAST@cet.edu, or go to its
web site at http://www.cotf.edu/BioBLAST/
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