The 31st annual Transcomp Exhibition is a premier trade show for freight transportation professionals. Sales displays will be located in the George R. Brown Convention Center. This event will provide networking opportunities, superior educational sessions, and the chance to meet with the largest association of shippers in the United States.

As Intermodal Expo is one of the largest freight transportation events in North America and Houston is one of the busiest transportation hubs in the country, the 2013 Intermodal Expo will provide opportunities to learn about new products and expand businesses. Carriers, 3PLs, shippers, terminal operators, port authorities and industry suppliers will come together to:

- Network with customers and business associates
- Attend educational sessions on the latest industry issues and challenges
- Visit the exhibits that showcase the newest transportation products and services

FABTECH 2013 returns to Chicago for a metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event. FABTECH provides a ‘one stop shop’ venue where attendees can meet with world-class suppliers, see the latest industry products and developments, and find the tools to improve productivity, increase profits and discover new solutions to metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing needs.

Help your business use additive manufacturing technologies or “3D printing� to increase efficiency and profitability. Join us for this special one-day summit to gain insights on current and mainstream application of additive manufacturing technologies. Minnesota is home to many of the businesses leading the way internationally in additive manufacturing technologies, but these tools can be put to use by businesses of any scale.

This webinar is intended for evaluators who are launching new evaluations or seeking to strengthen the overall design of ongoing studies. We’ll address how to formulate good questions to establish a strong foundation for an evaluation and hone in on appropriate data collection methods and sources that align with those questions. We’ll provide practical guidance for transforming data into meaningful conclusions about a project’s progress, quality, and impact. Finally, we will share strategies and tools for generating practical, actionable recommendations for project improvement based on evidence. Participants will learn to purposefully connect these distinct aspects of an evaluation into a cohesive package that adds value to projects.

Presented by: Walter Clore Wine & Culinary Center, in partnership with Wine Yakima Valley and Yakima Valley Community College.

Join us as we reflect on our journey to become the first AVA in Washington and sample wines that make Yakima valley exceptional.

Guest Speakers:
Kerry Shields, Winemaker, Cote Bonneville
Dr. Wade Wolfe, Winemaker, Thurston Wolfe
JJ Compeau, General Manager, Kestrel Vintners
Kay Simon, Winemaker, Chinook Wines

Cost is $35 per person and participants must be 21 or older to attend.

Designed to introduce college staff and administrators to ACE, participants will gain an overall understanding of ACE’s approach to education through experiential learning. This workshop’s focus is on the non-cognitive/affective domain and various ACE models. Participants will leave with the ability to replicate ACE activities in their own classrooms. Through a facilitated “next steps� exercise, teams will gain insight on how ACE may be introduced to their college.

Registration fee of $150 includes materials, and lunch, coffee, tea and snacks throughout the day.

The Dream !t Do !t Northern Minnesota VEX Robotics Tournament is part of a series of VEX Robotics competitions taking place internationally throughout the year, and offers teams an opportunity to apply their STEM skills while developing their teamwork, leadership, and project management skills. This is one of three VEX tournaments in Minnesota. At each tournament, the Excellence Award Winner will receive an invitation to the World Championships.

This workshop covers topics related to polycrystalline and monocrystalline materials and the importance of crystal structures for the fabrication of micro-sized structures. Topics include the type of crystals, crystal planes and the Miller Index, and crystal planes and micro-fabrication. In the workshop activities participates become proficient in denoting different crystal planes and vectors using Miller Index notation, construct a paper-based crystal, and determine the crystal orientation of different silicon wafers. The SCME Crystallography kit is used to support these activities.

Teachers of students in grades 6-12 are invited to register their classes to participate in Robotics, Engineering and Technology (RET) Days at Macomb Community College, with half-day sessions scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 3 - Thursday, Dec. 5. Limited travel reimbursement may be available.

At RET Days, students will learn how the current and projected demand for scientists and engineers means job opportunities for them in the future if they opt for college degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Math—increasingly known as STEM and viewed by experts as the “it� careers of the 21st century. This is accomplished by participating in group sessions, learning about robotic systems, speaking with experts in the field, and participating in hands-on activities.

When: December 3-4, 2013 December 2, 2013 -- The main conference begins at 10AM on Dec 3rd and ends at 1:30PM on Dec 4th. Lunch is included both days; breakfast on the 4th.

Who: K-12, adult and community college CTE and academic educators, administrators, deans, faculty, counselors, program coordinators, and student service coordinators; business partners; NGO directors/staff, ESL Practitioners, DSPS educators,Title I educators, etc.

Why: Improve Your Perkins Core Indicators, Better Serve Your Students, Improve Your CTE Programs, Network, Participate in Legislatively Mandated Professional Development, and Share Your Knowledge

Cost: $200 for the first registrant, $150 for the second and the third person is FREE. (Discount applies for members of the same team). Pre-conference is $25 per person.

This webinar is intended to familiarize anyone interested in the water management field, with the report that resulted from ATEEC’s “Defining Water Management� forum. Some of the information that will be covered includes:

• Defined the current field as it applies to technicians (two-year college degree or certificate level)
• Further define the field by sorting it into general occupational categories for technicians
• Identified specific technician-level occupational titles and job functions within each of those categories
• Developed a projection of future trends in the field

ACTE's CareerTech VISION 2013 is designed to be an integral component of overall professional development goals. VISION 2013 has been created to meet individual professional growth needs and to align with institutional strategic improvement plans. This December, experience an even greater event and accomplish more by taking full advantage of a wide range of institutional partnerships, powerful business and industry connections and specialized sessions.

-Visit more than 200 companies exhibiting the latest products and technologies
-Interact with the latest innovations in education
-Start powerful business and industry connections
-Integrate the past and the future by using what you learn to positively impact your students' success
-Optimize your learning experience to become a CTE leader in your organization
-Network with more than 4000 of your colleagues and today's CTE leaders

The Mid-Atlantic User Conference is committed to helping any GIS user from Pennsylvania; New Jersey; West Virginia; Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Maryland; Delaware; and the nearby areas, explore the best use of GIS technologies. Bring your colleagues and meet with your peers and Esri staff in a convenient and interactive learning environment.

This half-day workshop for faculty and graduate assistants will provide opportunities to learn techniques for using active learning and immersing students in their learning.

An important strategy for improving student engagement and understanding of complex, controversial or misunderstood topics is to use active learning methods. Participants will have hands-on time using various tactics, will generate their won ideas for implementation, and will emerge with a set of resources that they can apply to their own classroom.

Admission for this event costs $25.00 per ticket.

The theme of this year's annual Virginia Community College Systems (VCCS) Hire Education Conference at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia will is We Mean Business! The conference explores how community colleges and industry partners in the workforce system are meeting the needs of the business and economic development communities, creating partnerships, developing innovative education and training programs and using new technology to help job seekers connect with employers and provide employers the skilled workforce they need.

Keynote Speaker is Shawn Boyer, founder and Chairman of the Board of Snagajob, the nation's largest hourly employment network. Cost is $150.

Join us for the webinar to learn about SciGirls, award-winning DVDs and educational activities that feature real girls and will energize your science, technology and engineering classes. The NEW Season 2 Collection has just been released, drawing oncutting-edge research about what engages girls in STEM learning and careers.

SciGirls features groups of real girls doing their own science investigations and engineering projects, such as building an underwater robot, investigating a crime science using forensics, studying dolphins, engineering a giant mechanical puppet, digging for archaeological secrets of extinct Native American cultures and creating high-tech fashions.

In this webinar, you will:

• Learn about differences in female and male learning styles, and how this impacts your classrooms
• Hear the proven strategies for engaging girls in STEM
• Get tips to apply SciGirls Seven principles in your classes.

This two-day workshop will instruct academic institutions/faculty on the procedures and processes for implementing a virtualized lab solution using NDG NETLAB+ and VMware vSphere. Virtualized labs enable organizations to host real IT equipment, virtual machines, and lab content on the Internet to support IT training. Generally, these labs include all the software needed to provide an environment through which students may schedule and complete lab exercises for Information Technology courses. Participants of this workshop will be performing a "from the ground up" build of the learning environment, to include both physical and software installations. Participants should be familiar with Cisco, VMware, and Microsoft Technologies before attending the workshop.

Join Yakima Valley Community College for a fast paced two hour workshop to learn practical reasons why sparkling wines and champagnes taste the way they do, cost what they cost and why you should be drinking them every week.

Cost is $25. Must be 21 to attend.

The Dream !t Do !t Southern Minnesota VEX Robotics Tournament is part of a series of VEX Robotics competitions taking place internationally throughout the year, and offers teams an opportunity to apply their STEM skills while developing their teamwork, leadership, and project management skills. This is one of three VEX tournaments in Minnesota. At each tournament, the Excellence Award Winner will receive an invitation to the World Championships.

Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute offers cutting-edge, cost-effect professional development opportunities to current high school and community college faculty that is often only available through expensive commercial training. Working Connections makes the newest technologies and industry trends available to attendees, as well as encourages the kind of networking and collaboration among educational and business leaders that can strengthen any IT educational program.

Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute offers cutting-edge, cost-effect professional development opportunities to current community college IT/convergence faculty that is often only available through expensive commercial training. Working Connections makes the newest technologies and industry trends available to attendees, as well as encourages the kind of networking and collaboration among educational and business leaders that can strengthen any IT educational program.

Working Connections training workshops offer several tracks that cover a range of the most in-demand topics in IT. The goal of Working Connections is to provide attendees with the expertise needed to teach their respective track in a subsequent semester, bringing the most current information to their classrooms either as a stand-alone course or as supplemental information to an existing course.

A Russian government Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will deploy the Express AM5 civil communications satellite for the Russian Satellite Communications Co.

The CNS-ASU Winter School is designed to give participants an introduction to and practical experience with the methods and theory employed by CNS-ASU faculty and associates. The curricular content and activities are designed around our four Real-Time Technology Assessments (RTTA) and two Thematic Research Clusters (TRC).

Students will be expected to give an informal presentation at the end of the week, discussing how these methods and tools could inform or otherwise be applicable to their own work.

Your college may purchase individual tickets to send participants to any of the FELIs listed below. The standard rate is $2200/person, or $440 per day. All FELIs offer an Early Bird discount of $250, or $2000/person, if registrations are made and payment arranged by the Early Bird Date for the event. We recommend that a group of faculty and administrators from your college attend a FELI together to obtain the maximum benefit for your school. The ACE Experiential Learning Institute (FELI) is five-day professional development experience designed for community college faculty, staff, and administrators. The FELI is an experiential workshop involving more than fifty exercises and activities. These activities include but are not limited to large group discussion, small group sharing and presentations, movement activities, role-playing and reflection. ACE structures the activities to create a community of learners, and asks that all attendees be prepared to participate fully as active learners. We use many different pedagogical techniques to allow for learning and growth in unexpected ways, as well as, to keep participants fully engaged throughout the day. We ask that participants attend each day in full as each exercise builds on the previous one and rapport is built within the group as the days unfold. Each FELI group is capped at 25 participants to ensure time for each participant to be heard.

The FELI workshop challenges participants in many ways:

• You will be asked to closely examine reality versus your perceptions in the areas of working styles, listening abilities and communications techniques.
• You will experience the difference between outside-in learning and inside-out learning.
• You will be asked to practice authentic communication and understand the value of self-awareness and self-disclosure as vehicles for the transformation of education.

The conference will feature excellent presentations from representatives of ICT industry and education. Let’s gather and share quality ICT education information, resources and practices, improve ICT education, prepare people for good ICT jobs and help improve the economy!

U.S. community college educators in ICT-related programs are invited to attend this event free, and to submit a presentation proposal for quality ICT educational practices or stories. Qualified faculty in the MPICT region may be eligible to receive a stipend or partial expense reimbursement.

Teachers will learn how using turbines in the classroom can enhance what they are currently doing in class. Topics to include: Proper wind turbine placement, The Math of Wind, Basic Electrical Circuits, Basic Gearing and Pulleys, and Construction and testing of a turbine. Each Participant will leave the class with a professional Development certificate and a basic turbine.