ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION ·
FEBRUARY 2011
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AACC is pleased to announce a national call for applications for the MentorLinks: Advancing Technological Education program, developed with the support of the National Science Foundation. AACC seeks applications from two-year college experts who are interested in serving as mentors to work with a college whose faculty and administration want to develop or strengthen a certificate or degree program for technicians in a science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics field. MentorLinks colleges will be selected in a separate request for proposal process and assigned to a mentor. Up to ten institutions will be selected as MentorLinks colleges and up to ten individual mentors will be named to the MentorLinks Mentor Team for a two-year grant period beginning October 1, 2011. Mentors will receive an honorarium and travel support to attend a mentor training and orientation meeting, national project meetings, and to conduct college site visits. Applications and further information can be found at http://www.aacc.nche.edu/mentorlinks. The deadline to apply is March 8, 2011.
Here is a sample of the valuable resources in ATE Central that focus on Viticulture:
From the Viticulture and Enology Science and Technology Alliance (VESTA):
This site, from the Viticulture and Enology Science and Technology Alliance, offers presentations and slides from the lectures of VIN 113: Winter Viticulture Technology. From the presenter, Katie Gill, the lectures cover such topics as pruning and winter grapevine anatomy. Each topic includes a multimedia presentation of the lecture, with slides. Users must have Microsoft's Silverlight installed to view the presentations, which vary in length from about 2 minutes to 7 minutes.
This site, from the Viticulture and Enology Science and Technology Alliance, offers presentations and slides from the lectures of VIN 274: Wines of the World. From the presenter, Ray Johnson, the lectures feature wines and wine characteristics from around the globe. Each topic includes a multimedia presentation of the lecture, with slides. Users must have Microsoft's Silverlight installed to view the presentations, which vary in length from about 5 minutes to 25 minutes.
From the Department of Applied Economics and Management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, and written by Mark E. Pisoni and Gerald B. White, this example business plan is "directed toward helping vintners and prospective investors to develop a business plan for a premium winery." The business plan, which is published here courtesy of the official site of the Maryland wine/grape industry, is divided into eight sections: an executive summary, business description, plan of operations, management team, industry analysis, competitor analysis, marketing plan, and financial plan. The document itself is 49 pages long, with the last 20 pages devoted to appendices. It's a very helpful document for practicing vintners and viticulture/enology students to understand the processes involved in creating one's own winery.
ATEEC is looking for environmental and energy specialists to vet (review) materials for the electronic Environmental and Energy Resources Library. If you are interested in participating please contact Lora at [email protected].
CWIS is open source software, created with NSF funding, that can help your project or center showcase resources online. It's free and very easy to use — click here to check out a few of the sites running CWIS. We'd be happy to provide you with more information about CWIS and give you a quick tour of its features — please e-mail [email protected] to get started!
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