The Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center

The National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) was established by Congress and funded by NASA to strengthen American industry by providing access to more than $60 billion worth of federally funded research. By helping American companies use federal technologies, NTTC helps companies manufacture new products, create jobs and foster partnerships between federal laboratories, the private sector, universities, innovators and economic development organizations. From that mission, NTTC has grown to become a full service technology commercialization service. In addition to providing access to federal technology information, NTTC provides: business planning expertise; technology commercialization training; technology management training; technology assessment services that help guide industries in making key decisions regarding patent, licensing and other commercialization issues; and help in finding technology development partners. The president of the NTTC is Joseph P. Allen.

For more information, visit the NTTC web site at www.nttc.edu.

The Erma Ora Byrd Center for Educational Technologies

The mission of the Center for Educational Technologies (CET) is to enhance lifelong learning and teaching through the effective use of technology. CET is involved in developing multimedia and Internet-based curriculum supplements; providing professional development for teachers, administrators, college faculty and corporate personnel; conducting research on the learning sciences, the application of theory into practice and the use of technology tools in learning; and consulting on various aspects of technology implementation.

The CET facility is a technologically-rich educational environment having multimedia-equipped classrooms, presentation rooms, science experimentation and conference facilities; integrated computer, video and audio local area networks; videoconferencing, satellite broadcasting and other distance-learning technologies; video production and editing capabilities; Internet, WWW capabilities, including streaming video to the Internet; software development capabilities; desktop publishing, graphics and animation production capabilities; and multimedia presentation developing capabilities. The CET is home to the NASA Classroom of the Future program, a NASA Educator Resource Center, the NASA Office of Space Science Broker Facilitator Program, the U.S. Department of Education-Funded U.S. Constitution and InSTEP projects and the Challenger Learning Center.

For more information, visit the CET website at www.cet.edu and contact the main office for student opportunities.