Tri-Cities Tech Business Update

May 2010 Issue

• Small Business Awards nominees announced
  Local technology-based businesses Harms Engineering, Inc., based in Pasco, Wash., and Richland Industrial, Inc., based in Richland, Wash. more...
• Energy Solutions scholarships awarded
  Students from ten Columbia Basin-area high schools have received scholarships from the Energy Solutions Foundation. more...
• New staff at Dade Moeller
  Richland, Wash.-based Dade Moeller & Associates, Inc. welcomes a new senior safety and health services professional to its staff. more...
• New staff at Meier Architecture Engineering
  Meier Architecture Engineering, based in Kennewick, Wash., welcomes a new civil project engineer to its staff. more...

• Cleantech Open competition accepting submissions
  The 2010 Cleantech Open competition for clean technology startup businesses is underway. The Cleantech Open is the world's largest clean technology competition. more...
• Economic development grand funding available
  The Hanford Area Economic Investment Fund Committee is accepting applications for a new grant opportunity. more...
• Refresh '10
  Nominations are being accepted for the annual Refresh website redesign competition, and a second category has been added this year for online training. more...
• Resources online
  1) The column "Cleantech competition's prize helps startup firms" was published in the Tri-City Herald on March 27. more...

• Cleantech Open webinar
  MAY 4. A webinar to help businesses develop their submissions for the Cleantech Open competition will be held on May 4. more...
• Workplace relationships seminar
  MAY 4. The Columbia Basin Chapter of the American Society for Quality's May meeting will feature speaker Rick Martinez, founder of Peak Performance Systems in Richland, Wash. more...
• Small Business Awards banquet
  MAY 4. The Three Rivers Alliance of Chambers will hold the 2010 Small Business Awards banquet at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Wash., on May 4. more...
• 2010 State of Technology Luncheon
  MAY 17. REGISTER ONLINE BY MAY 16 FOR DISCOUNTED RATE. The Technology Alliance is holding its annual State of Technology Luncheon in Seattle in May. more...
• Three Rivers Entrepreneur Network meeting
  MAY 18. REGISTER BY MAY 14. The Three Rivers Entrepreneur Network will hold its May seminar "Where angels dare to fly-angel investing today" on March 18 beginning at 7:15 am at the Richland Community Center in Richland, Wash. more...

• Global warming triggers CO2 release from soil
  Twenty years of field studies reveal that as the Earth has gotten warmer, plants and microbes in the soil have given off more carbon dioxide. more...
• PNNL licenses "smart charger" to car maker
  California car maker, ZAP, plans to use the Smart Charger Controller technology developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in its charging stations internationally. more...
• PNNL scientist honored with medal
  A scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been honored by the American Association of Engineering Societies with the John Fritz Medal. more...

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Tri-Cities Tech Business Update is published by the Economic Development Office at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Each month, we send you an e-mail message, giving you the link of news, tips, awards, upcoming events, and other information about local technology-based businesses and organizations that support them. With business and community partners, our goal is to build and diversify the Tri-Cities economy—adding skilled jobs in primary-sector industries that bring in outside dollars. Currently, more than 1,100 tech-related businesses, investors, and economic development stakeholders subscribe to the newsletter, mostly in the Mid-Columbia area and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. This newsletter (RL-P00-009) supports PNSO's vision for the future of the Hanford Site and surrounding area through the creation of research opportunities, new industries, and new business clusters.