The Chamber of Business & Industry of Centre County recently announced the formation of a Business and Industry Partnership (BIP), which will help educate local businesses about resources and information available to them right here in Centre County.
The goal of BIP is to ensure that all businesses in the county have awareness of and access to services that are critical for growth and to remain competitive.
Showcasing Leaders of Sustainable Energy Development
In an effort to encourage new technology and business models that lead to sustainable energy solutions, Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF) and joint sponsor West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund (WPPSEF) have created a competition open to all Pennsylvania residents, businesses, and communities.
The competition seeks to showcase businesses and communities who are leaders of sustainable energy development in Pennsylvania. SEF aims to educate businesses and the public about practices that lead to more sustainable energy use.
Read more: Energy Sprout Competition to Spark Energy Solutions
Incomplete skeletons of drones once-flown dot the shelves alongside parts of others inside Airnest’s second-floor office at the Innovation Park Technology Center.
They’re odes to the past. The promising three-man start-up company initially built its own drones to test software which is now Airnest’s primary focus — Ben Brautigam, Justin Miller, and Sherwyn Saul want to make it easier for anyone to fly a drone.
“So we had this idea—what if to control a drone, you just drew on a map and where you drew the drone would fly?” Brautigam says.
Done. Airnest recently released its first app that is quite user-friendly for inexperienced fliers. Apply a few flight parameters into your device, draw your flight path, and the drone is on its way, relaying its perspective to you on the ground. Tilt or pan the device as you would 400 feet in the air for an eye-in-the-sky view.
BY BENJAMIN HALL, FOUNDER OF L4IS
Ben is the Founder of Lasers for Innovation Solutions (L4IS). The company that uses lasers to create digitized, 3D models from physical samples. They offer Laser Micro-Processing services & capabilities and Laser Ablation Tomography services.
It seems, based on my experience trying to get the startup off the ground, that putting yourself in a supportive environment is extremely important.
Rett Syndrome, a severe form of autism that occurs almost exclusively in girls, affects an estimated 1 in 8,500 females. Though rare, the debilitating disease causes severe problems with language and communication, learning, coordination, and other brain functions.
According to the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Penn State researcher, Gong Chen and his team have discovered a “novel drug target and have rescued functional deficits in human nerve cells derived from patients with Rett Syndrome, a severe form of autism-spectrum disorder.”
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Read more: Penn State Researchers Uncover Potential Treatment for Rett Syndrome