BanDeMar and Cerritos College join forces to create a novel interactive distance learning training and assessment system with the objective of teaching and improving the skills and updating the knowledge of the manufacturing workforce using intelligent written, graphical and "hands-on" instructional and evaluative techniques. The proposed online workforce education system will use live and archived video and audio, numerical and 2-D graphical data, 3-D models, and 2-D and 3-D animations for interactively training and assessing workforce employees with the objective of improving workplace manufacturing skills.

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Liberty Science Center and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center team up with BanDeMar to increase awareness and interest in the relationship between localized environmental factors (including manmade consequences) with long-term global environmental dynamics.  This outreach education program, called the Global Microscope, presents live high-definition hyperspectral satellite data on interactive video projection spheres that preserve the perceptual link between local and global phenomenology as the observer varies the Global Microscope’s spatial and temporal scale of view.  Road show and exhibit curriculum builds upon the aesthetic beauty of global imagery and interest in the environmental day-to-day status of one’s region (e.g., weather, gardening factors, pollution, and development), and achieves an awareness of causal links between the two.

BanDeMar teams up with Bam Programs (http://www.bamprograms.org) and Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to create engaging Internet multimedia training programs for underserved and underprivileged Los Angeles county children

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BanDeMar is securing R&D funding and managing a project with OPAP Inc. and the Rutgers Center for Advanced Information Processing to develop ergonomic low-cost devices that treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea with greater long-term compliance than current commercially available devices.

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UniCamp and BanDeMar Networks Develop Mobile Computer Labs for underprivileged children in southern California by promoting technology awareness. The mobile computer lab with workstations and a satellite linkup is for portable or stationary use by underprivileged children attending the various camps, offering computer training and Internet access services.  The youth-based project will engage middle through high school children to learn and apply diverse Internet technologies in a camp setting.  Students will design and implement publicly accessible web sites on favorite local celebrities. The difficulty of student projects will be commensurate with the student’s knowledge of information technology (IT), and will span the range from authoring a simple static web page all the way to streaming interactive multimedia and network security.  Raising technology awareness through initiatives like Computer Labs is one way to bridge the digital divide in communities that lack funding, local facilities, or  Internet connectivity.

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