JITTEIS featured in multi-agency chemical disaster exercise

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Worker Education and Training Program, in collaboration with the Interstate Chemical Terrorism Workgroup, held its Spring workshop "Local, State and Federal Partnerships for Chemical Preparedness and Response " in Cincinnati, OH. Also participating were the FBI, the EPA Office of Emergency Management, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the emergency response and health departments of several metropolitan areas including Cincinnati and NYC. On the morning of May 1, these agencies conducted a joint training exercise involving a simulated industrial explosion releasing 30,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia in downtown Cincinnati.

NIEHS used BanDeMar Network's Just-In-Time Training for Emergency Incidents System (JITTEIS) to broadcast incident alerts, safety training courses, site coordination instructions, and live on-the-scene photographs in the form of multimedia to the cell phones of exercise participants. A total of 348 multimedia clips were transmitted during the exercise, and all were received by participants within seconds of transmission even when they were in poor signal strength areas that could not support voice calls. This exercise demonstrated the resilience and interoperability of JITTEIS, which works with all mobile devices regardless of model, service provider, subscription plan, or issuing agency.

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BanDeMar Networks and Schmitt & Associates spin off Cell Podium

With the success of JITTEIS and its broad commercial potential, BanDeMar Networks has teamed up with the distance learning company Schmitt & Associates to form Cell Podium. This new joint spin-off will focus as a service provider for training and outreach via cell phones.

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BanDeMar Networks receives grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

BanDeMar received a grant from President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to promote job growth and career training. The award, issued by NIEHS, is directed at the deployment of JITTEIS and is a supplement to the work being performed by BanDeMar Networks for the NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program.

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BanDeMar Networks presents to NIEHS Director Linda Birnbaum

BanDeMar presented an update on its mobile outreach at a Town Hall held for Dr. Birnbaum by the UMDNJ School of Public Health at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick . Titled "Mobile Multimedia for Health Social Networking, Community Outreach, and Emergency Training" the presentation illustrates social behaviors of m-learning not possible with conventional e-learning. BanDeMar also presented its plans for job growth under the NIEHS ARRA supplement.

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Global Microscope interfaced with NASA Earth Science datasets

As part of BanDeMar's effort to promote Earth Science education, NJIT interns Vikrant Mistry, Katerina Stojanovska, and Ken Mosca implemented an automated real-time interface between the Global Microscope and the NASA Earth Observations (NEO) portal. NASA's Kevin Ward, who operates NEO and assisted in the interface, Nancy Butnick, Director of Learning Programs at the Liberty Science Center, and Deepa Shah, administrator of the Global Microscope, attended the inauguration of this new functionality.

Cesar Bandera, Katerina Stojanovska, Vikrant Mistry, Kevin Ward, Deepa Shah, Nancy Butnick

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October 7, 2009

Global Microscope selected by NASA for K-12 Science Education

Liberty Science Center and BanDeMar have been selected by NASA to promote science education among K-12 students using the Global Microscope and NASA Earth Observation datasets. In total, NASA selected only 13 projects out of 111 proposed by educational institutions around the country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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