NCPN Conference 2009
Virtual Trade Show
Please visit our 2009 NCPN Exhibitors in the Exhibit Hall in the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Exhibits are open on Thursday, October 1, 9:00 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. and 3:45 – 6:00 p.m., and on Friday, October 2, 7:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. Booth numbers are listed above each company name.
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American Education
7506 N. Broadway Extension
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
405-840-6031
www.advancerlearning.com
American Education's A+dvancer College Readiness Online™ is closing the college readiness gap and is aligned to the most recognized college placement exams, ACCUPLACER® and COMPASS ™
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Applied Technologies
366 Switch Road S.W.
Calhoun, GA 30701
800-334-4943
www.applied-technologies.com
Applied Technologies offers Career Connections (supporting the States’ Career Cluster Initiative), Health Science (Foundations and Career Skills), PACS (Pathways for Agriscience Careers), and Information Technology Certification.
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Army National Guard-Partners in Education
13 South Lakeshore Drive
Brookfield, CT 06804
203-313-9034
www.partnersineducation.com
The” Partners in Education” program connects schools, teachers and students with “FREE” National Guard presentation and resources. The program also includes a career mentor database.
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Army Recruiting
1307 Third Avenue, Building 1307
Fort Knox, KY 40121
502-626-0471
www.goarmy.com
The U.S. Army Recruiting Command will provide information on education and career opportunities available to young men and women. Highlighted will be March 2 Success, a no cost on-line test preparation, self paced course, which can improve an individual's performance on standardized tests by improving math, science, and English skills.
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ASVAB Career Exploration Program
2834 Green Bay Road
North Chicago, IL 60064
847-688-3680, X7508
www.asvabprogram.com
The ASVAB Career Exploration Program is a free program that assists students with career decisions. Students explore career information matching their interests, abilities, and preferences.
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Aztec Software
51 Commerce Street
Springfield, NJ 07081
973-258-0011
www.aztecsoftware.com
Aztec Software delivers specialized computer-based education and training solutions. Our mission is to help students gain control of their personal academic progress and career development, and prepare them to move forward in life with pride and success.
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Bridges Transitions/Xap Corporation
3534 Hyden Avenue
Culver City, CA 90232
310-842-9800
www.bridges.com
Bridges and Xap facilitate career and educational transitions through the nation's leading comprehensive online tools college/career planning, assessments, and post-secondary enrollment management solutions used by over 3 million students annually.
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Career Communications, Inc.
6701 W. 64th St., #210
Overland Park, KS 66202
913-362-7788
www.carcom.com
Career Communications, Inc. is an educational resource development and publishing company whose American Careers curriculum programs incorporate research based teaching strategies. Programs meet academic standards and comprehensive guidance and counseling goals. Contact us at 800/669-7795.
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Career Cruising
1867 Yonge Street, Suite 1002
Toronto, ON M4S 1Y5
800-965-8541
www.careercruising.com
Career Cruising is a user-friendly online career guidance system, including career assessment tools, comprehensive occupation and postsecondary information, portfolios and a course planner module that integrates with your student information system.
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Career Solutions Publishing
1199 Lancaster Avenue
Berwyn, PA 19312
888-299-2784
www.careersolutionspublishing.com
Career Solutions Publishing provides materials on Work Readiness, Workplace Ethics, Career/Academic Integration, and Personal Money Management. All products are easy to use and contain instructor's guides, practical applications, and motivating activities.
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CareerSafe Online
7607 Eastmark Drive
College Station, TX 77840
979-260-0030
www.careersafeonline.com
The CareerSafe® program is an online youth-to-youth (Y2Y) focused safety program, which educates youth on OSHA standards and regulations, while providing them with a chance to receive an OSHA 10-Hour General Industry or an OSHA 10-Hour Construction Industry "10-Hour Card".
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CORD
601 Lake Air Dr.
Waco, TX 76710
254-772-8756
www.cord.org
The Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD)—a national nonprofit organization—has been leading change in education for nearly 30 years through contextually focused curriculum design, faculty development programs, and Tech Prep and Career Pathways leadership. Visit with the CORD staff to learn more about our customized resources and technical assistance services for implementing career pathways/programs of study.
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CORD Communications, Inc.
601 Lake Air Drive
Waco, TX 76710
254-776-1822
www.cordcommunications.com
CORD Communications – Your source for contextual teaching math and science! Teach the way students learn best!
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DEPCO, LLC
PO Box 178
Pittsburg, KS 66762
620-231-0019
www.depcollc.com
DEPCO’s Interactive Career Labs allow students to identify specific career areas that are compatible with their individual capabilities while building a foundation of acquired and target-specific skills for today’s job market.
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EdITS Publishing
PO Box 7234
San Diego, CA 92167
800-416-1666
www.edits.net
EdITS has been the leader in career guidance and instructional material for over 40 years. EdITS features both the COPSystem career assessments which relate interests, abilities and values to occupations and CERES, which integrates career education throughout the curriculum. We are in the process of beta testing our online version of the COPS Interest Inventory, the CAPS ability battery, and the COPES values survey. In addition to our career guidance material we have various measures of personality, self-concept and study attitudes.
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Energy Concepts, Inc.
404 Washington Blvd.
Mundelein, IL 60060
847-837-8191
www.eci-info.com
ECI will feature its complete line of contextual training systems including "Principles of Technology", "Physics in Context," "Data Acquisition System," "Material Science Technology," "Principles of Engineering," and Applied Math.
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Georgia Bioscience Technology Institute
800 U.S. Hwy 29 North
Athens, GA 30601
706-355-5086
www.gabioscience.org
The Georgia Bioscience Technology Institute (GBTI) is a collaboration between the Bioscience Programs at Athens Technical College and Gwinnett Technical College to prepare workers for the exciting Life Science industry.
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Goodheart-Willcox Publisher
18604 West Creek Drive
Tinley Park, IL 60477
800-323-0440
www.g-w.com
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Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation
1899 Preston White Dr.
Reston, VA 20191
703-264-7200
www.gaerf.org
The Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation (GAERF®) advances knowledge and education in the field of graphic communications by supporting programs that prepare the workforce of the future.
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High School 101
P O Box 1408
Conyers, GA 30012
706-342-9189
www.chadfoster.com
21st Century Skills resources, Professional Development Opportunities, Project-based curricula used in 4,500 classrooms.
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JIST Publishing
875 Montreal Way
St. Paul, MN 55102
800-328-1452
www.jist.com
JIST Publishing is an authority on career and job search and offers practical, self-directed products and training tools for corrections, education, business, and counseling.
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Knowledge Matters, Inc.
85 Woodland Drive
Florence, MA 01062
413-587-9917
www.KnowledgeMatters.com
Come see Virtual Business, the leading family of business simulations, now in over 4000 schools nationwide. The series includes Personal Finance, Retailing, Sports and Management.
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KP Education Systems
3721 East Sunnyside Drive
Phoenix, AZ 85028
800-701-6323
www.kpculinary.com
The Sous Chef from KP Systems is a multimedia culinary training resource. System includes 335 videos, plus text, illustrations. Increase productivity, decrease waste and reinforce/enhance kitchen skills.
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Kuder, Inc.
302 Visions Parkway
Adel, IA 50003
800-314-8972
www.kuder.com
Kuder is the industry's leading provider of comprehensive, Internet-based educational and career planning tools for all ages. Kuder's innovative technology combines research-based assessments, portfolio development, educational and occupational exploration, and database management.
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Lab-Volt Systems
P.O. Box 686
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
732-938-2000
www.labvolt.com
Lab-Volt features comprehensive technical education, incorporating multimedia curriculum, e-learning, career exploration, and hands-on experimentation through our Tech-Design®, Family and Consumer Sciences, Tech-World® and STEMCART® programs.
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
University of Louisville, College of Education and Human Development
Louisville, KY 40292
703-683-9341
www.nrccte.org
NRCCTE is the primary agent for generating scientifically based knowledge, dissemination, professional development and technical assistance to improve career and technical education in the United States.
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NATPL
P.O. Box 730
Watertown, SD 57201
605-882-5284
www.natpl.org
The National Association for Tech Prep Leadership (NATPL) is a professional organization for individuals who are professionally engaged in Tech Prep leadership positions in all levels of education, business/industry, community organizations and government.
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NOCTI and The Whitener Group
500 North Bronson Avenue
Big Rapids, MI 49307
231-796-4695X20
www.nocti.org
With over four decades of experience designing and developing occupational competency assessments, NOCTI provides high-quality written and performance technical assessment products and services. These assessments serve as the vehicle for curricular and instructional improvement, professional development as well as student recognition at both the secondary and post-secondary levels.
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NSF ATE Centers
www.atecenters.org
The National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Centers ensure that our future technical workforce receives the education and tools to excel professionally to meet the needs of our ever-growing high-tech industries. For more information visit www.atecenters.org.
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Oklahoma CIMC
1500 West 7th Avenue
Stillwater, OK 74074
405-743-5590
www.okcimc.com
Competency-based instructional materials in all areas of CareerTech Education. Affordable end-of-program assessments that programs can use to meet Carl Perkins requirements for technical skills assessments.
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OP-TEC – National Center for Optics and Photonics Education
324B Kelly Drive
Waco, TX 76710
254-741-8338
www.op-tec.org
OP-TEC, a NSF/ATE Center, is working with secondary, postsecondary and industry partners to increase and sustain our nation's capacity to produce photonics technicians.
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OP-TEC- Optics and Photonics Education Resources
324B Kelly Drive
Waco, TX 76710
254-741-8338
www.op-tec.org
Visit this booth for information on secondary and postsecondary optics and photonics-related educational and professional societies.
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PAXTON/PATTERSON
7523 South Sayre Avenue
Chicago, IL 60638
630-803-0013
www.paxtonpatterson.com
Learning Systems for CTE which help students determine their interests and aptitudes so they can make informed decisions for their school to life transition. 12,000 tools, equipment and supplies.
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Pitsco Education
PO Box 1708
Pittsburg, KS 66762
620-231-0000
www.pitscoeducation.com
Pitsco Education's standards-based K-12 curricula promote student success through multimedia instruction and hands-on activities in core science, technology, engineering, and math courses.
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Pocket Nurse
200 First Street
Ambridge, PA 15003
412-630-2950
www.pocketnurse.com
Pocket Nurse® is a nurse owned and operated company that has been selling medical supplies and equipment to healthcare educators and simulation labs nationwide since 1992. Pocket Nurse® has over 5,000 products to assist educators teach all aspects of a healthcare curriculum or to fully equip a clinical simulation lab. At Pocket Nurse®, exceeding the expectations of our customers is our primary goal!
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SAVE Corporation
P. O. Box 278
Edgewater, FL 32132
800-888-6021
www.911simulators.com
SAVE Corporation is the provider of computer-based Emergency Dispatcher & Emergency Medical Dispatcher training simulators for Public Safety Training Programs. SAVE also provides the Phone Coach system for communication skill building programs.
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Scarf King
18 Meadow Lane
Roslyn Heights, NY 11577
646-232-6105
Scarf King sells 100% cashmere scarves from Scotland at ten dollars each! Over one hundred different solids and prints to choose from. Great holiday gift.
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STATco
4241 Wood Hi Road
Victoria, TX 77905
361-578-0389
www.catema.net
The CATEMA System is an online records management and reporting system enabling Career and Technology programs to manage student registration for articulated credit, advanced technical, and dual credit courses. The CATEMA System establishes a common link between secondary and post secondary education to maintain a "seamless transition" for student information.
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Stratasys Dimension 3D Printers
7665 Commerce Way
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
952-937-3000
www.stratasys.com
Stratasys manufactures additive fabrication systems using patented FDM® technology to produce real parts directly from 3D CAD files. Its Dimension® 3D printers are affordable, networked printers, which enable students to bring CAD files and design ideas to life in durable ABSplus plastic right from their desktop.
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The Silver Lady II
5339 Hickory Tree Lane
Cincinnati, Ohio 45242
513-793-8119
www.silverlady2.com
Beautiful silver jewelry.
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The Storybook Station, Inc.
PO Box 480
Washington, MI 48094
248-765-6156
www.storybookstationinc.com
Pre-K through sixth grade Pathway/Career Awareness curriculum materials. Using children's literature and our Teacher Guide, teachers introduce careers to students. Also great for high school Tech students working with children.
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TimeMAPS/REMTECH, Inc.
1500 First Avenue North, Suite R103
Birmingham, AL 35203
205-682-7900
www.timemaps.biz
In today's society, the importance of educating students about LIFE & MONEY is becoming more & more instrumental to helping ensure a successful future. The TimeMAPS Software Program & Curriculum teaches students about Life Planning, Interest, Careers, Taxes, Banks, Budgets, Credit & Debt, Saving & Investing, Autos, Homeownership, Insurance and Retirement. Stop for a Preview or an EVAL CD.
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Today’s Class
1 Perimeter Park South, Suite 450N
Birmingham, AL 35243
205-298-8322
www.todaysclass.com
Today's Class (TodaysClass.com) is a supplemental, interactive eLearning tool. Our web-based program offers engaging content and valuable instructor resources for Automotive, Health Science & Cosmetology.
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Venture Publications, Inc.
2710 Longwood Drive
Franklin, TN 37069
615-662-0236
www.venturepubs.com
Venture Publications, Inc. is the creator of Movin' On and On Track—career discovery magazines for 7th through 12th grades. They creatively present career pathways and college information with a Free Teacher Guide Lesson Plans.
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Vocational Research Institute
1845 Walnut Street, Suite 660
Philadelphia, PA 19103
800-874-5387
www.vri.org
VRI, a leader in the fields of career assessment and development for nearly 50 years, offers CareerScope®, the validated aptitude/interest assessment that objectively identifies the most relevant Career Clusters, Pathways, and Specialties for the evaluee. We are excited to announce the availability of CareerScope® Online, which delivers the assessment entirely via the Internet.
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VTECS
1866 Southern Lane
Decatur, GA 30033
404-679-4501
www.vtecs.org
Come to the VTECS booth to see what we're doing to address the standards and technical assessment aspects of Perkins IV. In addition, we're highlighting our work-based learning management system, VTECS Connect, which is very useful for developing training plans for work based learning situations such as coop and internships as well as for special needs students as they prepare to transition from secondary to post-secondary and the workplace.
GEORGIA STUDENT DISPLAYS
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Bridge-Gap STEM Mentoring Program
Leon R. Grant III
Instructor
The Pre-Engineering Program
Hiram High School
702 Ballentine Dr
Hiram, GA 30141
770-443-1182 x30039
The Bridge-Gap STEM mentoring program is a STEM outreach program of the Hiram High Pre-Engineering Program. The program has been in existence for five years. Last year seven schools and over 200 elementary and middle school students were mentored by Hiram High School pre-Engineering students in robotics which culminated with a county-wide robotic challenge.
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Culinary Arts Entrepreneurship Project
Elizabeth A. Proby
Pebblebrook High School
991 Old Alabama Road
Mableton, Georgia 30126
Career Tech Department Chair
ProStart Coordinator
770-819-2521 ext. 272
770-608-3614 cell
The Culinary Arts Entrepreneurship project is a student run restaurant created for the faculty members. The display will include activities that helped students with marketing, costing, promoting and preparing a variety of foods as well as practicing safety and sanitation in the workplace. This is a collaborative effort between the Marketing and Culinary Arts classes.
