(Hartford Courant, 6/29/18) Jon Lender’s June 23 column [”State’s Fuel Cell Bus Fleet Fades Away, After Initial Hopes of Pollution-Free Transit”] got the intent of the hydrogen fuel cell bus initiative right — it was a demonstration program to validate a clean energy technology for zero-emission buses operating in a…
June 28, 2018 Press Release Hartford, CT – Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement after it was announced that Elliot Ginsberg, CEO of the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) will be retiring effective November 1st and that Ron Angelo will be taking over as the new…
CCAT Director of Energy Joel Rinebold spoke at R&D Dynamics in Bloomfield on June 26 during the celebration of the company securing Class 1 renewable energy source designation for its groundbreaking “ThermoGen” system, which generates electricity from industrial low-grade waste heat. CCAT provided strategic assistance to R&D Dynamics for the…
WTIC hosted CCAT and the state cyber chief on June 16 for the Saturdays with Steve Parker broadcast. On hand were (counterclockwise from front) Chief Administrative Officer Natalie Real, Chief Technology Officer Tom Maloney and Communications Director Silvio Albino – all from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Steve Parker…
The manufacturing pipeline is only starting to get filled up in Connecticut. There’s more coming. At a celebratory ceremony held at Synergy Alternative High School in East Hartford on June 8, 13 students received certificates for completing their pre-apprenticeship program and 72-hour online ToolingU training. Governor Dannel P. Malloy spoke…
CCAT, CT’s Labor Dept., Spartan Aerospace and Synergy High’s principal discuss successes and potential of the pre-apprenticeship program. In case you missed it, listen to the broadcast.
(Public Now, 5/24/18) Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) joined Ranking Member Richard Neal (MA-01) in introducing the Improving Access to Good Jobs for Parents Act in the Ways and Means Committee as an amendment to the JOBS for Success Act (H.R. 5861) reauthorizing the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The…
(Hartford Business Journal, 5/14/18) ReSET — a staple of the Hartford coworking and business mentoring and accelerator scene for entrepreneurs since it first opened a physical space in 2013 — has had to share the entrepreneurial startup stage since the larger Upward Hartford opened downtown in mid-2017 with a high-profile…
(Hartford Courant, 5/4/18) Less then a year ago, Olivia Hernandez decided to transfer out of the high school where she’d missed months of class to suspensions for fighting and bad behavior. And she cried, for the lost credits that meant she likely wouldn’t graduate on time, and for what she…
(Hartford Courant, 4/20/18) Momentum is building in Hartford for an influx of new technology companies to shape and strengthen the future of the city’s insurance industry, long a bastion of steady habits and stagnant growth. The first seeds of that transformation were on display Wednesday at a showcase of the…
