The Young Entrepreneur Foundation of the National Federation of Independent Business, in conjunction with NFIB/Colorado, is accepting applications for $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors who have demonstrated entrepreneurial initiative. The deadline for applications is March 15. For information, visit www.nfib.com/yef.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory will offer consumer workshops on solar, wind and biomass energy for farms and ranches during the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo. The workshops will take place Saturday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Beef Palace Auction Arena.
Envirofit International Ltd., a Colorado-based nonprofit corporation that develops and disseminates technologies that reduce pollution and promotes energy efficiency in the developing world, has signed its first major agreement to retrofit 3,000 two-stroke taxi engines in the Philippine city of Vigan. Envirofit will use cleaner, more efficient engine technology originated at Colorado State University.
Quark Inc. of Denver announced Tuesday at the Macworld Expo that QuarkXPress 7, the next version of its desktop publishing software, will be the first major publishing application to run on Power PC and Intel-based Macs. The software will be available by the end of January.
Van Camp’s Quality Floors has volunteered its services to restore 4,000 square feet of original wood floors at the historic St. John’s Cathedral in Denver.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will honor former astronaut Vance Brand for his involvement in the Apollo space program Jan. 20 in the Longmont City Council Chambers, 350 Kimbark St.
Photo Stencil, a Colorado Springs-based provider of stencils and tooling for the surface-mount technology assembly of printed circuit boards, will present two papers at the IPC Printed Circuits Expo, APEX and Designers Summit. The conference will be in Anaheim, Calif., Feb 8-10.
New Global Telecom of Golden has received the Frost & Sullivan 2006 Service of the Year Award “for its advanced and innovative wholesale IP (Internet protocol) telephony services.”
ESoft Inc., a Broomfield- based vendor of integrated Internet security and content- management solutions, announced Tuesday that its ThreatWall Content Security Gateway has been named to SC Magazine’s Best of 2005 list.
Virtela, a Denver-based global network-solutions company, and ETT, an independent integrator of data communications for multinational organizations, announced a partnership that enables ETT to expand its network-service offerings and global reach.
NewsGator Technologies Inc. of Denver announced Tuesday at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco the availability of MarsEdit 1.1, a weblog editor that makes weblog writing similar to writing e-mail.
