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Projects
AAM Program   Broadband
The Adventure of the American Mind (AAM)
The AAM program is designed to train in-service and pre-service classroom teachers and college teacher education faculty to access, use and produce curriculum utilizing the Internet and the digitized primary source materials from the collections of the Library of Congress.
ERC Broadband
The ERC has created a high-speed, fiber optic infrastructure that is now providing unparalleled Broadband Internet connectivity to the region. This high-capacity, fiber-optic network is operational and puts Western North Carolina on the map as a Tier 2 Internet access point, offering services previously available only in larger metropolitan areas like Raleigh and Charlotte.
PFI   KCeeI
The Pisgah Forest Institute
(PFI) provides environmental instruction for educators. PFI is a cooperative effort between Brevard College, the USDA Forest Service and the Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association (CFAIA). PFI operates under the administration of the Appalachian Center for Environmental Solutions (ACES) at Brevard College as part of the ERC.

  

KCeeI
KCeeI is a new environmental education Institute at Keystone College in LaPlume, PA and will offer its first workshops in July 2004. The program is modeled after the successful Pisgah Forest Institute at Brevard College. KCeeI is committed to enhancing the teaching experience by providing hands-on, inquiry based science and environmental education to educators using nature as a laboratory.

National Weather Service   DMI

NEXRAD Level II Radar Data
The Education and Research Consortium (ERC) has partnered with the National Weather Service and the National Climatic Data Center to distribute and archive NOAA's WSR-88D Level II radar data.

 

The Digital Media Institute
DMI began in the Fall of 2002 with the primary objective of retraining displaced workers for today's technology-driven job market. The program is administered through Blue Ridge Community College's Flat Rock campus and is funded through the Department of Labor.

 

WNC Health Network - Providers Working Together

HRSA

  

UT-Battelle

ORNL/EERE
A tele-health grant through HRSA is funding an initiative to electronically link area health care providers. This project is led by the 14 area hospitals and will result in a system to provide cost-effective, integrated technology services.   The ERC is currently working with UT-Battelle, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to facilitate the development of new energy conservation and efficiency technologies in the Western Carolinas that will support technology transfer in the region.
     
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