GAZeL is proud to announce three new Board Members, including Sharon Bolster, Brad Boute, and Cindy Saint.

Sharon is Managing Partner at Power Ed, Brian is Director of Online Education at

Southwest Institute of Healing Arts and Cindy is VP of Technical Services Curriculum at Pearson.

Read more about the GAZeL Board at: http://gazel.org/board

Unfortunately, this event needs to be rescheduled due to a federal inspection. Pearson has graciously offered to host a replacement networking even. Click here for more details about the upcoming Pearson Networking event.

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AIRFORCE RESEARCH LAB - Tour of the Facility

GAZeL NETWORKING MEETING – NOON -1:30

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The GAZeL Membership is invited to post their Questions and invite others to provide answers.

GAZeL PRESENTS

TraCorp: The Evolution of Building a Business

WHAT: GAZeL’S NEXT NETWORKING AND INFORMATION EVENT

WHEN: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2008
NOON – 2:00 pm

WHERE: THE NEW FACILITY OF TRACORP
5621 W.. BEVERLY LANE
GLENDALE, AZ 85306

This is an event worth seeing, hearing and enjoying. Take time to network, listen to CEO, Andy Schermuly, tell how he grew this company. Go to the TraCorp website www.tracorp.com and learn about this business.

There is a $15 charge for a sack lunch from the Wildflower Bread Co. This will include a sandwich, chips and a cookie. Soft drinks, water and coffee will be available.

Please click the button below pay through Pal Pal.

The "Apache" Nde (The People) are a culturally rich society with heritage tied to Mother Earth which is evident to this day, their existence is steeped with thousands of years of clanship lineage and knowledge passed down for centuries, we welcome you to meet the peoples of this community to discover their stories, artifacts and knowledge.

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SanCarlosApache.com

This is a video showing a recent visit with Head Start kids. Enjoy!

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Letter from the President, Arizona Technology Council

Some of the greatest accomplishments of humankind were the work of young people. Bill Gates was 20 when he launched Microsoft; he and Paul Allen were in high school when they began conceiving the personal computer. Steve Jobs was 21 when he founded Apple. Sergey Brin and Larry Page were in graduate school when they developed their first search engine. Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein were 26 when they developed the basis for their theories of natural selection and relativity, respectively. Isaac Newton was 23 when his discoveries formed the basis for calculus.

Consequently, there is nothing more important to the future of Arizona's technology sector than improving the performance of our K through 12 education system. Arizona currently ranks an abysmal 50th out of 50 states in the annual ranking of "Smart States."

You can make an immediate impact (see accompanying article) on the state's educational outlook. A team of high school kids from Gilbert, Arizona's Highland High School were winners at the 2008 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, Las Vegas Regional.