Category: Technology

Free virtual academic tutors available for Santa Maria Joint Union High School District students

by Community Contributor • April 1, 2021 • Comments Off

Free virtual academic tutors are now available to SMJUHSD students 24/7 and 361 days a year.

The district recently partnered with Tutor.com to help young people with homework, assignment completion, essays and papers. It’s available for most subjects and in Spanish and English for core subjects. Students can also receive written feedback on rough drafts.

“I think tutor.com is very beneficial,’’ said Carlissa Solorio, a senior at SMHS. “We don’t have to show our faces and help is there 24/7 whenever we need it. I feel excited about using Tutor.com.’’

UCSB — The Current — April 3 in IV

by Community Contributor • April 1, 2021 • Comments Off

Aiming for another safe and quiet weekend, a host of at-home activities — and restrictions — are in place for April 2-4.

SBCC School of Extended Learning to offer Microsoft Basic Outlook 1

by Community Contributor • March 29, 2021 • Comments Off

Prepare to enter or re-enter the workforce or stay in touch with Outlook for email and work task and calendar management to connect with colleagues, customers, family and friends. SBCC Career Skills Institute’s Basic Outlook course provides a basic hands-on introduction to Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft’s premier email and information management program. Students learn how to stay up-to-date at home or work by using Outlook to set up an account and connect with colleagues, customers, family and friends. Topics include how to use basic aspects of Outlook to do email, handle people (contact) lists, maintain a calendar and track tasks.

SBCC School of Extended Learning Career Skills Institute to present ‘Introduction to Windows’

by Community Contributor • March 25, 2021 • Comments Off

SBCC School of Extended Learning, Career Skills Institute to present ‘Introduction to Windows.’

Prepare to enter or re-enter the workforce with the computer skills needed for entry-level office jobs with high employment potential jobs in Santa Barbara County and California. SBCC Career Skills Institute’s Introduction to Windows course helps you explore Help, windows navigation and management, file management, desktop customization, and other Windows Operating System and applications.

UCSB — The Current — ‘Double the Recognition’ and more news

by Community Contributor • March 25, 2021 • Comments Off

Two research societies honor ecologist Erika Eliason for her work studying the effects of climate change on Pacific fish.

Terry Theobald Selected to Lead County of Ventura Information Technology Services

by Community Contributor • March 18, 2021 • Comments Off

County Executive Officer Mike Powers has appointed Terry Theobald as the County’s new Chief Information Officer (CIO). “It is an honor and privilege to be appointed to the role of CIO. I am deeply committed to improving the lives of Ventura County residents and workers through technology. I’m looking forward to working with the IT Services organization, County agencies and all of IT’s customers to implement critical projects and continue the efforts to bring innovative solutions forward in our County,” said Terry Theobald.

Cold Again Refrigeration Services recently launched in Oxnard to target local companies with commercial refrigeration equipment

by Community Contributor • March 15, 2021 • Comments Off

A new company, Cold Again Refrigeration Services, a Commercial Refrigeration Services Company, launched March 2021 in response to demand for more specialized services from the commercial refrigeration equipment services sector.

Cold Again Refrigeration Services will help customers to feel at ease about the continued performance of their vital refrigeration equipment. Cold Again knows that their customers want functional, reliable and long-lasting equipment and already works with markets, restaurants and hotels, to name just a few.

CSUCI’s inaugural 2021 Plot-A-Thon Data Visualization Festival equips students to join data gold rush

by Community Contributor • March 8, 2021 • Comments Off

Don’t just show numbers—tell a story. That was the idea behind CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI)’s 2021 Plot-a-thon Data Visualization Festival, which was held last Friday.

The virtual day-long event immersed students in the world of data visualization—the process of taking a mountain of raw data and compressing it into a colorful pie chart, bar chart, a word cloud, cartoons or an interactive map that appears to move and breathe as the data rolls in.

Ventura College Receives Two Awards for Excellence

by Community Contributor • March 1, 2021 • Comments Off

We are pleased to announce that Ventura College has been presented with two awards of excellence this year, from the California Colleges Board of Governors and the Ventura County Economic Development Association.

“We are so proud of our faculty, staff and administrators for their tireless work to help improve the college experience for our students. These awards are a nod to their remarkable efforts,” said Ventura College President Dr. Kimberly Hoffmans. “Our

SBCC’s Jim Clark receives prestigious information technology award

by Community Contributor • February 25, 2021 • Comments Off

Jim Clark, Santa Barbara City College’s Director of Information Technology Infrastructure and Security, was recently notified by the Chief Information Systems Officers Association of the California Community Colleges (CISOA) that he is the recipient of the CISOA Technology Planning Award for 2021. The award is bestowed upon someone who has played a prominent role in evaluating information technology variables and developing a strategic plan of action that advances the college mission.

Santa Maria HS FCCLA take part in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) during FCCLA Week

by Community Contributor • February 19, 2021 • Comments Off

The Santa Maria High School FCCLA recently joined more than 182,000 members across the nation in raising awareness of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America and advocating for Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) during FCCLA Week.

Held annually during the second week of February in conjunction with Career and Technical Education Month, FCCLA Week celebrates the accomplishments of FCCLA and the positive impact FCS has on our society, according to Saint Teacher and Advisor Nicki Pedeliski.

VCCCD Receives Statewide CISOA Technology Excellence Team Award

by Community Contributor • February 16, 2021 • Comments Off

When the COVID-19 pandemic required Ventura County Community College District’s employees to transition to remote work in March, the District’s information technology team faced a challenge. They needed to provide over 500 employees with an immediate, reliable secure process for accessing their core applications and files. A transition process that historically would take six to 10 weeks, the IT team did in 10 days. They accomplished this feat by evaluating, selecting and implementing Amazon AppStream 2.0, a fully managed application and desktop streaming service built on Amazon Web Services.

Community Environmental Council Welcomes New Members to Partnership Council

by Community Contributor • February 1, 2021 • Comments Off

The Community Environmental Council (CEC) is pleased to announce new members to its Partnership Council. CEC’s Partnership Council is comprised of a broad spectrum of community leaders who act as ambassadors to advocate, network, and promote on behalf of CEC.

Aerospace Startup, LaunchPoint, Releases New Hybrid Generator for Electricity-Powered Flight

by Community Contributor • January 28, 2021 • Comments Off

A newly released, hybrid-electric generator system developed by Santa Barbara-area startup, LaunchPoint, opens up new possibilities in the fast-growing field of hybrid electric-powered flight. The product is currently available only from LaunchPoint and is shipping to domestic and global customers.

Created by a team of elite engineers over a decade, the LaunchPoint HPS400 GenSet is a 40kW generator with the capacity to power large drones and flying vehicle missions that require extended ranges of flight. This innovative technology offers new opportunities for companies working to develop extended-flight, airborne transportation and cargo delivery systems for what’s known as the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) markets.

March 10, 11 — CLU School of Management to present upcoming virtual events

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2021 • Comments Off

Event put on by our Masters in Information Technology – Cybersecurity, Data Analytics program.

Guest Speaker: Eric Odero, MBA in IT Management alumnus and CEO of Command Health Informatics (CHI)

Join to learn about:

Current applications of information technology to improve healthcare services
Impact and trajectory of electronic health records as a disruptive technology
Career opportunities for IT professionals to fill vital needs in health informatics
Monday, March 1
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. (PT)

FREE on ZOOM
More information about event

March 23 — Bilingual report — CEC Offers Affordable Electric Vehicle Clinic

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2021 • Comments Off

The Community Environmental Council (CEC) will host Affordable Electric Vehicle Clinic: How to Qualify for a Free or Low-Cost EV on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. The clinic is offered in partnership with Ecology Action, with support from Electrify America and Access Clean California.
This FREE virtual clinic is open to the public and will be presented in English with Spanish interpretation. Those interested in attending must register in advance at http://bit.ly/3bg0vlf.

Through May 14 — LaunchPoint to Present at World’s Leading International Technical Event on Vertical Flight Technology

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2021 • Comments Off

Aerospace propulsion company LaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Solutions, Inc. – a leader in developing electric motors, hybrid-electric propulsion systems and control software for advanced air mobility – is pleased to announce its participation in the Vertical Flight Society’s 77th Annual Forum and Technology Display, being held virtually from May 10 to 14, 2021.

Michael Ricci, LaunchPoint’s Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, will speak on an eVTOL Special Session forum panel about enabling technologies for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Ricci is the driving force behind LaunchPoint’s “Propulsion by Wire” electric aircraft propulsion system, one of the company’s many cutting-edge innovations. As a panel member, he will share insights based on his extensive development experience in advanced power electronics, electromagnetic and mechanical systems, embedded software development, and control system design.

Sept. 23 — Explore Lompoc Partners with NASA and USGS to Celebrate 50 Years of Landsat Ahead of September’s Landsat 9 Launch

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2021 • Comments Off

The NASA/USGS Landsat 9 satellite scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on September 16 has been pushed back to September 23 because of transportation issues involving liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen is needed to support launch site activities.

For nearly five decades, the Landsat mission has provided the longest continuous record of Earth’s land surfaces from space, and this data archive informs and influences not just the U.S., but countries across the world. Information gathered by Landsat helps world leaders and policymakers gain a deeper understanding of environmental change, respond to natural disasters, and even forecast future crop production.

To commemorate Landsat and its importance to our understanding of Earth, Explore Lompoc, NASA, and USGS are hosting many “Launch Week” events in the city of Lompoc during the days before and after the launch. Here are the activities with the rescheduled times.

Microscope co-designed by CSUCI Physics lecturer is used onboard the International Space Station

by Community Contributor • December 29, 2020 • Comments Off

A compact microscope co-designed by CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Physics Lecturer Brian Rasnow, Ph.D., is circling the globe aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

When the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 7, it carried three Lumascopes in the so-called Dragon cargo capsule. The microscopes were part of a system installed in the space station where they are being used to research the effect of microgravity on human cells.

Science, math, student health and beavers will all benefit from four different CSUCI grants

by Community Contributor • December 21, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) has received four grants that will benefit university science and math students; primary and secondary school physical education classes across the state, and perhaps provide important research for California when the state makes wildfire policy.

The virtual learning environment prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic is creating some hurdles for all students, but may be especially challenging for students taking critical math courses necessary for them to major in one of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

UCSB — The Current — Race, Global Migration and Precarity

by Community Contributor • November 24, 2020 • Comments Off

A new Sawyer Seminar will explore the intersections of identity, migration and inequality in California, France and South Korea.

CSUCI installs cost-saving solar array on campus

by Community Contributor • November 23, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) is set to begin installing a solar array that will provide approximately 68% of the University’s electrical energy needs on an annual basis.

“CSUCI has been working diligently toward having a solar array that will provide clean, renewable energy for the campus and greatly reduce costs for electricity,” said Tom Hunt, CSUCI’s Interim Assistant Vice President for Facilities Services.

County of Ventura Named #1 Digital County in the Nation by Center for Digital Government and National Association of Counties

by Community Contributor • September 3, 2020 • Comments Off

This year’s first-place winners include:

? County of Ventura, Calif. (500,000 – 999,999 population category):
Ventura County made network upgrades to support its COVID-19 response on short notice. In addition, the county created partnerships to provide telemedicine to citizens, and the county’s Lean Six Sigma program and STEM for young women program have become county best practices.

CSUCI to honor Class of 2020 with virtual celebration

by Community Contributor • May 1, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) will salute the Class of 2020 with a livestream celebration beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 23.

The celebration is being held on the same day the students were to graduate and President Erika D. Beck, Ph.D. stressed that this will not replace the in-person graduation, which had to be postponed because of the COVID-19 crisis.

Bilingual commentary: Passing the Time

by Community Contributor • April 30, 2020 • Comments Off

Some fortunate souls are able to work from home during this pandemic, which seems to have no end. If some of the more pessimistic health experts are right, it just may not.

On the other hand, there are many of us who don’t have the luxury of working from home. We may be a service provider whose livelihood was suddenly yanked away. We might be in the retail industry, which in some quarters is struggling to breathe and may not survive an environment that is essentially hostile to its products (think clothing and fashion) or to sales in general (for traditional summer fun, back-to-school, Black Friday and Christmas), which are completely unpredictable at this time.

Bilingual commentary: Are We Being Forced Online?

by Community Contributor • April 23, 2020 • Comments Off

For my two older grandsons, living and playing online is nothing novel, even in the face of this “novel” coronavirus. Several years ago, I saw them playing high-stakes games (in their minds, at least) in cyberspace using their headphones, microphones and X-boxes. Sometimes they would play with their cousins on the other side of town, and sometimes with strangers—somewhere in the world. They are not living in the world in which I grew up, where tournaments of paramount importance for us at the time consisted primarily of physical board games such as checkers, chess, Parcheesi, Scrabble and Monopoly.

Jackson Announces a Ban on Facial Recognition Technology

by Community Contributor • February 13, 2020 • Comments Off

SACRAMENTO – State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson’s (D-Santa Barbara),chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced plans today to introduce legislation to impose a five year ban on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement and other public entities. The…

Bilingual commentary: Storage “In the Cloud”

by Community Contributor • December 19, 2019 • Comments Off

Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes local guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of Amigos805. David Magallanes By David…

CSUCI to offer cloud computing course

by Community Contributor • December 17, 2019 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — The next generation of computer careers is riding on a cloud. Workers skilled at cloud computing are increasingly in demand at industry giants like Netflix, Amazon and Google. Fourteen percent of all jobs in all areas require cloud skills,…

Bilingual commentary: My Life With Social Media: It’s “Complicated”

by Community Contributor • August 22, 2019 • Comments Off

Exploding pumpkins and flaming gummy bears among 120+ science activities at CSUCI Science Carnival on Nov. 3

by Community Contributor • November 2, 2018 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — At least six museums from Ventura and Santa Barbara counties will participate in this year’s free CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Science Carnival on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 4 to 8 p.m. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; the California Oil…

Northrop Grumman Opens New Facility Bringing Innovation and Jobs to Oxnard

by Community Contributor • August 14, 2018 • Comments Off

OXNARD — Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village) joined Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), executives and local officials today for the formal opening of Astro Aerospace’s new facility in Oxnard. The 140,000 square foot manufacturing center will increase efficiency and help…

April 26 — Area business, technology and faculty leaders to be recognized at CSUCI’s Business & Technology Partnership event

by Community Contributor • March 1, 2018 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — Five CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) students, a technology company, a business leader, and an Assistant Professor of Mathematics will be honored Thursday, April 26 at the 14th annual Business & Technology Partnership (B&TP) Leadership Dinner. The students will each be presented…

LULAC Launched New Website Aimed to Engage Tech-Savvy Latinos

by Community Contributor • February 15, 2018 • Comments Off

New Design Funded by Verizon Foundation WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the nation’s largest and oldest Latino civil rights organization, launched its newly redesigned website, funded by the generous contributions of the Verizon…

Feb. 21 — Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and New Realm Technology Recognize Children’s Dental Health Month with the Launch ToothHero App to Encourage Good Oral Hygiene

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2018 • Comments Off

SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics (SBNC) is celebrating National Children’s Dental Health Month with the launch of the ToothHero app, a game which will help kids fight plaque! Parents can bring their children to Franklin Elementary School, located…

Aug. 25 — California Welcome Center in Oxnard and REI Team up to offer Photography Class

by Community Contributor • July 1, 2017 • Comments Off

OXNARD – For all those locals and visitors interested in learning all about the latest trends in mobile photography, the California Welcome Center (CWC) located at the Collection Shopping Center in Oxnard is teaming up with REI to offer a…

emPower Hosts Dine & Discover Workshop at Petrini’s Italian Restaurant July 26

by Community Contributor • July 1, 2016 • Comments Off

In an effort to help homeowners keep their homes more comfortable and energy efficient this summer, emPower Central Coast will be hosting a Dine & Discover workshop 5:30 – 7 p.m. July 26 at Petrini’s Italian Restaurant, 5711 Calle Real,…

Local business information

by Amigos805.com • June 1, 2015 • Comments Off

> The Maritime Advanced Systems & Technology (MAST) will hold an open house and technology expo starting at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 10 at the Port of Hueneme, 333 Ponoma St., Port Hueneme. MAST fosters leading-edge technological innovation and integration…

SBCC MESA Program’s transfers surpass 100 mark

by Amigos805.com • May 12, 2015 • Comments Off

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara City College’s MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) Program reached a milestone this spring surpassing the 100-student mark for members who successfully completed their studies at SBCC and will or have transferred to four-year colleges or…

Business: The benefits of business podcasting

by Amigos805.com • October 1, 2014 • Comments Off

By Metro Editorial Services (MS) mall businesses, understand the importance of establishing an online presence. Identifying new content strategies can help keep a company’s name and business motto fresh in the minds of consumers. Search engine optimization, or SEO, and…

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