Instead of building a costly training center, the USTTI offers its tuition-free training in corporate and federal training facilities, laboratories, television stations and studios that are volunteered for USTTI training across the United States. Within these training facilities, USTTI participants receive first-hand exposure to the latest technologies. The photos below, were taken during a variety of hands-on USTTI training sessions and demonstrate the opportunity that USTTI participants have to interact with cutting-edge technologies and with their colleagues from around the world.

2008 Training Year

	USTTI Scholars join Silicon Flatirons Executive Director Phil Weiser, University of Colorado Adjunct professor and Spectrum Management Guru Dale Hatfield and Associate Director of the ATLAS Institute Jill Van Matre for a group photo during their weeklong Management training seminar in Boulder. Women and men from Bhutan, Ghana, Jamaica, Kuwait, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia have now returned home were they are working to address the many issues facing managers in the constantly changing telecommunications environment. (Photo compliments of w3w3.com)
	Robert McDowell, Commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), briefs 23 USTTI scholars attending course M8-221, "Regulatory and Privatization Issues in Telecommunications" on the structure and organization of the FCC. Commissioner McDowell, one of five FCC Commissioners, also answered more than a dozen questions from developing country officials in his audience.
	Carlos Mena (6th from right), Public Health Analyst for the Office of the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) and Larry Bryant (9th from right), Deputy Director for OAT present diplomas to the graduates of USTTI Course M8-111: "Advanced Telemedicine and Distance Learning Applications." Course M8-111, attended by scholars from Afghanistan, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia marks the eleventh course sponsored by OAT, having now enabled 61 women and men from 22 developing nations to be better equipped in caring for the health and prosperity of their fellow neighbors.
	Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board and former Chief Executive Officer for QUALCOMM Incorporated speaks to sixteen USTTI Scholars for course M8-127: "IMT (3G/4G) Mobile Broadband and Mobile TV." The women and men who participated in course M8-127 have now returned home to their respective countries (Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, South Africa, Thailand, and Uganda) to share the experiences and insights gained through USTTI training.
	USTTI Scholars from Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Siearra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda take a break from the Federal Communication Commision and Comsearch's M8-101 course, "Spectrum Management in the Civil Sector" to pose with USTTI Chairman Michael R. Gardner (front and center).
	Rosemary Ramirez, Program Manager for Cisco Systems Inc. (3rd row from bottom, far right) joins twenty USTTI scholars during a momentary pause from training to enjoy the sunshine at Cisco's facility. The M8-131 course, "Internet Service Provider Design Seminar and Backbone Routing Protocol Workshop" included 20 participants from Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Kosovo, Nepal, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia. Since 1999, Cisco has shown its unwavering support of USTTI and the developing world by training three hundred and forty-five scholars from seventy-seven different nations.
	Curriculum Coordinator Janet Cerbo Concepcion (fifth from left, in front), Voice of America's (VOA) Program Planning and Development Officer Sandra Stewart (ninth from left, in rear) and past president of the IEEE/BTS Dr. Gerald Berman (eighth from left, in front) pose with the graduating class of M8-160: "New Technologies in Broadcasting." The alumni of course M8-160 include twelve individuals from Cameroon, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Since 1984, VOA volunteers have taught fifty-one courses, bringing years of experience and education to over four hundred scholars from the developing world.
	In 2008, SCOLA (a foreign language TV/Web provider) empowered six individuals from Ghana, Philippines, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia through their tuition-free offering of course M8-141: "Satellite and Internet Delivery of Educational Television and Multimedia." USTTI scholars (left) take a break from their intensive hands-on-training to pose for a photograph at SCOLA's headquarters in McClelland, Iowa. The graduates of course M8-141 are now part of the seventy-two women and men from twenty-eight developing countries that SCOLA has trained to better deliver educational broadcasting to women, men, and children around the globe.
	United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT), Jacqueline E. Shafer (first row, third from left) briefed a group of e-Government officials from 19 developing nations, attending the fourth "e-Government for Development: Strategies and Policies" Seminar in Washington, DC. Joining Assistant Administrator Schafer, and the USTTI scholars for a picture break from their rigorous training is Laura Samotshozo, Information Technology Project Manager for USAID and last year's Chairman's Awardee (first row, far right). Juan A. B. Belt, Director Office of Infrastructure and Engineering, EGAT represents USAID on the USTTI Board.
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