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38 Hartford Business Journal • June 8, 2015 www.HartfordBusiness.com ▶ ▶ For the fourth consecutive year, Simsbury Bank adopted Tariffville Elementary School to deliver Junior Achievement's business and economics program to 283 students from kindergarten through sixth grade. Twenty-eight volunteers (shown left) from Simsbury Bank and the Simsbury community delivered interactive lessons on a range of topics including buying and selling and international trade. SIMSBURY BANK ADOPTS TARIFFVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT DAY ▶ ▶ Celebrating May's annual National Tourism Week, more than 75 tourism industry advocates from across the state convened at Central Regional Tourism District's "Spring/Summer 2015 Great Brochure Swap" to exchange ideas in preparation for the tens of thousands of visitors expected in Connecticut over the next few months. Representatives of Connecticut attractions, hotels, restaurants, and group tour companies exchanged hundreds of visitor guides and brochures and shared the latest travel news. Pictured (from left): Beth Pruchnic, Inn at Middletown; Kimberly Walton, Connecticut Office of Tourism's Welcome Centers; Debbie Giantonio, Central Regional Tourism District/CenterofCT.com; Anne Orsene, Central Regional Tourism District/CenterofCT.com; Stephen F. Hard, Greater New Britain Arts Alliance; and Julia Gritzbach, Visit New Haven. CT TOURISM COMPANIES TAKE PART IN GREAT BROCHURE SWAP ▶ ▶ Best Buy employees (above) recently spent the afternoon volunteering at the Asylum Hill Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford. The group instructed and engaged more than 55 kids in tech-education projects, including best practices with devices such as tablets, cellphones, laptops, and more. They also conducted technology experiments and mapping projects. The goal of the program was to teach club members how to use these devices effectively, safely, and responsibly. BEST BUY VOLUNTEERS AT BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD OF NOTE COMCAST'S MCCARTHY HONORED AS CABLE TV PIONEER Andrew McCarthy, vice president of engineering and network oper- ations for Comcast's Western New England Region, was recently inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers Class of 2015, which recognizes 16 honorees nationally each year who have a minimum of 20 years of direct involvement and contribution to the cable industry. McCarthy oversees the engineering, planning, and deployment of new products throughout the region, which serves customers in more than 300 communities throughout the Northeast. He works to ensure the reliability of Comcast's converged fiber-optic network and is responsible for the region's network operations, including con- struction, product engineering, and overall system integrity. • • • PRATT & WHITNEY'S OSWALD NAMED TO '100 MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE' LIST Caitlin Oswald, additive manufacturing project manager for Pratt & Whitney, has been selected as one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business for 2015" by the editors of Fast Company magazine. Oswald is responsible for managing a group of engineers who are designing next-generation parts using additive manufacturing technologies. Her team supports community-wide initiatives to utilize additive-manufactured parts for fixtures and prototyping, rigs and development engines, and transition-to-production efforts. Oswald also manages electron beam melting technology. • • • HARTFORD HEALTHCARE CANCER INSTITUTE DOC RECEIVES AWARD FROM JOHNS HOPKINS Dr. Peter D. Byeff, medical director of the Hartford Healthcare Cancer Institute at The Hospital of Central Connecticut, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Heritage Award from the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association. Byeff, who earned his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is being recognized for his support of the university mission and his record of clinical research and visionary leadership in the delivery of cancer care to the peo- ple of central Connecticut. Please Note: All electronic submissions for Accolades should be sent to accolades@HartfordBusiness.com. For more information about the Hartford Business Journal's Accolades Page, please visit www.HartfordBusiness.com. (Pictured, from left) Leslie H. Read, executive director, Cable TV Pioneers; Andrew McCarthy; and Susan Bitter Smith, chairman of the board, Cable TV Pioneers. Caitlin Oswald Dr. Peter D. Byeff ACCOLADES & MORE

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