SAN BERNARDINO – A handful of High Desert individuals, businesses and organizations were among 29 total nominees announced for the 23rd annual San Bernardino County Education Medal of Honor. The award recognizes community contributions to public education. Twelve school districts in the county are represented among this year’s nominees. (more…)
By Rene Ray De La Cruz, Staff Writer
Posted Dec 6, 2013 at 8:38 AM
ADELANTO – As a group of wide-eyed Boy Scouts from the High Desert watched the firing of multiple rockets, one engineer hoped he was looking at the scientists of the future. “My ultimate goal is to have one of these scouts come back in about six years and tell me that they’ve chosen a career in science because of our influence,” said Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Exquadrum Inc. in Adelanto. (more…)
ADELANTO – The founders of a Victor Valley business were crowned Technology Entrepreneurs of the Year during the 11th annual 2013 Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards ceremony. Co-founders Kevin Mahaffy and Eric Schmidt of Exquadrum Inc. in Adelanto took home the Technology Entrepreneur Award during “The Art of Entrepreneurship” event at the Ontario Convention Center. (more…)
APPLE VALLEY – Students, staff, local public officials and industry professionals gathered for an open house of Apple Valley High School’s new Precision Machining Academy on Thursday afternoon. The state-of-the-art computerized manufacturing shop was created to give AVHS students a leg up in the job market as well as incorporate applied math and science learning, Principal Dustin Conrad said. (more…)
VICTORVILLE – Since he was 10 years old, Joshua Marsden has been fascinated with designing things, and his father has advised him to choose his career early on. So he jumped at the opportunity when Excelsior Education Center began offering an internship program with Exquadrum, an aerospace engineering company creating innovative technology for government, military and businesses. (more…)
Bill Scott of Scott Turbon Mixer and Eric Schmidt of Exquadrum each spent a recent morning sharing the ins and outs of their Adelanto businesses as part of an educational field trip — but no busloads of students arrived at their sites. (more…)
By Natasha Lindstrom
Posted Oct 31, 2011 at 11:42 AM
ADELANTO – A local technology engineering company has shelved an innovative wind turbine project its officials had touted as having the potential to revolutionize the wind energy industry. In 2009, Adelanto-based Exquadrum won a prototype contract to develop the Orbital Track Turbine, which Vice President of Engineering Eric Schmidt said had the potential to outpower traditional turbines and go into production at a much cheaper cost. (more…)
VICTORVILLE – Kinetic fireballs that can neutralize biological weapons and infrared decoy flares that are nearly invisible to the naked eye are among the counter-terrorism tools Exquadrum plans to start testing soon at four abandoned military bunkers in Victorville. (more…)
ADELANTO -*- A local research and development company is advancing a new technology that could revolutionize the wind-farm industry. The Adelanto-based defense and aeronautics company Exquadrum is working on an innovative wind turbine that could cost much less than — and outpower — the largest existing wind turbines. (more…)
Washington – Nov 27, 2003
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force have awarded a contract to Exquadrum, Inc for the first phase of the Force Application and Launch from the Continental U.S. (FALCON). Exquadrum is a small business with extensive experience in the field of commercial and defense aerospace. (more…)
