https://demo2.ProObject.com A brief summary of the events that are happening at ProObject. On Saturday, February 26, 2011, ProObject sponsored 42 athletes and 11 volunteers at the Tri-to-Help Triathlon held at the Canton Merritt Athletic Club in Baltimore, MD. ProObject's sponsorship honored the memory of Jody Ferguson and served to raise Epilepsy awareness. Congratulations to Stuart Pineo, Jim Kriete and Alanea Kriete for finishing in 1st place as a Relay Team. Stuart Pineo also won the first Ironman Award for completing the full triathlon, in addition to competing on a relay team! Results for all participants are available at http://www.tritohelp.org/. ProObject held its Annual Duck Pin Bowling Event on Sunday, January 30th at the Glen Burnie Bowl Center. The entire bowling alley was reserved for the 118 employees and their family and friends who attended. As the lights went out, the pins lit up and the music turned on. A good time was had by all as they enjoyed cosmic bowling. ProObject became the new home for the Baltimore SharePoint Users Group (BSUG), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and informational resources for Microsoft SharePoint and its related technologies. BSUG meetings bring together private and public sector system admins, developers, managers, and consultants from the Baltimore area to network and share knowledge and practical experience about SharePoint. ProObject strives to meet the needs of its clients, many of whom, have an increasing need for SharePoint expertise. ProObject views its sponsorship of BSUG as a strategic alliance, which strengthens its ability to provide quality services for its customers by fostering knowledge sharing and discussion about SharePoint in a positive, productive, and participatory environment. More information can be found at http://www.baltimoresug.org/default.aspx. ProObject celebrated the 2010 Holiday season at the Marriott Waterfront hotel located in the Harbor East section of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Employees and their significant others gathered to celebrate ProObject's last over-the-top event in honor of our 15 Year Anniversary with great food, great music, and great dancing! ProObject employees participated in the Salisbury University's 22nd annual Sea Gull Century. The ride this year attracted over 8,100 riders, from 6 to 88 years of age, on a picture perfect weather day! Thank you to all our employees and their families who participated in this great fundraiser event and supporting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training, Alzheimer's Association's ALZ Stars and American Cancer Society's DetermiNation charities. For more info on the event check out http://www.seagullcentury.org/. Team ProObject raced in the Nation's Triathlon in Washington, DC. This was a challenging triathlon that included a 1.5 km swim, a 40 km cycling loop and a 10k run in and around Washington, DC. ProObject is proud to have participated in this charity event in support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Four individual folks participated in the triathlon this year, including John Martin, Meredith Young, Chris Young and Dave Parsram. We had three relay teams for this event as well. The teams consisted of: Team I - Jennifer Young, Joey Grigg, Charles Grigg; Team II - Ryan Kirby, Scott Wood, Scott Kirby; Team III - Jody Ferguson, Justin Seat, Wayne Wilson. Congratulations to all our participants! For more info on the event check out http://www.thenationstriathlon.com/. ProObject hosted its annual family picnic on Saturday, Sept 11, 2010 at Centennial Park in Columbia, Maryland. 175 employees and guests enjoyed the beautiful sunny day, delicious food and lots of fun. Catering was provided by Ken's Creative Kitchen of Annapolis. The children had a blast with the carnival games, a 38 foot obstacle course and Spin Art. Great door prizes including an Apple iPad and Baltimore Ravens tickets were given away. This event is always enjoyed by everyone. As part of our year long celebration of 15 successful years of support to our clients, ProObject is hosting the 2nd in the series of technical seminars featuring acclaimed author Dr. Douglas Schmidt on Wednesday, August 11, 2010. Dr. Schmidt will detail current methods of using patterns and frameworks for reducing the complexity of concurrent and network applications, leveraging his accomplishments in both private and Government sectors. On Wednesday, June 23, ProObject held its annual golf tournament. The tournament took place at the Patuxent Greens Golf Course in Laurel. Many individual prizes were awarded including a tough one putt contest on the putting green, longest drive, and closest to the pin. The first place team prize was taken by team purple. The Sacha brothers all wore the same purple shirt. Their team spirit helped them out shoot the other ProObject teams. Overall there were forty-eight employees and guests forming twelve teams. Everyone had fun testing their skills on a tight, tricky course filled with many water hazards. ProObject was a proud sponsor of the eighth annual Father's Day Tri-To-Win Sprint Triathlon held at the South Carroll Swim Club in Carroll County, Maryland. ProObject employees, families and friends participated in the triathlon. The event consisted of a 400-meter swim, 14-mile bike, and a 5K run. The 400-meter swim featured a great outdoor competition pool, and the 14-mile bike and 5K run showcased the scenic and rolling countryside of southern Carroll County, Maryland. The 15 Year Open House, held on May 13, 2010, was a great success! Over 123 employees, clients and business partners participated in the celebration. The catered event created a warm and receptive atmosphere while conversations centered on ProObject's 15 years of providing outstanding service to our client's missions and goals. Guests also enjoyed tours of the building, and the technical demonstrations did an excellent job of showcasing our corporate capabilities. Thanks to everyone who attended and volunteered. Overall, the day far exceeded our expectations, and we are looking forward to doing it again in another 5 years! ProObject participated as a Founder Sponsor in the 3rd Annual AFCEA Central Maryland Race for Excellence 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run. It was designed to be an uplifting, family-oriented, community event, the proceeds of which helped to benefit AFCEA's Central Maryland Scholarship Fund. ProObject employees, family members, along with our customers and partners participated in the AFCEA Race for Excellence on Saturday, April 24th. This event was designed for people of all ages to gather as one to run and walk together for all the area to see. Pre-event activities were staged at SAIC in Columbia, MD, with both the start and finish lines on Columbia Gateway Drive. The primary mission of AFCEA's Central Maryland Chapter is to serve the community through fund-raising to provide merit-based scholarships to deserving, local high school students who are competitively selected. To find out more information please visit www.afceacmd.org. Marty Hall, renowned author Java expert, came to ProObject to talk about Ajax and Google Web Toolkit (GWT). ProObject celebrated its 15th anniversary with a free one day training course on Ajax programming from renowned author and developer Marty Hall (President, coreservlets.com). "Ajax" refers to the set of techniques that let you asynchronously update individual portions of Web pages. Ajax was first popularized by Google, but is now widely used in diverse types of Web applications. The morning covered "classic" Ajax programming using the jQuery JavaScript library on the client, and Java on the server. The afternoon covered Google Web Toolkit (GWT), an open source toolkit that lets you build both the client and server parts of your Ajax application in Java. ProObject ski enthusiasts enjoyed a one day ski trip to Whitetail Resort on February 15, 2008. They met there at the lodge, conquered the slopes, had a lot of fun and met after the day ended in Frederick for a nice leisurely dinner. Our Annual Duck Pin Bowling Event took place on Sunday, January 31st at the Glen Burnie Bowl Center. We had approximately 90 people in attendance. We had great door prizes, cosmic bowling and lots of fun! Our employees, families, and friends filled the entire bowling alley, and everyone had a great time! As a proud member of the Fort Meade Alliance (FMA), ProObject will help support the planning for Fort Meade's future and BRAC - related activities. Through our participation, ProObject will be supporting community projects like wounded warriors, Project SCOPE (security Clearance Overview Preparation Education), Tech Mania and others. The FMA helps create partnerships between government, private industry, federal and local government and the communities to enhance the economic viability of Fort Meade. In celebration of ProObject's 15 years of service to the Intelligence Community, there are numerous charitable, social, and educational events planned throughout the year to show our sincere appreciation to our employees, clients, and partners. ProObject is a small business with a 15 year history of providing outstanding service to the DOD in the cyber security and signals intelligence (SIGINT) domains. ProObject creates better intelligence systems to gain a decisive information advantage for the warfighter, our Nation, and our Allies.