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BY LAUREN SALCEDO
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Leslie Faxon, center, asks questions of her instructor as fellow teachers look on during the 2013 Summer Academy for teachers at Haller Middle School on Aug. 22.
Gov. Inslee dedicates OutBack Power’s new facility BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Vol. 124, No. 05
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From left, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee joins Alpha Group CEO, Chair and founder Fred Kaiser, Altair Advanced Industries CEO and Chair Grace Borsari, and Alpha Technologies President and COO Drew Zogby in cutting the ribbon to OutBack Power Technologies’ facility.
ARLINGTON — Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee was joined by Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert and other Arlington city officials as he officially dedicated the new location of OutBack Power Technologies in the Arlington Advanced Manufacturing Park with representatives of its company parent, the Alpha Group, on Thursday, Aug. 22. OutBack Power has grown so much since its founding in Arlington in 2001 that it required commuting up and down the east side of the Arlington Municipal Airport to reach all of its divisions. When its employees moved into their current offices three months ago, it has allowed them all to work from the same site.
While Mara White of OutBack’s product development was proud to tout the ever-escalating popularity of its three-day, 17-credit training course for solar power installers, OutBack applications engineer Mark Mays explained to Inslee how the company is developing new applications for solar power products, including an alternating current coupling system that allows a grid-tied power inverter to substitute for the utility’s power grid when the power grid has been knocked out. “If there’s something like a hurricane, a homeowner with solar power might say, ‘Hey, what happened to my power?’” Mays said. “That power can become trapped on their roof, because the gridtied inverter is required by law not to back-feed into the grid when it goes SEE INSLEE, PAGE 19
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ARLINGTON — Classrooms were packed at Haller Middle School on Aug. 21-22, though they weren’t students who filled the desks — they were teachers. Arlington Public Schools offered the second Summer Academy for teachers to undergo training on new curriculum standards, education tools, behavior management and more. A total of 388 teachers signed up for one or more sessions during the two-day voluntary training seminar and took advantage of the opportunity to be the ones raising their hands and asking questions. “Everything is related to what they are using in the classroom,” said Andrea Conley, public information coordinator for Arlington Public Schools. “We chose the Danielson Instructional Framework to evaluate our staff — from administrators, teachers and even our superintendent. It’s an ongoing framework to allow specific feedback for teachers, so we have a num-