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--Steve Stone photo Pavlo Rudenko of Colfax, founder of TriboTEX, explains the science behind his company at The Center as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week observance Nov. 13-19....
Thursday, Nov. 9 Colton - 3 to 6 p.m. – Free Medicare Help – Drop-in for free, impartial help to meet your needs. St. John - 3:30 to 5 p.m. – Tinker Tech Time – Grades K-5 are invited to meet monthly at the school for a variety of activities including Snap Circuits, Lego Mindstorms, Lego building, Code-a-Pillar, Ozobots, Magnetix and more. Tekoa - 4 to 5 p.m. – Ladies Craft Circle – Enjoy an afternoon filled with crafts and friendship, and learn something new. Albion - 5 to 7:30 p.m. – Knit Night and Fireside Chats – Learn to knit, finish a...
Pasha Pavlo Rudenko, left, founder of Tribotex, stands with Vladimir Borisov, Tribotex research and development engineer, at the company's display in Tampa, Florida. A local company was named a winner of a Defense Innovation Award at the 2017 Defense Innovation Technology Acceleration Challenge in Tampa, Fla. Held Oct. 3-5, the technology-prospecting event draws representatives from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, NASA, Air Force Space Command, Department of Energy and more. Tribotex,...
Pasha Pavlo Rudenko works in his garage laboratory in Colfax Tuesday, March 7. It's game on for a Colfax man with a new product to aid old cars in longer use. Pasha Pavlo Rudenko, who earned a doctorate degree from WSU in materials science in 2014, started his company Tribotex in 2010. Its product is Carboss, a self-forming carbon coating which aims to reduce metal wear in engines. The idea came out of research Rudenko did as a graduate student at WSU. “We found something that would be wrong n...