My name is Jim Harrington
and I graduated from Loyalist College in 1969.
I grew up in a time when nuclear war was always
present, a possibility. The first people were being launched into space.
That left me with the desire to learn how everything worked,
which was to get into research and chemistry sets and figure it all out.
Loyalist taught me how to learn.
From there I went on to different universities and colleges to learn different things.
In 1980, I was in space physics in Ottawa
doing the high-flux telescope for the Ulysses Spacecraft.
It was launched from the space shuttle. It was shot towards
Jupiter and a slingshot from Jupiter was to send it towards the sun.
And another slingshot was to send it off into deep space and polar regions.
In 1981, I started A.G.O. Environmental. Its purpose was for astrophysics, geophysics and oceanographics.
A.G.O. Those are all of the fields I worked in. We manufacture portable winch systems for mining, military and sciences.
Underwater cameras, lights, lasers, pressure housings for a variety of groups.
Our equipment are used for that and a lot of different applications and purposes all over the world.
It's very satisfying.
You have to be persistent about an idea. The first time you do it, it may not work, but you keep looking and eventually, you'll get there.
