Environmental Tectonics Corporation's The NASTAR(R) Center Announces Winner of Student Patch Design Contest Outreach Effort

SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Environmental Tectonics Corporation's (OTC Bulletin Board: ETCC) ("ETC" or the "Company") the National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR(®)) Center congratulates today the winner of the NASTAR Student Patch Design Contest, Tatsuya Arai, a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Tatsuya's design has become the new Official Patch for The NASTAR Center's Suborbital Scientist-Astronaut Training Program, debuting this week, January 12-13th, 2010.

The NASTAR Student Patch Design Contest, held last fall, is part of ongoing an outreach effort for students and teachers to engage in hand-on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) principles, as well as to facilitate a better understanding aerospace topics such as the emerging opportunities in commercial suborbital science. Students entered for a chance to have their design become the official patch of The NASTAR Center's new Suborbital Scientist-Astronaut Training Program and win prizes that included an Official NASTAR flight suit with the winning patch sewn on, 30 Patches of their design, website promotion and a $500 dollar cash award.

The contest winner, Tatsuya Arai, a student at MIT, said, "It is a great honor for my patch to have been selected as the official NASTAR scientist patch! The patch design consists of the earth (protons and neutrons) and flying spacecrafts (electrons) to represent suborbital flights (and science). The multiple spacecrafts in the logo represent the near reality of a continuous stream of suborbital flights." The design was selected for its simplicity and the iconic integration of science and space in a format that remained consistent with previous NASTAR Center patches.

Dozens of entries were submitted ranging from elementary to graduate students from around the world. The winner along with the top 20 entries is predominantly displayed on www.nastarcenter.com/contest-winner.php. Brienna Henwood, Manager of Space and Research Programs at The NASTAR Center, commented, "The amount of positive feedback from students, parents, and teachers on this contest was overwhelming. We had a hard time selecting just one winner! Because of the response, we are planning on another contest soon."

About The NASTAR Center

The National AeroSpace Training And Research Center (NASTAR(®)) Center (www.NASTARcenter.com) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Environmental Tectonics Corporation. The NASTAR Center houses a variety of state-of-the-art equipment and professional staff to support the training and research needs of the aerospace community, including military aviation (fixed and rotary wing), civil aviation (fixed and rotary wing), space travel (government and private) and research support and data collection. The NASTAR(®) Center's equipment and programs are highly modular and flexible and can accommodate a wide range of aerospace training and research requirements

ETC was incorporated in 1969 in Pennsylvania and last year we celebrated our 40th anniversary. Our core technologies include the design, manufacture and sale of Training Services (TSG) which includes (1) software driven products and services used to create and monitor the physiological effects of flight; (2) high performance jet tactical flight simulation, and; (3) driving and disaster simulation systems, and Control Systems (CSG) which includes: (1) steam and gas sterilization; (2) testing and simulation devices for the automotive industry, and; (3) hyperbaric and hypobaric chambers. Product categories included in TSG are Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) and flight simulators, disaster management systems and entertainment applications. CSG includes sterilizers, environmental control devices and hyperbaric chambers along with parts and service support.

This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are based on ETC's current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about ETC and its subsidiaries that may cause actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

These forward-looking statements include statements with respect to the Company's vision, mission, strategies, goals, beliefs, plans, objectives, expectations, anticipations, estimates, intentions, financial condition, results of operations, future performance and business of the company, including but not limited to, (i) projections of revenues, costs of materials, income or loss, earnings or loss per share, capital expenditures, growth prospects, dividends, capital structure, other financial items and the effects of currency fluctuations, (ii) statements of our plans and objectives of the Company or its management or Board of Directors, including the introduction of new products, or estimates or predictions of actions of customers, suppliers, competitors or regulatory authorities, (iii) statements of future economic performance, (iv) statements of assumptions and other statements about the Company or its business, (v) statements made about the possible outcomes of litigation involving the Company, (vi) statements regarding the Company's ability to obtain financing to support its operations and other expenses, and (vii) statements preceded by, followed by or that include the words, "may," "could," "should," "looking forward," "would," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "plan," or the negative of such terms or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties which are subject to change based on various important factors. Some of these risks and uncertainties, in whole or in part, are beyond the Company's control. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a material difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10K for the fiscal year ended February 27, 2009, in the section entitled "Risks Particular to Our Business." Shareholders are urged to review these risks carefully prior to making an investment in the Company's common stock.

The Company cautions that the foregoing list of important factors is not exclusive. Except as required by federal securities law, the Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.

Contact: Duane D. Deaner, CFO Tel: 215-355-9100 (ext. 1203) Fax: 215-357-4000

ETC - Internet Home Page: http://www.etcusa.com

SOURCE Environmental Tectonics Corporation

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