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     Andrew Motes was born in Newport, Arkansas in 1954  -- the son of poor,
white sharecroppers.  He graduated from high school in 1972 in a small rural
community called Tuckerman.  In 1973 he entered the US Air Force.  After
graduating from Electronics Technical School at Chanute Air Force Base,
Illinois he was assigned to Blytheville Air Force Base, Arkansas.  There he
served as Missile Electronic Equipment Specialist for the Strategic Air
Command's 97th Bomb Wing.
     In August 1974 Airman Motes received an Air Force Scholarship to the
University of Arkansas.  He graduated from the U. of A. in 1978 with a BS
degree in Electrical Engineering and was then commissioned as a Lieutenant
in the U.S. Air Force.  He was then assigned to the Air Force Institute of
Technology (AFIT) at Dayton, Ohio to study Electrical Engineering with a
specialty in Aircraft and Spacecraft Navigation, Guidance and Control.  He
graduated from this institution in 1979 and received his Master's Degree in
Electrical Engineering.
     After graduation at AFIT Lieutenant Motes was then assigned to Hill Air
Force Base, Utah as Officer-In-Charge of the Range Instrumentation Unit and
then the Munitions Test Unit.  In these positions he was responsible for
testing all the bombs and rocket motors in the Air Force Inventory.
     From June 1982 to May 1983 Captain Motes was assigned to the US Air
Force Academy, Colorado as Instructor of Astronautical Engineering.  From May
1983 to May 1984 he served as Director of Astronautical Engineering
Laboratories at the Academy.
     After receiving a scholarship to the University of New Mexico to study
for his doctorate in Electrical Engineering with a specialty in Lasers and
Electro-optics he was transferred to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
He attended school full-time for two and a half years and was then reassigned
to the US Air Force Academy to do full time optics research.  In the spring
of 1987 he received his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering.
     Major Motes served as Deputy Director of Lasers and Aerospace Mechanics
at the Air Force Academy's Frank J. Seiler Research Laboratories until the
fall of 1990.  He was then assigned to the Air Force Space Division in Los
Angeles, California.  For a short time he was assigned as Optics and
Controls Project Manager for the Starlab program.  He was then assigned as
Chief of the Engineering Division for the SDI (Star Wars) Surveillance
Satellite Program.  He served in this position until July of 1992.
     In July 1992 Dr. Motes requested and was granted separation from the Air
Force (He felt his son needed a more stable environment to grow up in).  In
August 1992 he became Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at John
Brown University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas where he currently works.  He
continues to hold the rank of Major in the Air Force Ready Reserves.  He is
also Vice President of the Educational Software Cooperative Inc., an
organization of educational software authors that he created.
     Dr. Motes has been awarded the Air Force Science and Engineering Award
for Engineering Achievement, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal three
times, and the Air Force Commendation Medal.  In 1983 and 1984 he was
selected as one of the Outstanding Young Men of America.  He has published
one book, 16 scientific journal articles, and holds a patent for a read/write
compact laser disk.  He also wrote School-Mom, the award winning children's
educational software used by schools all over the world and sold in retail
stores in North America.
     Dr. Motes currently lives in Siloam Springs, Arkansas with his wife Judy
and their son Robert who is 10 years of age.  He is attempting to make a
living writing educational software -- a not-so-easy task considering the
low registration rates for educational shareware.