21st Century's Trident Technology Donates Additional ProMags to Texas A&M University System.

LAS VEGAS -- Restored Funding Enables Agency to Continue to Train Thousands of First Responders

21st Century Technologies, Inc.'s (OTCBB:TFCT) wholly-owned investment portfolio company, Trident Technologies, Inc., has made additional contributions of ProMag Quick Frames to the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) for use in training first responders from public and private sectors. President Bush signed legislation on October 18, 2004 that will send $20 million in funding to TEEX through the Department of Homeland Security (http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/101904grant.php).

TEEX programs and facilities allow supervisors and first responders to train for rapid deployment of the ProMag and SeaPatch to deal with HazMat discharges from ruptures, punctures and other containment penetrations on ferrous containment surfaces under realistic conditions.

Jim Branch, President of Trident, commented, "Training is aimed at front line personnel who are both the first line of defense and who have the highest level of risk from toxic exposures. This donation is part of our commitment to provide practical, `hands on' experience for first responders, whether or not their department or agency has purchased the patch. We are delighted to continue our association with TEEX in this way and hope to build on this relationship in the future."

TEEX is home to full-scale disaster simulators on railroads (http://www.seapatch.net/aande.htm), industrial refineries, ocean-going vessels and cities. Construction is currently underway on a pipeline disaster training facility under the auspices of the Office for Domestic Preparedness.

The agency's training facilities are world-renowned and trains first responders of every discipline from all over the United States and more than 40 countries each year. According to a recent report the agency has already sent 34,000 students through its courses this year. For more information, please go to: https://teexweb.tamu.edu/index.cfm.

Trident Technologies manufactures and distributes SeaPatch and ProMag magnetic-powered leak and rupture sealing devices, designed for application on ferrous surfaces such as: hulls of ships, railroad tank cars, storage tanks, pipelines or other containment vessels. For more information, please go to www.seapatch.net.

21st Century Technologies is a Business Development Company, operated pursuant to the Investment Companies Act of 1940. It holds various enterprises as investments and seeks to grow companies in which it has an interest.

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