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Special Events & Activities
Special E v ents & A ctivities

“Map out” your success with our The awards ceremony is being held during the conference
Annual Map Competition! while no other event is going on.
Get your staff involved! The NYSAPLS Annual Map Now, more than ever, we need to come “together” and
Competition is the perfect way to showcase your office’s express our gratitude for the outstanding hard work,
map-making abilities! All maps, including winning entries will be dedication and leadership demonstrated by your peers in the
showcased during our virtual conference for attendee viewing. surveying profession. Please join the event to support your
The contest entry form includes 5 entry categories including: fellow peers and aspiring future leaders.
■ Subdivision Plats
■ Boundary/Cadastral Maps NYSAPLS Officer Installation Ceremony
■ Topographic Maps Thursday, January 27, 12:30pm – 1:30pm (EST)
■ ALTA/NSPS Survey Maps Please join us in welcoming and congratulating the NYSAPLS’
■ Miscellaneous Maps incoming 2022 Executive Officers into their leadership roles.
In addition to the categories listed above, we will ask our
attendees to choose their favorite for our “Viewers’ Choice” NYSAPLS Young Professionals
award! Winning entries will receive an award certificate, Social Event
recognition in the Empire State Surveyor and free entry in the Thursday, January 20, 6:00pm – 7:00pm
national map contest administered by NSPS. The NYSAPLS Young Professionals Committee invites you
to attend their YP Social Event. Take some time to relax with
Silent Auction to Benefit the Shaw the Young Professionals, with a virtual networking happy
Scholarship Fund & LSPAC hour! Grab your favorite beverage and join them for a fun
Wednesday, January 19, 8:00am – Friday, January 28, 12:00pm evening of story sharing, game playing and just good

Our scholarship auction has become a wonderful way to raise conversations about Land Surveying! The YP Social Event
funds annually for the Shaw Fund. The Arthur D. Shaw is free to attend.
Memorial Fund, Inc. was established in 1986 to encourage Diversity in Land Surveying:
and promote land surveying education through scholarships,
lectures, seminars and research. In its 30+ year history, the A Panel Discussion
Shaw Fund has awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships. Moderated by Ashley Metz of the NYSAPLS Young Professionals
Committee
The LSPAC serves as the sole vehicle through which NYSAPLS Friday, January 28, 12:30pm – 1:30pm (EST)
makes contributions to candidates for state office. It allows N/A for CE
members to join together and speak with one powerful voice in
an election. It raises visibility of our profession to lawmakers Join the YP Committee for a discussion about the unique
across New York. It also ensures needed access to the top paths some surveyors have taken in their path to this
profession, including struggles they faced along the way
decision-makers in government so that surveyors have the finding surveying as a profession, becoming a surveyor, and
opportunity to shape laws and regulations affecting their license what we can learn going forward from these obstacles they
and profession.
have overcome. This discussion will focus on different stories
Be sure to check out an abundance of donated auction items from a variety of Land Surveyors that promote surveying as a
on display during the conference. diverse place not only in the jobs we perform, but also within
The online auction will be available Wednesday (1/19) at the the surveyors in the profession. The goal of this discussion
opening of our virtual event through Friday (1/28) at 12:00pm. would be to allow the panelists to tell their stories about how
Be sure to bid… and check back often to be sure someone they found surveying, their decision on making a career out of
did not out-bid you! it, struggles they faced getting into the industry, struggles they
faced to become licensed, and the way they handled any
Awards Ceremony & New Licensee workplace discrimination. Some takeaways from the
Presentation discussion should include learning barriers that bar people
from entering surveying, how to move forward to open new
Thursday, January 20, 12:30pm – 1:30pm (EST) paths for a career in Land Surveying, and starting a
Please join us for our annual awards ceremony. Included in the discussion between surveyors about the importance of
ceremony, the newest faces in the surveying community will be spreading the word about this profession.
honored including college level scholarship awards, the new
licensee presentation and the Pillars of Excellence awards.
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