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Volunteers Needed! Can YOU help us out? Are You Missing

We are looking for volunteers to help us promote and represent the Out on Potential
amazing opportunities in land surveying at the following events. Please Clients?
consider donating a few hours of your time.
Did you know our
Broome County “Find a Surveyor”
Broome Tioga BOCES search feature is our
Event: Land Surveying Presentation/Demo most visited page on our website? Help the
Date/Time: To be arranged with school public find you on our website by making
We are looking for volunteers to present opportunities in land surveying sure your member profile is up to date. Login
to the students in the Heavy Equipment/Construction program and to verify your address, add the type of work you perform and add your
possibly provide a demonstration with surveying tools and technology. photo or company logo. If you need assistance, contact our office. We’re
We have various PowerPoint presentations and videos available for use happy to help!
and printed materials you can bring to the school.
Did you know NSPS has a Stolen
Saratoga County
WSWHE BOCES Equipment Registry?
Event: CTE Works Career Exploration Event You can view the current registry at
Location: Saratoga Springs City Center https://www.nsps.us.com/StolenEquipment
Date: December 18, 2025 To report stolen equipment, please provide the following
We are looking for volunteers to set up an information table and be information by email to trisha.milburn@nsps.us.com:
available to discuss the opportunities in land surveying with students. 1. Description of Instruments including Serial Number
We will provide all the materials for the table. Ideally, it would be great
to bring along some surveying technology to show off to the kids as well. 2. Location where equipment was stolen, include nearest
Call us for more details! Town and State
3. Date stolen
Otsego County 4. Contact person to provide information, include phone and/or email
Boy Scouts: Surveying Merit Badge
Event: Merit Badge Madness 2026 This fantastic program is a weekly
Location: SUNY Oneonta Zoom meeting featuring live Q&A’s on
Date: January 3, 2026 your favorite surveying topics. Every
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm Monday, the forum is hosted by a
We are looking for volunteers to attend this in-person event to assist the rotating series of guest speakers who are among the best in the surveying
scouts with obtaining their Surveying Merit Badge. Even if you’ve never business. It serves as a weekly meeting room for anyone wanting to learn
been involved with the scouts previously, this is a great opportunity to more. Whether you are a freshman in college or a 50-year Professional
interact with the kids. Volunteers should be licensed. They will help Land Surveyor, we all have questions or we want help with that second
the scouts complete various tasks related to surveying techniques, opinion: https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
instruments, maps, and deeds to earn their Surveying Merit Badge.
A bi-weekly virtual roundtable
Interested in helping us out? discussion to go over a chapter

We’ll provide everything you need to get started! Email amber@nysapls. at a time from our “Surveying
org for more information. Also, be sure to check out our amazing Bibles”. The goal is for
resources for school events, scouting events and tradeshows here. everyone to read a chapter of a book and then have a discussion.
All sessions are recorded and saved on the Wisdom Wednesdays
Committee Updates website. https://wisdomwednesdays.xyz/
Did you know ALL of our committees have a webpage with meeting
minutes and other member resources? We post brief monthly updates
for all committees in our HQ news feature. But if you’re looking for
more details, visit our website committee pages and see what they’ve
been up to!

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