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check-out the items up for bid with our silent auction
fundraisers. Attendees were encouraged to network by
utilizing the video chatting feature on the platform.
We even saw a few group chat rooms created as well as
virtual “happy hours”.

On Thursday, January 21st, attendees gathered
“virtually” at lunchtime to honor the 2021
scholarship winners and welcome the newest
licensees to the profession. Congratulations to all for
your accomplishments. In addition, we presented
the NYSAPLS’ Pillars of Excellence Awards. A
listing of scholarship recipients, new licensees and all
conference contest winners can be found on page 19.

The second of week of our event featured additional
education sessions and “quick fires” as well as a Our silent auctions raised funds for a couple great causes. Conference
attendees bid on a fabulous assortment of gifts donated by members and
special Women’s Summit hosted by the NYSAPLS vendors. The LSPAC auction raised $1050 in donations while the Shaw
Young Professionals (YP) Committee. The Women’s Scholarship Fund auction raised $3,370! Thank to everyone who donated
Summit highlighted a panel of women surveyors items and participated in the bidding. Your efforts are very much appreciated.
(Christine Gayron, LS, Jennifer Reap, LS, Brie Thank you to the 19 individuals who participated in our Annual Map
Strom, LS) moderated by YP Committee member Contest. The conference platform gave all conference registrants a chance
Ashley Metz. Ashley asked the women several to view the maps and vote for their favorite to determine our “Viewer’s
questions surrounding their personal experiences Choice” award. If you did not participate this year, we encourage you to
dealing with diversity in the field of surveying. submit an entry next year. The contest is a great way to display your talent
while promoting the diversity in the services surveyors perform. See page 19
for this year’s winners. While every entry cannot be declared a winner, we
applaud all entries and hope you will continue to submit drawings next year.
We strive to make the conference as rewarding an experience as possible
by providing a unique blend of educational activities, opportunities to
visit with our sponsors and a chance to network with other like-minded
professionals while attempting to maintain costs as much as possible. We
sincerely hope everyone that attended had a great experience and would
greatly value your feedback. If you haven’t already done so, please take a
couple minutes to take our post conference survey.
The survey can be found here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/nysapls-2021conf
A special thank you to our conference & education committee members
who have devoted an enormous amount of time and energy both onsite
and throughout the year to pull off our event successfully:

Conference Committee:
Kenneth Stigner, LS, PP – Committee Chair
Michael Bogardus, LS Howard Johannessen, LS
Nicholas Burgher, LS Gregory Koester, LS
Scott Gillis, LS Brian Magee, LS

Education Committee:
William Eggers, LS – Committee Chair
Thomas Cerchiara, Jr., LS
Daniel Marvin, LS
Jeremy Thompson, LS

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