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Thank you to all who attended the time and creativity leading up to this event. I am privileged
NYSAPLS 62nd Annual Conference to work with a couple AMAZING ladies who put their heart
& Exhibition. This year’s event was like and soul into their work, and it shows in everything they do.
no other conference we’ve hosted in the Thank you, Heather Schultz and Sharon O’Brien!
past. With our members’ health and National Surveyors Week
safety our number one priority this year,
we decided in the early fall to cancel our
traditional in-person event and begin
working on a virtual event.
The month of March holds a special place in history for our
From a staff perspective, I’m really thankful our board and licensees as we celebrate National Surveyors Week. National
committees allowed us the opportunity to make the “switch” Surveyors Week is celebrated on the 3rd full week of March
when we did. Pulling off this scale of an event was much more annually (this year, March 21-27, 2021). It encourages our
work than any of us had imagined. After an initial research members and fellow land surveying professionals across the
period of looking at what other associations had done, asking nation to promote and publicize the importance of your
our members what they preferred and reaching out to our profession. You may have seen email message reminders from
longtime exhibitors and sponsors for their input, it was clear our office, information posted on our website and on the
we were not going to just host another series of webinars. Our NSPS website, but my question is… how will YOU celebrate?
members rely on our annual conference to network with other
professionals, view the latest technologies and gain insight Will you submit photos in our photo contest? Organize a
from the educational lectures offered. geocashing event? Obtain a proclamation from your local
town/city? Maybe you’ll get involved with a local Boy Scout
I’m proud of the event our education and conference troop and lend a hand in achieving their survey merit badge?
committees worked so hard to pull together. Please turn to
page 16 to view our event highlights. If you haven’t already, For more ideas, be sure to download the Surveyors Week
please complete our online post-conference survey. Be sure to volunteer kit! NSPS has posted a “National Surveyors Week
tell us what you liked about the conference and where you feel Volunteer Kit” on their website, www.nsps.us.com, which
we could improve. It will only take a couple minutes, but you explains step-by-step how to:
will be helping to mold the future of our annual event. The • Request a proclamation
survey can be found here: • Talk to kids about surveying
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/nysapls-2021conf
• Get involved with GPS
A Very Special Thanks • Help a local Boy Scout earn the surveying merit badge
I cannot let you turn the page without first acknowledging • Get a Trig-Star competition started in your area
the hours upon hours of volunteered time our hard-working
education and conference committees lent to our staff I’d love to hear your stories and include them in a future issue of
in preparation of our annual conference. Our education the Empire State Surveyor. Please feel free to email me at amber@
committee did a tremendous job of finding a team of nysapls.org with your stories and pictures. If you’d like more
professional land surveying experts to lead our education information on National Surveyor’s Week, visit our website,
sessions this year. Thank you to Bill Eggers, Dan Marvin, www.nysapls.org or the NSPS website, www.nsps.us.com.
Jeremy Thompson and Tom Cerchiara for your efforts in Thank you, as always, for your support!
putting together a fantastic education lineup. Our conference
committee did an outstanding job of working through all the
various moving parts to create a one-of-a-kind conference
experience. Thank you to Ken Stigner, Howie Johannessen,
Brian Magee, Nick Burgher, Scott Gillis, Mike Bogardus Amber Carpenter
and Greg Koester for your time and energies! I’d also like to Managing Director
sincerely thank my wonderful co-workers for their invaluable

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