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hailing across the country to join our annual celebration.
Attendee registrations included a dynamic combination of
professional land surveyors and engineers, CEOs, field crew,
office staff, sales team members, volunteers, students, college
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hours of continuing education throughout the event, with
a total of 35 programs presented from Wednesday – Friday.
On Tuesday, the NYSAPLS Board of Directors held a dinner
and meeting that evening, followed by a fundraiser reception
for the LS PAC. On behalf of your PAC committee, thank you
to all that attended the reception and participated in the silent
auction. A total of $3,280 in PAC donations were received
during the conference.
On Wednesday, January 17th, our
official “opening” day, attendees
gathered mid-morning for an opening
Welcome Keynote Presentation
featuring special guest Bob Akins,
LS, from the National Society of
Professional Surveyors. After lunch we
By Amber Carpenter, NYSAPLS Managing Director held our annual awards ceremony to
honor the 2024 scholarship winners
and welcome the newest licensees to the
NYSAPLS 65th Annual profession. Congratulations to all for your accomplishments.
Surveyors Conference and Exhibition In addition, we presented the NYSAPLS’ Pillars of Excellence
January 17-19, 2024 Awards. A listing of scholarship recipients, new licensees and
Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, NY
all conference contest winners can be found on the next page.
On behalf of the members Our annual student networking day was also held Wednesday
of the conference committee afternoon. Students and licensees were paired up during lunch
and staff, thank you to and attended the awards luncheon together as an icebreaker.
all that who attended the Student lunches were sponsored by the NYSAPLS Auxiliary
NYSAPLS 65th Annual (Wed) and Nassau Suffolk Civil Engineers (Thurs). Participants
Surveyor’s Conference and spent the afternoon together visiting exhibits and attending
Exhibition at the Turning
Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York. I also would like educational sessions. Thank you to all that participated! We
look forward to this program growing each year.
to personally thank anyone who came up to the registration
desk or stopped me in the hallway to say hello to me or my On Wednesday evening, we gathered for a grand welcome
staff. I admit the stress leading up the event (and during our reception in the exhibit hall with our vendors, sponsored
first opening day) can be a little more than overwhelming by Maine Technical Source and Control Point Associates.
at times, but we sincerely look forward to seeing all of you, Attendees enjoyed delicious fare and cocktails while networking
helping out where we can and watching our members and with their peers and viewing the latest and greatest survey
friends enjoying the conference. technologies and business services offered by our vendors. Our
friend, Johnny Miller, from On the Spot Photos was on hand
Over 700 conference regi- to take photos of attendees. Some wonderful photos of our
strants attended this year’s members and exhibitors were taken. They can be viewed at:
event, including a sold-out https://otsphotos.com/nysapls_conference_photos/
tradeshow with 39 companies
utilizing over 45 exhibit booths A big “Thank You” to our generous sponsors and exhibitors for
to showcase their products supporting our event!
and services. Attendees
traveled from all areas of continued on page 16
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