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Habu! iTrax Foxtail Team Geogeeks Others? Groundspeak will be sending their new staff memer in marketing to the conference! Please join our planning discussion on this wiki: http://necccaching.wikispaces.com/

I went to court today. Ronnie Plead Guilty. Case closed. Ronnie is now in Jail for approximately 2 years.

Yahoo! iTrax and Geogeeks! I'm hoping you will review the Portland and Seattle threads and take peek at the idea for this conference. I was in Philly, Seattle & New Orleans as well. But have only coordinated this type of activity for our local regional conferences with 2-3,000 participants. This year the NECC conference chairs saw how popular it was and asked if I could put a team together to organize a similar activity for NECC in San Diego. I also have confirmation from Bernie Dodge (WebQuest creator) that he'll help us too! Currently we need to find GPS units...I'll have about 40..I think we'll need 100. I also need local cachers to set a course within walking distance of the Convention. (ie. get waypoints, permission to place for the duration of the conference, hints, Cache titles) Possibly an advanced course for real geocachers. Ususally these are temporary caches. And the Biggy is volunteers to man the booth, I shoot for 4 cachers in 4 hour shifts although most like to stay all day once they do it once. We'll have a booth near the ISTE Booth, in the middle of the action....I'm thinking every participant will have a ticket at registration to encourage them to stop by our booth to play and win free prizes. Thoughts? This is getting Exciting!

Start thinking about this opportunity mark your calendars...more info soon. Check out the same event in Seattle and Portland The NECC conference is the largest Educational Technology Conference in the World!

WOW! What a great group of Cachers in Portland! In all 6 Portland cachers evangelized the fun of Geocaching to over 2,000 teachers from across the great northwest. doodlecat bought, labled and assembled all of the caches and even a few extras! doodlecat & pdxmarathonman set the course the Saturday before the conference fractal & pdxmarathonman manned the booth all day every day! charliewhiskey manned the booth every afternoon doodlecat manned the booth manned the booth all day on Wed & Fri Mountain Mule stopped by and helped inbetween sessions throughout the conference. & Soup stopped by the booth with his little souplet for encouragement! It was an honor to meet them all! & a Huge Thank you to Groundspeak for their generous support! We'll be in San Diego on the 4th of July and Spokane next year. More info on both soon.

Headed to Portland! Stop our booth and say hi. Here's the details..special thanks to doodlecat and pdxmarathonman for their hard work to date! Please do not disturb the caches but you can help one of the 3,500 people looking for them around Portland. Booth set up up tonight and open at 8 am tomorrow, we don't expect many cachers until later tomorrow and Thursday.

I have created a page including a description with tasks defined. You'll find links to all cachers that have expressed interest. In addtion, we have a link to review the volunteer work schedule.. This is gonna be a hoot and the volunteers will get some free stuff.

NCCE & Geocaching Take a look at this document on a wiki called Writely.com for more planning details. It's a slick tool for collaborative online document editting. I'm using this tool to put this year's Geocaching Event @ NCCE together. Join us!

We found last year that it was nice to have 4 volunteers at the booth at all times from 8-4 each day while shifts from 8-12 and 12-4 seemed to work best. 13 cachers considering: Bazzle Soup Man fractal pdxmarathon charliewhiskey Palm Grunt Herr Fritz Mountain Mule doodlecat geodonkeys Stump Blade mattandlaura It's time for a schedule. What time slots works best for you? 2/8 8-12 12-4 2/9 8-12 12-4 2/10 8-12 12-4 Did I miss anyone?

I got the Free Geocaching giveaways today. The first 20 volunteers that work for at least 4 hours will receive this free shirt! The first 10 volunteers that work at least one full day will receive a shirt (above) and a free official Geocaching container (Decon or Ammo can) complete with official sticker. The first 5 volunteers that work at least two days will receive a shirt (above) a container (above) and an official State Geocaching GeoCoin (either 2004 Washington, MIGO Michagan, GOWT Tennessee, 2004 Pennsylvania, or Canada) Random additional prizes will be awarded! Join the FUN...Come to Portland! Who do we have so far? And what prize are you hoping to claim?

Ronnie is in Custody...again. Here's his history: 10/31/2003 01:30 PM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 CASE ISSUED-SUMM/ARRAIGN DEF FTA, BW ORDERED 04/26/2004 01:30 PM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 ARRAIGNMENT - BENCH WARRANT ARRAIGNED 05/13/2004 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE HELD 05/19/2004 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 OMNIBUS HEARING CONTINUED 06/01/2004 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION- PRESIDING JUDGE CDPJ OMNIBUS HEARING CONTINUED 06/01/2004 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION- PRESIDING JUDGE CDPJ CONTINUANCE HELD 06/10/2004 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION- PRESIDING JUDGE CDPJ JURY TRIAL CONTINUED 06/15/2004 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 OMNIBUS HEARING CONTINUED 06/17/2004 01:00 PM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 OMNIBUS HEARING CONTINUED 06/17/2004 01:30 PM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 BAIL HEARING HELD 06/23/2004 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 OMNIBUS HEARING HELD 06/29/2004 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION- PRESIDING JUDGE CDPJ JURY TRIAL DEF FTA, BW ORDERED 01/17/2006 01:30 PM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 BAIL HEARING - BENCH WARRANT HELD 02/02/2006 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION 1 CD1 PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE 03/06/2006 08:30 AM CRIMINAL DIVISION- PRESIDING JUDGE CDPJ JURY TRIAL Stay tuned.

YAHOO! More volunteers! Yes, we still need volunteers!... Any other takers? I spoke with Groundspeak's Nate Irish (Jeremy's Bro) and we'll have some appreciation gifts for all volunteers! You can post here are on the PDX forum.

So far: Mountain Mule Herr Fritz Stump Fractal Soup EleriandBlade are interested. Others? Join the fun!

Last year the NCCE Conference was in Seattle. We had many cachers volunteer their time to help the 3,500 participants learn how to geocache. This year the conference is in Portland. Hey Portland cachers we need your help? Anyone interested in volunteering at the geocache booth during the conference hours 8 - 4 on 2/8, 9 & 10...Last year we did 4 hour shifts and all volunteer got free admission to the exhibit hall featuring the latest greatest equipment in educational technology. Here's the rough plan...we'll be placing 5 temporary caches in and around the general area of the Oregon Convention Center in downtown Portland located at 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Participants at the conference will stop by the both hoping to win a GPSr..to do so they will have to complete the geocaches to be entered into the drawing. You'll check them out a GPSr and show them how to use it. You'll give the basic Geocaching overview and send them on their way. They will return with the GPS and turn in their ticket for the drawing. We also need help setting up the course and checking it throughout the day. We'll need help programming hte waypoints into the expected 100 GPS units. Are you interested? Can you help? What questions do you have? You can contact me at GEMalone@comcast.net.

Ronnie currently has a Bench warrant out for his arrest since June 30, 2004.

I'll be at Rattlesnake @ 8 am....carpool from Graham? I have a 4 bike rack on a 5 seater Tahoe.

The way I understand it Jagsound (Jon Graciano) is friends from church with the brother of the reporter & an old friend of mine as well. Jon referred the reporter to me. I did an on over-the-phone interview. I referred him to Rudy Fyles (Mountain Mule) for pics at Pt. Defiance Park...he is very photogenic and they turned out great! Especially the one on the front page! Cross Roads Coffee Shop is the coffee shop mentioned in the article.

Any NECC Conference Cachers want to meet at the conference and go caching Philly style?

Good Work Marcus! Dr. Lynn Lary Instructional Technology Specialist at Lane ESD in Eugene,Oregon was our winner and here's her pic

NCCE CACHE EVENT STATS: Caches Hidden: 8 Caches Muggled: 0 * Total Finds: 200 + GPSr Used: 70 Biggest Contributor of GPSr: 25 (Playtime) Introduced to Geocaching: 1000’s Geocacher Volunteers: 12 Winners of Garmin GPS 60: 1 ** Cachers that contributed to the success of the event: WeightMan GO West annodomini Geoducky MarcusArelius GTBam Allanon jcar MountainMule Herr Fritz FredBear Plus many others that stopped by * As I was checking the course one evening a homeless person was walking away with my last cache. I called out to him, “Excuse me sir, I was just coming to get that. You’re not in trouble, could you just sit that down and I’ll pick it up?” The man dropped it on the ground and ran away. ** The winner of our drawing from GIJoes (Fed Way) was a geocacher at the conference. She is a teacher who gave a presentation at the conference on geocaching in the classroom. I forgot her name. Thanks to everyone…It was a HUGE success. We had lots of people ask if they could buy the geocaching stuff. Groundspeak may want to sell items at next year’s conference in Portland. (February 8-11)

WOW...We probably showed 100 people how to geocache today! This event has been a huge success! Last day Tomorrow! We don't need anymore volunteers..we had over a dozen cachers come by our booth! Thanks to everyone!

WeightMan and I will give a unactivated TB Tag to the next Geocacher that visits our booth finds all 8 caches and says "Signal Rocks!" Come Join the FUN!

Wed 3/16 8 - 5 GEM's, GO West, WeightMan, Orbiter Dicta Thu 3/17 8 - 5 geoducky(9-3), GO West, WeightMan, Orbiter Dicta Fri 3/18 8 -3 geoducky(9-3), Allanon, GO West, MarcusArelius, Orbiter Dicta TotemLake will try Hmmm Batteries...we may need some. Yikes only 8 more hours.

Dress as you normally would...You'll get a Geocaching t-shirt from Groundspeak and an NCCE baseball cap as our official uniform...and you get to keep them! We'll miss the misguided team and we could really use some more help... Anyone? DiD I mention Free Stuff?

Only one more day! We'll meet at the convention center @ 8 am each morning. We'll be at the main exhibition floor on the upper level. We'll set the course, set up our booth, load the GPS units with coordinates. Ask for the NCCE Geocaching Booth. We have a grand prize of a Garmin GPS 60 to give away on Friday. Travel bugs Geocaching books No DVD's Stuffed frogs Antenna Balls Licence plater holders T- shirts...PluS More! It should be a blast with 4000 teachers expected to attend! Stop by and say hi or better yet stop by and teach someone how to use a GPS