+willcall Posted March 9, 2005 Posted March 9, 2005 Sorry, GEMs, I'm still overbooked on the 16th and won't make it. W. Quote
+GEM's Posted March 11, 2005 Author Posted March 11, 2005 ONLY 5 DAYS until the first pitch. Wed 3/16 8 - 5 GO West, WeightMan, Team Misguided Thu 3/17 8 - 5 geoducky(9-3), GO West, WeightMan, Team Misguided Fri 3/18 8 -3 geoducky(9-3), GO West, MarcusArelius, Team Misguided Updated...can anyone else help? Are these times correct for everyone? Go West is putting together a nice spreadsheet schedule. All volunteers get a geocaching goodie, and free admission into the Tech Vendor area plus a free geocaching NCCE Cache to place after the conference. Quote
Team Misguided Posted March 11, 2005 Posted March 11, 2005 I'm a definate no on Wednesday & Thursday. (new job ) Friday is still on the schedule for one half of the team. Quote
+GEM's Posted March 11, 2005 Author Posted March 11, 2005 Wed 3/16 8 - 5 GO West, WeightMan, GEM's Thu 3/17 geoducky(9 - 3), 8 - 5 GO West, WeightMan Fri 3/18 geoducky(9 - 3), 8 - 3 GO West, MarcusArelius, Team Misguided Updated Schedule. We have room for more coaches. Did I metion Free Stuff? Quote
+GEM's Posted March 15, 2005 Author Posted March 15, 2005 ONLY 2 MORE DAYS (Counting Today) We could use 2 more coaches Quote
+WeightMan Posted March 15, 2005 Posted March 15, 2005 Speaking for one who has volunteered for two days, yes we could use some more coaches. Quote
+Allanon Posted March 15, 2005 Posted March 15, 2005 I can maybe/probably get Friday off, but I'll have to leave by noon (Dentist appt. @ 1:00)...will that help? Quote
+GEM's Posted March 15, 2005 Author Posted March 15, 2005 (edited) I can maybe/probably get Friday off, but I'll have to leave by noon (Dentist appt. @ 1:00)...will that help? Allanon 8 - 12 on Friday Yep that helps a lot! Edited March 15, 2005 by GEM's Quote
+Allanon Posted March 15, 2005 Posted March 15, 2005 I'll see what I can arrange with the boss tomorrow. I'll let you know. Quote
+GEM's Posted March 15, 2005 Author Posted March 15, 2005 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 Quote
+Allanon Posted March 15, 2005 Posted March 15, 2005 The boss rememberred that he told me to take the whole day off, so as long as I can find the place, I'll be there. Can I dress the way I normally would for caching, or do I have to be presentable? Quote
+Wander Lost Posted March 15, 2005 Posted March 15, 2005 Bad news here, Misguided One has to work Friday. I hope you have enough people to help out. I'm sorry both of us had to bail on you. I really enjoy sharing geocaching with teachers. Quote
+GEM's Posted March 15, 2005 Author Posted March 15, 2005 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? Quote
MarcusArelius Posted March 16, 2005 Posted March 16, 2005 I still will be there Friday. I plan to bring some show & tell stuff along. PDA w/ wireless seems appropriate for the conference. Laptop, Garmin cable for downloads, cache container, geocoin, personal GPS. Don't currently have a travel bug tough. I am also bringing 2 FRS radios, I think those will be useful when we need to inspect the course. Quote
+GEM's Posted March 16, 2005 Author Posted March 16, 2005 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. Quote
+GEM's Posted March 16, 2005 Author Posted March 16, 2005 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! Quote
+Allanon Posted March 17, 2005 Posted March 17, 2005 Reminder, I'm only there from 8-12 on Friday. Got to get my fangs sharpened at 1:00... Quote
+WeightMan Posted March 17, 2005 Posted March 17, 2005 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! Just a note that the TB tags are still unclaimed. Quote
+GEM's Posted March 18, 2005 Author Posted March 18, 2005 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! Quote
Team Misguided Posted March 18, 2005 Posted March 18, 2005 That's great, when GeoDucky called me she sounded like she was having fun and keeping busy. I'm thrilled this is going so well. Quote
+WeightMan Posted March 18, 2005 Posted March 18, 2005 I was there both of the first two days and had a blast. I met lots of cachers who were attending the conference as well as helping out people who had never seen a GPSr before and they went out and found most of the one they hunted. I'm sure we came up with several converts over the two days and there should be even more tomorrow. I did have to learn to use a Maggie, but hey its not all peaches and cream. Quote
+Allanon Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 What a fun morning. I got there a little early and was put straight to work by GEMs... I put on my uniform, learned the ropes about the process and spent the next four hours 'splaining the workings of caching to some very attentive students...I mean teachers. With very few exceptions, everyone seemed to have a good time and as Weightman said, I'm sure we have a few new cachers from the group. It was great to meet GEMs, GeoDucky, GO West and talk again to Marcus (even if he can't remember either my caching or real names )...and thank you for all the great 'parting gifts'. I had a great time. Hopefully I can volunteer again if something similar occurs in the future. Quote
MarcusArelius Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 Now who was that guy that got there just before me... It was great to finally meet GEMS, GoWest and GeoDucky, and that other guy. We did get there a little early to relax and get the feel of the place but we had to get right down to business instead. I felt bad for the first lady I "helped". It had been a while since I used a Yellow. But everyone seemed to have fun. I know that I did. Teachers do make good students too! Most grasped the concepts pretty fast. A very well put together event. Props to GEMS. And thanks for the freebies! I wish that I could have stayed after 3PM for the drawing. Quote
+TotemLake Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 Sorry I couldn't make it. I threw out my back today. (I'm hoping to be able to retrieve it soon.) Quote
+WeightMan Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 Sorry I couldn't make it. I threw out my back today. (I'm hoping to be able to retrieve it soon.) Well make up your mind. Do you want to throw it out or do you want to keep it? Quote
+TotemLake Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 I'll take Pains in the back for $50, Alex. Quote
+geoducky Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 Just a quick note to say "it was fun!" My sister got me all signed-up to spend the day with her, of course she bailed something about a "new job" ,yeah sure! But I had fun afterall and now I have some serious swag from the conference, a shirt, hat and a new TB to release. Geoducky Quote
+GO West Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 Great day and Fantastic event! Best part was wandering around the course, giving tips where needed and generally watching folks get initiated to caching. Funny to watch a group of three or four, all walking with eyes fixed on their gps'ers, then - oops! - the signal shifts and they all turn 38 degrees in unison. Congratulations to GEM's for orchestrating such a successful program. Nice meeting and working with geoducky, WeightMan, Allanon, MarcusArelius, and all. I left GEM's with most of the clean-up, though I did clear the course. So now I'm sitting here in my den with 8 slightly used cache boxes. What to do with them? Quote
+Allanon Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 What to do with them? Hmmmmm...let me think... Quote
annodomini Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 A great big THANK YOU to GEMS, GO West, willcall, WeightMan, Team Misguided, geoducky, and MarcusArelius for making the NCCE Geocaching event such a success. So many people came up to me and told me it was so much fun and a great addition to our conference. And . . . we'd love to see it happen again next year! What a team! Quote
+GEM's Posted March 19, 2005 Author Posted March 19, 2005 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) Quote
MarcusArelius Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 Would the winner be the presenter of this session? Quote
+GEM's Posted March 19, 2005 Author Posted March 19, 2005 (edited) Good Work Marcus! Dr. Lynn Lary Instructional Technology Specialist at Lane ESD in Eugene,Oregon was our winner and here's her pic Edited March 20, 2005 by GEM's Quote
+Fredbear13 Posted March 20, 2005 Posted March 20, 2005 It was sure nice meeting everyone at the Conf. You guys did a great job... Fredbear13 Quote
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