NERTEC

[eupho]

Where and when will the NERTEC be held?

[Michael Bush]

All the regionals have been set and it is fine to post the details. I don't remember them myself.

[Scott Roeder]

Figured I would chime in on this conversation.

The greater Edinburg/McAllen/Pharr/Mission area is is over 500,000 people within a 20 mile radius served by 2 commercial airports.

UT Rio Grande Valley is a Division 1 university with almost 29,000 students. We have a brand new Performing Arts Facility with a 1000 seat auditorium and four rehearsal halls that is just fantastic.

I think this would qualify as a major metropolitan area and a major university.

If the travel times are a concern, we are 3.5 hours from San Antonio, 4.5 hours south of Austin, 5.5 hours from Houston, and 8 hours south of DFW. The last two ITEA regional conferences from Edinburg were 11 and 13 hour commutes for the students at UTRGV. There are 4 universities in south Texas that are very excited about the conference being held down here because they won't have to make massive trips as they have done in the past to attend ITEA regional conferences.

[KentEshelman]

Hi Folks,

Here is the complete list of 2017 regional ITEA conferences:

Great Plains
Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
Christian Carichner, Jesse Orth, and Keven Sanders, hosts
March 2-4

Mid-South
University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR)
Benjamin Pierce, host
March 23-25

Midwest
Ball State University (Muncie, IN)
Matthew Lyon, host
TBD

Northeast
Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
Justin Benavidez, host
April 28-30

Northwest
Washington State University (Pullman, WA)
Chris Dickey and Sarah Miller, hosts
April 21-23

Rocky Mountains
University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO)
Jason Byrnes, host
March 24-25

South Central
University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley (Edinburg, TX)
Scott Roeder and Kenneth Drobnak, hosts
March 16-18

Southeast
University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL)
Jeremy Crawford and Cale Self, hosts
March 9-11

Southwest
University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Matt Tropman and Mark Nelson, hosts
March 17-18

All the best,
Kent Eshelman
ITEA Regional Conferences Coordinator

[Michael Bush]

Thank you, Kent!

[KevinMadden]

Hi Folks,

Great Plains
Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
Christian Carichner, Jesse Orth, and Keven Sanders, hosts
March 2-4

Northeast
Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
Justin Benavidez, host
April 28-30

Oh Boy, Iowa State what fun (I kid, Your hall is fantastic, I loved playing there for CBDNA)

also glad to see my original alma mater is keeping itself more relevant to the tuba community than it was when I was there.

[Billy M.]

I hope I can make SERTEC this coming year since ITEC is out of the question.