December'09/ January '10 Educational Opportunites

I was thinking that the December/January time would be a little on the slow side with educational opportunities, but I was wrong - not that unusual.

I just learned about a great seminar on Thursday December 17 at Bath Supply, Bath, Pa. "Commercial Condensing Boilers."

This is all the rage with the energy crunch so you see more and more choices for this technology. To boot-Bath Supply is serving dinner at 4:30PM with the seminar to start at 5:30PM. I'm going to try to attend. In fact we are going to move our officers meeting to that very location to take advantage of some training and get some chapter business accomplished.

Although not all the details are finalized, the upcoming EKA training day on January 9 ,2010promises to be an outstanding event. The Sullivan trail chapter is hosting this training and the topics will be "Commercial condensing boilers "and "Electrical fundamentals and beyond". I really think that this would be a nice weekend to take the family up to Corning, NY. They can tour the wonderful glass museum while you are getting some real training. There are other sight to see in Corning, also. You also get to hang out with some great pros in the field. I usually learn the most just by listening to them.

That brings us to the LVRSES monthly meeting on Thursday January 14, 6PM @Bethlehem Area Vo Tech. If you always wanted to know about VFD's but were afraid to ask here is your opportunity to get acquainted with this well established technology.Jeoff Bridges from Honeywell will be with us for the evening to speak about Variable Frequency Drives.

I don't want to forget to mention that the Heat Pump Training class is continuing. We are moving through the chapters on heat pumps. On Thursday January 28 we will review chapters 15 & 16 from volume one of the training manuals. If you want to join in with us you can contact Mike or Wayne and we will be happy get you started.

Please take some time to consider the importance of learning (and relearning). Our industry and you future depends upon it.

Why not start your 2010 off right and start to take advantage of ways to learn and improve your skills. You can't loose by investing some time and training in yourself