Hi all, I hope your week is going well. For folks who were unable to attend the technology committee meeting, here is a summary of the discussion. 1. TRIO Day - I have made arrangements to have 6 AV kits available for TRIO Day small-group sessions. I will send a short reminder to those folks shortly before the event. - We have secured a vendor (American Audience Audiovisual) for the TRIO Day ballroom AV. I've provided them with a list of our needs, when we'd like them to set up and take down the AV, and what hours we will need on-site support. - Program registration closed on December 9th as the hotel room block is full. There are around 50 people on the waitlist as well. We have 9 college fair registrations (college fair registration is still open). 2. Annual Conference - Conference planning is coming along. I met with Heather to go over the registration form and I will be making registration updates for this year's conference. I hope to have a draft ready for folks to review in time for the January board meeting or shortly after (I will not be at that meeting, as it overlaps with my state conference). We are still on track to open early bird registration on January 22. - Conference AV arrangements are in progress. The hotel is helping us with ballroom AV arrangements. I'm working on finding out if we'll have any guest speakers via Zoom. - We will need all 8 AV kits at the conference. In addition to using them for the event, this gives us a chance to review the equipment and make sure that nothing is lost or broken. - Sarah suggested we keep a record of when the AV kits are being used so that we know how old the equipment is and we'll have a record of when something breaks down. I will start putting together a document in Box Drive and track down what information I can find since we purchased the equipment. 3. New NEOA website - I have not had much time to work on the new website as I have been working on other event planning. I will pick it up again later in the winter or in the spring. - I have most of the static pages (pages with just pictures and text) mostly done. I still have a handful of updates to make, mostly regarding this year's events. I am trying to keep both the old and new website up to date so that the new website will have the latest updates when we're ready to launch. - Action item / request for help: I do need some helping figuring out how to set up some online forms with payment options for membership and event registration. Assuming we can get those working, we are still on track to launch the new website on September 1, 2025. 4. Other - I would like to recruit a technology committee co-chair to serve with me for the 2025-2026 year. This will make the last part of the transition smoother, and I can start handing off access to things and provide training and mentoring, etc. I am planning on holding the next technology committee meeting in late January or early February. In the meantime, feel free to reach out if there is anything I can do for you. I hope you have a nice holiday season. Casey --- Casey O. Henderson (he/him/his) Technology Coordinator Maine Educational Opportunity Center and Maine Educational Talent Search 308 Chadbourne Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5713 Tel: (207) 581-3707 Email: casey.henderson@maine.edu