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The Joint District Gazette

Mark Your Calendars - June 29-July 2, 2014

We’re Less Than Two

Months Away! Excitement is building! The ITE

Midwestern and Western District

Joint Meeting is coming up fast!

Have you registered yet?

Registration rates go up on May

15th

, so save $100 and register

today! To date, we have over 200

attendees representing all 24

states in our two districts, plus 8

states outside our districts and one

Canadian province.

Have you reserved your hotel rooms yet? The room blocks are

already sold out at many conference hotels, and the remaining

room blocks at Howard Johnsons, Alex Johnson and Adoba

Hotels are going fast! Book your rooms today, if you haven’t

already! _____________________________________________________________________________________

Traffic Bowls 2014 The Joint District Meeting will host two

separate Student Traffic Bowls, which

will be held simultaneously on Monday

June 30th at 3:00 p.m. to determine the

representative district teams that then

proceed to the International Traffic

Bowl at the ITE International Meeting

in Seattle. No advanced registration is necessary for Western

District teams, as the first round will be a paper-based, timed

competition to determine the nine teams to move on to the next

round. (Note: Midwestern District teams do have a

registration process. Click here to learn more.)

Watch this great video to get you ready for the Traffic Bowl --

The Road to Seattle Runs Through Rapid City!

Also, there will be a “Joint District Traffic Bowl” competition

that is open to all – professionals, spouses, guests, etc. Teams

will form at the conference! Watch for details to come! _____________________________________________________________________________________

Get Ready to Race around Rapid City! Do you enjoy the TV show “Amazing Race”? Then sign up for

The MiteY Race! The Western District sponsors this annually

as a fundraiser. There are both student and professional

divisions to the race, and each school can enter up to two teams

with two students per team. Registration fee is $50/team. .

More information is found here. This event is Saturday, June

28th

at 3pm, so come to Rapid City early!

Hey Students, Check These Out! Regardless of which district you are from, you are welcome to

participate in these opportunities.

The Midwestern District hosts an annual Student Poster

Competition. On Tuesday, July 1st from 2:00 - 3:30 pm.,

students will present posters based on a project or paper they

have worked on. $400 in cash prizes will be awarded to each of

the top three posters. Registration for the event is free, but

submittal is required before June 1st. For more information see http://www.2014ite.com/students.html on the requirements,

judging criteria, and the registration form. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The Western District hosts

a student design event

called the James H. Kell

Competition starting at

noon on Sunday (June

29th). Students are divided

into teams at the event to

work on a surprise design

challenge for cash prizes.

Registered students will be notified prior to the event where it

will be held. This is a great way to meet students from other

chapters before the conference begins. For more information,

contact WesternITE’s Student Initiatives Chair Danielle

Scharf. _________________________________________________________________

Come in Costume to the

Awards Banquet! Tuesday evening, June 1, you are

invited to attend the Annual Awards

Banquet in costume! Come as a

biker, a president, in western attire,

or some combination of all three!

After the banquet is done and the

awards are presented, we will be

entertained by the “outlaw country”

band The Dirty Shame! (Thinking

of renting a costume in Rapid City? Here are a few options:

Black Hills Comm. Theatre, or Party City.)

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Vendors Coming to Rapid City! We are fortunate to have many regional and

national vendors attending the Joint District

Meeting this year. By bringing together attendees

from twenty-four states, vendors will likely enjoy

increased visibility of their products and services

to prospective clients outside their typical service area. Here is a

list of vendors coming to Rapid City as of this publication date:

Iteris

PTV Group

KLJ

Item

Daktronics

EtherWAN

Polara

Advanced Traffic Products

Qwick Kurb, Inc.

Quality Counts

Sidewinder

WTI

Pelco

Traffic Control Corporation

Trinity Highway

FORTEL

General Traffic Controls

Wavetronix

Ruggedcom

Ennis-Flint

Leotek

Summit Traffic Solutions

Trafficware

Sensys Networks

MaxCell Fabric Innerduct

TAPCO

DigiWest

Rodel Interative Roundabout Solutions

FLIR Intelligent Traffic Solutions

Siemens

Peek/Northwest Signals

Be sure to support our vendors and visit their booths! _____________________________________________________________________________________

Chuckwagon BBQ & Mt. Rushmore Lighting On Monday

evening, we will

be boarding buses

to take us to the

Mount Rushmore

lighting ceremony.

Along the way, we

will stop at the Fort Hays Old West Town Dinner Show for a

real Chuckwagon Dinner. The Supper bell rings loud for:

Sliced Beef simmered in mild BBQ sauce • Baked Chicken •

Chuckwagon Potatoes • Western Baked Beans • Ranch Biscuits

& Honey • Chunky Applesauce • Old-fashioned Spice Cake •

Cowboy Coffee or Tenderfoot Lemonade.

Then from 7:15pm to 8:15pm the Fort Hays Wranglers take the

stage to entertain you with the Black Hills' most popular music

variety show! You will have a foot stompin’, belly shaken’,

good time! Family fun for everyone! Bring your camera and take

some pictures. We wind everything up in time for you to travel

by bus to Mount Rushmore for the evening lighting ceremony!

You will have time to stroll around the National Monument and

experience Mt. Rushmore like no other. We will then load back

onto buses for about a 30 minute trip back to the hotel by about

10:30pm. _________________________________________________________________

Thank You to Our Sponsors! This Joint District Meeting would not be possible without the

gracious support of our sponsors:

Other Sponsoring Organizations include Econolite, Stantec,

Bolton & Menk and RBF Consulting.

There is still time for your company or organization to

sponsor this event. Become a sponsor here.

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