Over 300 sailing education leaders throughout the country participated in the 2017 National Sailing Programs Symposium (NSPS) and the US Sailing National Con...

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Austin is a surprisingly perfect place

for the NSPS for a couple of reasons

number one as a college town it's got

ton of entertainment and surprisingly

it's a very water focused region

national sailing program symposium and

the sailing Leadership Forum are

conferences that u.s. sailing so that

helps organize and what we do in these

words in these events is we bring these

experts together so it's three days of

subject matter experts training sail

training leaders in everything from

employee management to fixin outboard

engines not only is it great

professional development but it's the

single biggest networking tool that

sailing professionals have this is the

most important thing that us sailing

does in terms of bringing the programs

together my favorite part of being here

at NSPS is really seeing my friends we

email and talk throughout the entire

year but this is a week that we always

look forward to being able to come

together share the joys that we've

experienced throughout the year and our

programs and also share the struggles

and talk about it and face to face and

really making that human connection

between the different programs across

the country what's great here is that

even within the vendors you have a

variety you have online education

represented you have boat vendors you

really get a full-scale representation

of what's out there in a training and

education space and you get to see not

only what's happening now but what's

going to be happening in the next few

years you should come to NSPS because it

is one of the single most fun social

events it's an excellent professional

development opportunity it's a great way

to network with people in the industry

and you get to try out new boats and be

out on the water in the middle of

January most of all for me I'm

completely energized when

to these conferences when I leave I go

back and I can implement the things I've

learned

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