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Golf Outing
The Southeast Chapter of MSPS 2023 Golf Outing at Bruce Hills is on July 19, 2024.
Future Cities
Volunteers from our chapter participated in Judging at the Future Cities Competition in Novi, MI at the Suburban Collection Showplace on January 23, 2023. We judged the award for best use of Land Surveying Practices.
<2024 Best Land Surveying Practices Award Winner DeWitt Middle school
Construction Career Days
Volunteers from our chapter participate in several career day events at local schools. Volunteers speak with the students and answer questions regarding land surveying. They encourage younger generations to participate in surveying and promote a further understanding of what we do.
Michigan Construction Carrer Days at the Operating Engineers 324 Construction Career Center in Howell is May 1-2, 2024
Scholarships
Each year, the Southeast Chapter of MSPS awards a scholarship to two individuals.
This years recipients are:
Hailey Douglas – Michigan Technological University
Niko LaGreca – Ferris State University
Science Olympiad
The Science Olympiad program is a statewide competition for high school and middle school students. Volunteers from our Chapter write questions that test a student's understanding and use of the State of Michigan map and United States Geological Survey (USGS) Quadrangle Topographic Maps. After writing questions and compiling the test, the members check the test for clarity. Volunteers also serve as proctors for the regional exam. The complex questions encourage a thorough understanding of maps and promote map reading.
Trig Star
Trig-Star is an annual competition sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors and the local MSPS sponsor. The program goal is to recognize and stimulate the best students of mathematics from among school districts across the United States utilizing a competition with scholarship awards. The Trig-Star program is designed to:
- promote excellence in the mastery of mathematics in high school
- honor high school students who have demonstrated their superior skill among classmates at the local, state, and national levels
- acquaint high school students with the use and practical applications of mathematics in the surveying professions
- build an awareness of surveying and mapping as a profession among mathematically skilled high school students, career guidance counselors, and high school math teachers
TWIST
MSPS Southeast Chapter helps to promote the profession of surveying by engaging and educating teachers to the math and science behind surveying. Teachers can obtain continueing education credits for attending Ferris State.
TWisT for 2024 will be held on June 16-21, 2024.
MI Career Days
MSPS Southeast Chapter helps to promote the profession of surveying by engaging students and teachers to surveying.
MI Career Days for 2024 will be held on November 19, 2024.