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Well first and foremost, I'd like to thank you, PSC, the instructors and other volunteers for what was truly an outstanding event.


The clinics and instructors were excellent, the food was first rate, and there isn't anything I could offer regarding the activities themselves that could improve them. The couple of suggestions that I'd make are most relevant to first timers, I think. I'll be a lot more comfortable next year regardless, now that I have my bearings. The bit of confusion I had was due to the fact that it was my first time at a CHL Forum day, and at PSC.

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- Issue: Finding registration. When I pulled in Saturday morning, I didn't know where sign-in was, and it didn't seem that anybody else did either. I was directed to the blue building twice, to the general area of the bays two or three times, and it was the fifth or sixth person I asked who could finally point to the building where sign-in was happening.

- Suggestion: A sign or two pointing the way to where to go to sign-in would be quite helpful.

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- Issue: Figuring out the schedule and the range. At sign-up, I was handed a badge, but didn't get an explanation of the colors, where anything was happening, or what was available. I know that several of us stood around in an empty bay for ten minutes or so, before we figured out that the clinic we were waiting for had been moved to another bay. There seemed to be general confusion about what was going on where, and nobody seemed to know what the colors on the badges were. The sheet that was put up on the registration building door at some point in the day matching seminars and clinics to their badge colors, times, and bays was very helpful, but it wasn't up first thing in the morning.

- Suggestion: I know hand-outs were suggested earlier, but all I really think would be needed would be for the sheet on the registration building door to be up first thing in the morning with a simple map of the range next to it, and then when handing out badges point people to it and explain that the colors on the badge match the colors on the sheet for the sessions they're registered for.

- Bonus Suggestion: If it could be noted on the sheets which sessions were full, it would give folks with free time a better chance to choose another session with to attend where there might still be openings allowing them to participate.

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- Issue: Some of the bays on the range weren't clearly marked, and that added to the fact that sessions were being moved around led to people (myself included) not being in the correct bay for a clinic, or worrying that they weren't in the correct bay even if they were.

- Suggestion: A sign (even a simple 8.5x11 sheet of paper) at the entrance to each bay where a clinic is being held noting the name and time of the clinic being held would solve this issue completely.
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Thanks again for a wonderful event. All of the time and hard work that I know went into it was immensely appreciated. I had a great time, met great people, got some great advice, and learned a ton. I'm already eagerly awaiting next year's forum day.

-Xander