Rough Itinerary
Thursday, March 8
By 7:00- Registration and Check in-Union Club Hotel.
Welcome ReceptionDesert Buffet-PMU West Faculty Lounges.
7:00-7:30- Mingle and eat
8:00-9:30- Club Presentations
9:30-10:00- Ice Breaker Game
MACHS Officers Meeting
Friday, March 9
7:00- Continental Breakfast-Stewart TBA
8:00-9:00- General Knowledge Examination-Stewart Center-75
multiple choice questions.
9:00-10:00- Paper and Poster Presentations-Stewart Center-see
call for abstracts.
Plant Identification Competition-Stewart Center
10:15-11:00- Woody Ornamentals-Stewart Center-20 specimens.
11:00-11:15- Break
11:30-12:15- Herbaceous Plants-Stewart Center-20 specimens.
12:15-1:00- Judging Competition-Stewart Center
Landscape Plants, Greenhouse and Floral plants, Vegetable Crops, & Fruit
and Nut Crops-5 classes/category.
1:00-2:00- Lunch-St.Thomas Aquinas and Qdoba? Or Dorms?TBA
1:30-3:00- Departmental Tours
Greenhouse, Building, Garden talk-three half hour rotations.
Workshops/Speakers options
3:10-4:00- Dr. Ayres/Dr. Dennis
4:10-5:00- Faskillitators/Greg Pierceall
5:10-6:00- Faskillitatiors/Dr. Mitchell
Break
7:30- Dinner-BW3s
Saturday, March 10
7:30- Pick up breakfast and load bus outside PMU-Grant Street
7:30-8:00- Purdue Campus Tour-bus loop
8:00-9:30- Traveling
Regional Tours-Indianapolis
9:30-11:00- Heartland Growers
11:00-11:30- Traveling
11:30-1:00- Engledow Group
1:00-1:30- Traveling and Boxed Lunch on Bus
1:30-3:00- McNamara Florists and Enflora Flowers Design Center
3:00-3:30- Traveling
3:30-5:00- Indiana Flower and Patio Show
5:00-5:30- Traveling
5:30-8:30- Dinner and free time on your own-Indianapolis
8:30-10:00- Return to Purdue
Sunday, March 11
Check-out Union Club Hotel (by 1:00)
8:00-9:30- Annual Business Meeting-Purdue Memorial Union
9:45-10:30- Brunch-Feedback Questionnaires
10:30-11:00- Awards
Naming of individual and team winners
Naming of newly elected MACHS officers
11:00-11:45- Keynote Speaker-Dr. Taylor
“Dealing with the Hard Knocks in Life”?
11:45-12:00- Closing
New MACHS Officers meet