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Cornfield SAR Training

In the Midwest, corn & soybeans are our predominant crops. It’s not uncommon for people to enter cornfields and become disorientated and lost. The Will County Emergency Management Agency organized a training session today on […]

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Measure It

The Joliet Junior College AEC Construction Survey team has been getting some hands-on work using different measuring devices. Sounds like a pretty boring assignment, right? Really, who doesn’t know how to measure something…? Using a […]

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A Cool Podcast Shout-Out

It’s always neat to see how people with common interests find collection points through the Internet. I received an email from Dany over at LED Lighting Supply letting me know that they curated a list […]

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On Being an Instructor

Note: I originally wrote this on June 5, 2022 – It’s worth sharing now…. Having just hit “Submit” on the semester final grades, I thought it would be a good time to open the laptop […]

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Chicago Veterans Ruck March 2024

On May 24, 2024, I had the chance to participate in the Chicago Veterans 10th Annual Ruck March. The 17-mile ruck was chartered to raise awareness to veteran suicide: It is estimated that 17 former […]