Carolinas' Online Conference
Carolinas’ Online Conference - Registration Opens Friday 25 September
Liberty, SC - Nearly three dozen golf course superintendent associations across the U.S. and the British International Golf Greenkeepers Association are partnering in a marathon online education conference this fall devised in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Using a tailored Zoom platform, Conference Comes to You presents 30 two-hour seminars – scheduled one a day – over 30 days starting November 2.
Registration in the program presented by the Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association opens at 10am EST, Friday, September 25 at www.conferencecomestoyou.org.
The online conference, which has a week off over Thanksgiving, takes the place of the Carolinas GCSA’s annual conference and trade show in Myrtle Beach, SC which is the largest regional event for superintendents in the U.S.
As official partners in Conference Comes to You, participating chapters earn discounted pricing for members – a break from $70 per seminar to $40 – and will receive a share of each member registration fee. Each attendee also has the chance to share in $30,000 of guaranteed cash prizes ranging from $2,500 to $100. Members qualify for one entry with each seminar they take.
“We’re thrilled to have so many chapters joining us. This platform benefits everyone involved, and the more people who participate the more benefit there will be for everyone,” Carolinas GCSA president, Brian Stiehler, CGCS, MG from Highlands Country Club in Highlands, NC, says.
“We see many visitors from across the country and overseas at our traditional conference and show each year. So, in these extraordinary times, when we can’t be face to face, it made sense for our conference to go ‘see’ them.”
Stiehler stressed his association’s gratitude for the financial backing of dozens of industry partners, including longtime education partner, Syngenta, and prize package partners, John Deere Golf, Revels Turf and Tractor, Greenville Turf and Tractor, Toro, Smith Turf and Irrigation, Jacobsen and TSP Turf.
“This is an incredible show of support from companies we have worked with for years and in many cases, generations,” Stiehler says. “That they have stepped up to help superintendents continue their professional development in times like these speaks volumes.”
Find full details of the sessions listed below in the document here:
Carolinas' Conference -Webinar Details
Times listed are EST - This is 5pm to 7pm GMT
2 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) The Benefits of Oxygen
3 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Holy Grail - Warm Season
4 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Strategies
5 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Advanced Weed Management - Warm Season Grasses
6 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) So You've Got Earthworms!
9 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Putting the "Fun" in Fungicides
10 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Aquatic Weeds
11 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Mindful Greenkeeping in Stressful Times
12 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Advanced Weed Management
13 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) POA Resistance
16 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Bunker Construction
17 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Advanced and Cost Effective Management of Insect Pests of Warm Season Turf
18 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Getting the Right Form and Function
19 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Annual Bluegrass Weevil Master Class
20 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Understanding Pesticide Behaviour to Optimise Applications and Minimis Collateral Damage
30 Nov 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) The Challenge of Managing Nematodes in Turf
1 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Plant Growth Regualtors for Fine Warm Season Turf
2 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Badass Leadership! The Power of Purpose, Compassion and Authenticity
3 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Plant Growth Regualtors for Fine Cool Season Turf
4 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Fundamentals of Wetting Agents
7 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Making Herbicides Work or Why do they Fail?
8 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Getting to the Root of Managing Soilborne Diseases - Warm-Season Turfgrasses
9 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Bugs in a Jug: Understanding Natural Products for Turf
10 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Getting to the Root of Managing Soilborne Diseases - Cool-Season Turfgrasses
11 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) How Much Shade is Too Much Shade?
14 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Bentgrass Selection Management
15 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Management of Ultradwarf Bermudagrass
16 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) BMP Hero! Scene 1: "Bees, Buffers and Bourbon"
17 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) Holy Grail - Cool Season
18 Dec 20 - 1 to 3pm (EST) The 'Other' Essential Elements, and Some that Might be?