NCEES celebrating Surveyors Week with #PSnoboundaries
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:50 am
NCEES will celebrate National Surveyors Week 2015 by partnering with Geocaching to launch #PSnoboundaries, a nationwide trackable geocaching contest. Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasurehunting game in which participants, known as geocachers, use GPSenabled devices to find hidden containers called geocaches. Today, there are more than six million registered geocachers and more than two million active geocaches throughout the world.
It’s a great opportunity to introduce the surveying profession to an extremely large group of people who are familiar with GPS technology. #PSnoboundaries will feature 2,500 NCEES-branded trackables, which will be available upon request at geocaching.com during National Surveyors Week. Each trackable will have a unique tracking code and Web page where its individual movements are tracked. Information about NCEES, surveying licensure, and links to ncees.org will appear on each page. Participants will log their trackable at geocaching.com and place them into a geocache container to start them on their journey. Once in circulation, the trackable’s movements will be logged and monitored. Similar promotions have resulted in individual trackables passing through thousands of hands and traveling more than 40,000 miles.
To participate in the contest portion of the promotion, participants will use a GPS unit and/or written directions provided by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) to seek out NGS survey markers that have been established in the United States. Once the marker has been located, participants must have their picture made next to the benchmark while holding their trackable and post their photo to Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #PSnoboundaries by June 1.
The grand prizewinner will receive a trip for two to the 2015 Geocaching Block party in Seattle. Two runners up will each receive a $100 Visa gift card. Winners will be randomly selected.
It’s a great opportunity to introduce the surveying profession to an extremely large group of people who are familiar with GPS technology. #PSnoboundaries will feature 2,500 NCEES-branded trackables, which will be available upon request at geocaching.com during National Surveyors Week. Each trackable will have a unique tracking code and Web page where its individual movements are tracked. Information about NCEES, surveying licensure, and links to ncees.org will appear on each page. Participants will log their trackable at geocaching.com and place them into a geocache container to start them on their journey. Once in circulation, the trackable’s movements will be logged and monitored. Similar promotions have resulted in individual trackables passing through thousands of hands and traveling more than 40,000 miles.
To participate in the contest portion of the promotion, participants will use a GPS unit and/or written directions provided by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) to seek out NGS survey markers that have been established in the United States. Once the marker has been located, participants must have their picture made next to the benchmark while holding their trackable and post their photo to Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #PSnoboundaries by June 1.
The grand prizewinner will receive a trip for two to the 2015 Geocaching Block party in Seattle. Two runners up will each receive a $100 Visa gift card. Winners will be randomly selected.