Here's the deal. Every year 10,000 of your finest teachers from across the
country converge on a city for a week-long convention/bash that sees some
150 to 200 issues brought to the floor and debated to set the agenda for the
following year's legislative efforts in the field of education. This gig is
called the National Education Association Representative Assembly (fondly
nicknamed "the RA"). Roughly one delegate for each 1000 teachers in the
country, chosen by their peers from state to state.

Photo 14 shows about half of the whole RA floor, taken from the
Massachusetts delegation
Photo 2 shows that not everybody takes the RA seriously.

Every morning (early) each state holds a caucus to discuss and vote on how
that state sees the issues that will come to the whole RA floor that day.
Most issues are hotly debated on the RA floor, some for up to an hour.

On the floor, each delegation sits as a state in their own paticular area.
These areas are marked by signs (photo 13) that may have "bonus stickers" on
the top (photo 8). These signs are cardboard mounted (RA parts photo) to a
1.5" id galvanized pipe 10' from top to bottom. The cardboard has small
holes in each of the 4 corners, 3 cardboards to a single sign. The little
plastic "bumps" at the end of the attach arms fit into the cardboard holes
and the whole shebang is slid over the pipe from the top with the attach arm
piece with the solid center resting inside the galvanized pipe.

To remind delegates how their caucus voted, "card carriers" from each state
parade down the aisles (photo 6) carrying large signs reminding delegates
how the caucus voted in the morning. While each delegate can vote their
mind, the reminder is there anyway.

The problem, of course, is that the card carriers get in the way of things
.... you are blocked from seeing the center stage at times, and in general,
the card carriers are an anachronism that I'd like to work around.

Lights, in particular, would be nice if we could figure out a way to attach
them to the galvanized so that everybody in the delegation could see them.
Small problem is that you don't want California's lights to shine into New
Jersey's eyes, so some sort of masking arrangement needs to be a part of the
design. No wall juice available, so a small battery pack (recharged every
day) will be required.

I'd like some thoughts on how YOU would proceed on this design before I get
all het up about it and do something stupid.

Comments appreciated.

Jim

Calfornia, "Where Hope Begins". LMAO!

Tim

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"RST Engineering - JIm" wrote in message
...
Here's the deal. Every year 10,000 of your finest teachers from across
the country converge on a city for a week-long convention/bash that sees
some 150 to 200 issues brought to the floor and debated to set the agenda
for the following year's legislative efforts in the field of education.
This gig is called the National Education Association Representative
Assembly (fondly nicknamed "the RA"). Roughly one delegate for each 1000
teachers in the country, chosen by their peers from state to state.

Photo 14 shows about half of the whole RA floor, taken from the
Massachusetts delegation
Photo 2 shows that not everybody takes the RA seriously.

Every morning (early) each state holds a caucus to discuss and vote on how
that state sees the issues that will come to the whole RA floor that day.
Most issues are hotly debated on the RA floor, some for up to an hour.

On the floor, each delegation sits as a state in their own paticular area.
These areas are marked by signs (photo 13) that may have "bonus stickers"
on the top (photo 8). These signs are cardboard mounted (RA parts photo)
to a 1.5" id galvanized pipe 10' from top to bottom. The cardboard has
small holes in each of the 4 corners, 3 cardboards to a single sign. The
little plastic "bumps" at the end of the attach arms fit into the
cardboard holes and the whole shebang is slid over the pipe from the top
with the attach arm piece with the solid center resting inside the
galvanized pipe.

To remind delegates how their caucus voted, "card carriers" from each
state parade down the aisles (photo 6) carrying large signs reminding
delegates how the caucus voted in the morning. While each delegate can
vote their mind, the reminder is there anyway.

The problem, of course, is that the card carriers get in the way of things
... you are blocked from seeing the center stage at times, and in general,
the card carriers are an anachronism that I'd like to work around.

Lights, in particular, would be nice if we could figure out a way to
attach them to the galvanized so that everybody in the delegation could
see them. Small problem is that you don't want California's lights to
shine into New Jersey's eyes, so some sort of masking arrangement needs to
be a part of the design. No wall juice available, so a small battery pack
(recharged every day) will be required.

I'd like some thoughts on how YOU would proceed on this design before I
get all het up about it and do something stupid.

Comments appreciated.

Jim