13 By Brandon Daigle, AIA Education and Resources Committee Education Outreach Committee Members: Jessica Barnhouse, AIA Brandon Daigle, AIA Brit Morgan, AIA Ben Reeves, AIA Clint Taylor, AIA The Education and Resource Committee’s primary goal is to promote architecture to the public and provide educational resources for architects to use when engaging with students and clients across the state. While the past few years have limited access to K-12 schools for class presentations by architects, the committee has focused on providing alternative educational resources by gathering online platforms for learning and sharing those with AIA members. Just this past month, the committee gained additional members and will begin to reevaluate priorities for 2023. The most recent public outreach event was a tour of the new Casper College Visual Arts building hosted by committee member Brandon Daigle. During the tour, students in the construction management program at Casper College were given an overview of the project timeline, contract and funding structure, and typical processes that architects and contractors execute to deliver a higher-education building to the public. Students were able to tour the building prior to the official opening, giving them a sneak preview of the building operations and back-of-house mechanical and electrical systems operations. The committee hopes to continue to engage with more consistent faceto-face workshops where elementary, middle, and high school students provide introductions to architecture through interactive presentations and mathematic project examples. The committee continues its goal of focusing on connecting with students and teachers in cities across Wyoming. There will be continued efforts to reach high school students and the new outreach developments to a higher education audience and the public. b By Lyle Murtha, AIA Government Advocacy Committee Advocating for Our Members Committee Members: Dale Buckingham, AIA Cornelius Kinsey, AIA Lyle Murtha, AIA Charlie VanOver, AIA Will Wedemeyer, AIA William Wheatley, AIA The Government Advocacy Committee continues to meet monthly via Microsoft Teams conferences to discuss issues affecting the architecture profession across Wyoming and at the national level. The goals of the committee are to introduce, monitor, and influence legislative and regulatory issues and to educate and engage our AIA Wyoming members. Our committee lost a member this year as Colleen Nelson, AIA, accepted a position on the Wyoming Board of Architects and Landscape Architects (WBALA). Because of this position, she now has a conflict of interest in this committee’s work. The committee is still operating without a formal chairperson, and Dale Buckingham (liaison to the Board) has been acting chairperson for the past couple of years. This year, while many issues were discussed, only one item – a request from the Wyoming Board of Architects and Landscape Architects to make changes to the Practice Act – required in-depth focus of the committee to coordinate comments on the text of the proposed changes. As of the date of the AIA Wyoming Annual Fall Conference in Sheridan, the proposed text was voted to be acceptable by all of the members present for this vote. The committee’s main focus typically is the Wyoming legislative session, which was a “budget” session in 2022. The “budget” sessions typically have fewer legislative items for the committee to follow and engage in. The upcoming 2023 Wyoming legislative session will be a “general” session. The committee is gearing up for support and tracking of the proposed Practice Act changes, as well as other items that may be presented before and during the session. b
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