Structural Pest Workshops - Week of March 4th

The NC Pest Management Association is offering structural pest workshops during the week of March 4th. One CCU in P-Phase and one CCU in W-Phase will be offered. The cost for the workshop is $5 for NCPMA members and $25 for non-members. The workshop schedule can be found by visiting the NCPMA website: http://www.ncpestmanagement.org/. Click on the link for "Spring Workshops".

School IPM Workshops Scheduled!

The deadline for implementing an IPM Plan for all NC Public Schools is October 1, 2011.

In an effort to help school systems that have not yet (or are still in the process) of putting together and implementing an IPM Plan, NCSU is offering several regional workshops for IPM Coordinators and maintenance personnel. We will have 2 CCU’s of P-phase recertification available.

During the workshop, we will distribute IPM kits for school systems to use to conduct their own in-house training and information sessions about School IPM for staff, teachers, parents, and other interested parties. Each IPM kit contains:

• A collection of common insect pests
• A CD of Powerpoint presentations and scripts for use in IPM training
• A DVD on School IPM (produced by Dr. Godfrey Nalyanya before he left NCSU)
• A set of identification guides and CD’s donated by Syngenta.

The topics for the workshops will include:

• How to use the training materials for promoting IPM in your school
• Handling bed bugs found in schools
• School IPM, from start to implementation – problems and solutions

The following workshops have been scheduled. These are the last workshops that will be offered before the October 1, 2011 deadline. There is no cost to attend the workshops, however, you must pre-register to attend so we will have enough material to distribute. Please contact Patty Alder at 919.513.3805 or patricia_alder@ncsu.edu to register. 

August 23, 2011

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Durham County Extension Center

721 Foster St

Durham, NC 27701

August 29, 2011

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Cumberland County Maintenance Operations Center

810 Gillespie Street

Fayetteville, NC

August 30, 2011

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Transylvania County Extension Center

98 East Morgan St

Brevard, NC 28712

September 1, 2011

9:00am – 12:00pm

Caldwell County Extension Center

120 Hospital Avenue NE

Lenoir, NC 28645

September 1, 2011

9:00am – 12:00pm

Perquimans County Board of Education Building

411 S. Edenton Road Street

Hertford, NC

New Hanover County

Location/Date TBD

School IPM Workshops Underway!

With the October 2011 deadline for implementing IPM in Schools coming up so quickly, we have been traveling across NC to offer 3-hour workshops for IPM Coordinators and maintenance personnel. The primary purpose of the workshops is to distribute IPM kits for the school systems to use to conduct their own in-house training and information sessions about school IPM for staff, teachers, parents, and other interested parties.

Each IPM kit contains:

A collection of common insect pests:

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A CD of Powerpoint presentations and scripts for use in training and a DVD on School IPM (produced by Dr. Godfrey Nalyanya before he left NCSU):

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     A set of identification guides and CDs donated by Syngenta:

The topics for the workshops include instructions on how to use the training materials for promoting IPM in schools, as well as discussion of suggested protocol for bed bugs found in schools. In addition, Chris Mills, IPM Coordinator for Union County Schools, has been sharing his experiences with school IPM, from start to implementation, including problems and solutions he has encountered along the way.

Currently, we've scheduled the workshops listed below. We are working on scheduling workshops for the eastern part of NC and will let you know as soon as those are scheduled.

   

Wednesday, May 4th, 1:00pm - 4:15pm

Cumberland County Cooperative Extension

301 E Mountain Drive

Fayetteville, NC 28306

http://cumberland.ces.ncsu.edu/

Wednesday, May 11th, 1:00pm - 4:15pm

Caldwell County Cooperative Extension

120 Hospital Avenue NE, Suite 1

Lenoir, NC 28645

http://caldwell.ces.ncsu.edu/

Thursday, May 12th, 1:00pm - 4:15pm

Macon County Cooperative Extension

193 Thomas Heights Road

Franklin, NC 28734

http://macon.ces.ncsu.edu/

Please contact Patty Alder at patricia_alder@ncsu.edu if you plan on attending a workshop so that we will have enough materials to distribute. 

School IPM Workshops Scheduled!

With the October 2011 deadline for implementing IPM in Schools looming in the fall, we are offering 3-hour workshops for IPM Coordinators and maintenance personnel. We will have at least 2-CCUs of P-phase recertification credits available. The primary purpose of the workshop is to begin distributing the IPM kits for the school systems to use to conduct their own in-service training & information sessions about School IPM for staff, teachers, and parents other other interested parties.  The kits contain:

IPM Kit

- A collection of common insect pests
- A CD of Powerpoint presentations & scripts to be used for training
- A DVD on School IPM (produced by Dr. Godfrey Nalyanya before he left   NCSU)
- A set of identification guides and CDs donated by Syngenta.


The topics for the workshops will include:
- How to use the training materials for promoting IPM in your schools
- Handling bed bugs infestations
- School IPM for start to implementation - problems and solutions

Currently, we've schedule four workshops. The others will be announced when we have dates and sites.

Date: Thursday, March 10th
Time:  1:00pm - 4:15pm
Location:  Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Extension Center, Mill River, NC (near the Asheville Aiport)
Website:  http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/fletcher/

Date: Friday, March 11th
Time:  1:00pm - 4:15pm
Location:  Forsyth County Cooperative Extension Center, Winston-Salem, NC
Website: http://forsyth.ces.ncsu.edu/


Date: Monday, April 18
Time: 1:00pm - 4:15pm
Time: Pitt County Cooperative Extension 
403 Government Circle, Suite 2
Greenville, NC 27834
Date: Thursday, April 21
Time: 9:00am - 12:15pm
Location: 201 Venus Street, Monroe, NC 28112

We are planning other sessions later in the year for Wilmington, Raleigh, Fayetteville and another location to be determined in the northeast.

Please email us to let us know if you are planning to attend one of the sessions so we can have enough materials to distribute.

Patty Alder 
Training Coordinator
NCSU Department of Entomology
patricia_alder@ncsu.edu919.513.3805