Conference and Trade Show
Student transporters posed on the blue carpet that led into last year's Industry Social networking event.
how large metropolitan school districts are tackling current issues budget cuts and employee relations. Frank Giordano, the head director of transportation for Clark County School District in Las Vegas, one of the top 10 largest school districts in the na- tion and this year’s STN EXPO co-chair, will be join the session along with Enrique Boull’t, chief operating officer at Los Angeles Unified School District in a roundtable conversation with Pete Meslin, a former STN EXPO co-chair. Later on Monday, another
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workshop will focus on rural transportation and the challenges with scheduling, length of rides, bell times, and more. Attendees will also benefit on July 22 from the expertise of Lt. Paul Hasen- meier, a firefighter and paramed- ic with the Huron (Ohio) Fire Department near Cleveland. He has trained numerous fire departments as well as student transportation departments on extrication and evacuation from a school bus as well as how to develop a mock-casualty exercise. He will share his knowledge during two separate workshops in the Safety & Security track. Hasenmeier will be joined by
Presented by
Denny Coughlin of the School Bus Training Company, and Cheri Clymer, a retired student transportation safety trainer for Tompson School District in Loveland, Colo. Tat evening, Yul Kwon will
present the featured keynote sponsored by Blue Bird Corpo-
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ration. Te 2006 winner of the reality television show “Survivor: Cook Islands,” Kwon will discuss the vital role that school busing and student transportation services play in assisting children in receiving a quality education, which he attributed to his own success. Kwon, currently an em- ployee in Facebook’s privacy de- partment, is an attorney, former legislative aide and host of last year’s PBS mini-series “America Revealed,” which featured a seg- ment last on how school buses fit into the nation’s transportation infrastructure. Troughout the three days
of workshops, the EXPO will also cover issues impacting the Head Start community, such as the federal sequestration and how it might affect the current recompetition process. Tis workshop takes place July 22, and will explore organizational challenges to suppport ongoing transportation. And in celebrating 20 years
of the EXPO, another Monday workshop looks back on five particular special needs-related topics that were first introduced at the inaugural event. Tuesday’s list of morning
workshops run the gamet, from one on lubricants and the use of synethics under the Maitenance track to another on crafting an effective RFP under the Opera- tions and Management track. Te winner of the Peter J.
Grandolfo Memorial Award of Excellence will be named during the Tomas Built Buses brunch
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