2012 Regionals Update

Due to some room scheduling conflicts that have yet to be resolved, participants in the 2012 Northeast Regional competition at Ivy Tech Community College in Fort Wayne should be prepared to develop their Web documents using an ASCII editor (e.g., Notepad++). The college is hosting another competition (CCDC) on the same day, and the organizers claimed all of the rooms that we typically use for the SkillsUSA competitions. As a result, we will not have access to any CINS rooms that have our typical software installed on them. I am working feverishly to accommodate the special needs of each of the computer-related competitions, but I was completely caught by surprise by the CCDC competition. If anything changes, I will post another update to this blog. Until and unless something changes, however, Web contestants should be prepared to do all development of their HTML5 and CSS documents without the aid of GUI editors. Given the heightened security surrounding the nature of the CCDC competition, no SkillsUSA participants will be allowed to enter the building with personal computer equipment. Security guards will be posted at various points on the first and second floors of building 3 (where the computer competitions take place), and movement from room to room will require security badge and ID. Having SkillsUSA and CCDC compete at the same time should prove interesting, if nothing else. Stay tuned to this blog for further updates.