Intern Event and 20x20 Show

Since 2003 the Pecha Kucha presentation format of 20 images lasting 20 seconds each has been spreading around the world. This year we’re going to bring that format to our yearly intern party!

Join us on Thursday night, November 6th for this year’s Intern Party and 20x20 Show with door prizes, music, free food and drinks. Make sure to mark it down on your calendar and come on down to the AIBC next Thursday night! Please send a quick r.s.v.p. to the Intern Architect Committee at interncommittee@yahoo.com so that we have a good idea of numbers for catering. The Intern Architect Committee would like to thank the Architecture Foundation of British Columbia for sponsoring the door prizes for this event.

LAST CALL - Registration for David Thaddeus’ Structures Seminar

On Friday November 7th, David Thaddeus will begin his 3-day (Friday – Sunday) intensive Structures workshop to help prepare interns for the ARE Structures exam. There are still spaces available for this seminar and, in fact, David Thaddeus would like to see more registrants come forward. This course is great for people who want to absorb structures concepts in a hands on format prior to taking the ARE Structures exam. If you are interested please click here for the registration form. The deadline for registration has been extended to Thursday, October 30th at 5:00 pm. If you have any questions you can email the AIBC’s Registration Coordinator, Róisín O’Neill at roneill@aibc.ca. For a full description of the course please see last month’s blog.

ARE Scheduling

With the June 30, 2009 deadline for completing ARE 3.1 before the conversion to ARE 4.0 fast approaching, the Burnaby Test Centre has been very busy with bookings. Therefore, this site (#5129) has just opened their schedule on December 22, 23, 27, 29 and 30 to deliver exams. Please go online at www.prometric.com/ncarb or call 1-(800) 479-6215 to schedule your examinations for these dates. Don't forget that NCARB has scheduling guidelines and guarantees so if you are having difficulty scheduling an exam please fill out their ARE Scheduling Verification Form and fax to NCARB. If you continue to have difficulty with scheduling please contact Róisín O'Neill, AIBC Registration Coordinator at roneill@aibc.ca and provide the exam information and time frame you are hoping for.

Corrected Intern Committee Email

Last month we published an incorrect email address in our newsletter and 20 x 20 poster. The correct email is interncommittee@yahoo.com. If you went to the trouble to send us a comment or question, please re-send it to this account. We apologize for any inconvenience. Your email goes directly to your Intern Architect Committee (Patrick Schilling IA, Johnnie Kuo IA, Abdel Amin IA, Baldwin Hum IA, Anthony Milkovich IA, Jason Herzog IA, Scott Staniul IA, and Paul Sukava IA). We hope this gives you the confidence to send us your unfiltered thoughts on the program, courses, fees, exams, oral review preparation, and all things intern related. So let’s hear from you!

Intern Architect Committee proudly presents this year's intern annual event: "20x20!"

Since 2003 the creative process of a public meeting at which a series of presenters display and speak about a series of 20 images for no more than 20 seconds per image has become a popular event worldwide. This year we want to unleash intern creativity at our intern event by hosting just such a meeting. Join us on Thursday night, November 6th for this year's Intern Event: 20/20 show, prizes, music, and fellowship.

We have timed this year's Intern Event to coincide with two other AIBC events so that interns from around the province can attend. The November 6th date not only coincides with the Remembrance Day weekend, but also with the 'Law & the Architect' course being held at the AIBC on the same day. The next day, Friday November 7th, David Thaddeus will begin his 3 day intensive ARE Structures Seminar to help prepare interns for the structures ARE exam. We've already had a lot of interest on his second appearance in Vancouver.

We think the Intern 20x20 event will be a great way of showcasing our local talent.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

To make this event truly successful, we need you to submit presentations. If interested in presenting at this session, please send us your name and a brief description of your presentation. Spaces are limited so let us know as soon as possible.

Here are the rules:

• Every presenter will show 20 slides on a topic of their choice, and will have a maximum of 6 minutes and 40 seconds to talk during their presentation (up to 20 seconds per slide) .
• Each presenter will submit his or her 20 slides as .jpg images no larger than 1024x768 pixels in size and clearly labeled with presentation sequence 01~20.
• Deadline: 5pm PST on October 31st, 2008.
• Email your slides in a zip file to this address: interncommittee@yahoo.com.