The annual golf tournament is the Missouri-Kansas Society of Fire Protection Engineer's main fundraiser which help supports growth and interest in the industry through local University Scholarships. This year's tournament will be held at Paradise Point in Smithville, MO on Friday, September 12th, 2014. See registration and more event details on our Golf Tournament Events Page. We look forward to attempting to break last year's record scholarship distribution of $4,000.

The local Missouri-Kansas Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers will be hosting an upcoming training course on "Introduction to Fire Dynamics Simulator and Smokeview." It will be hosted at Henderson Engineers August 20th-August 22nd. Space is limited to the first 20 registrants, so don't wait to register. See our Training page and our registration flyer for more detail on how to join.

NFSA has rescheduled their training program from February for August 12 and 13th in Riverside, MO. The training will cover Fire Pumps for Fire Protection and Fire Service Mains & Their Appurtenances. See more information about the opportunities here: http://www.readyshare.com/Users/seminars@nfsa-org/UploadMails/colorado_springs,_co6_12_2014_93639_AM.htm.

Join us at Cinzetti's on Monday, June 2nd, 2014 for a presentation on updates to NFPA 25, the Standard on Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance at the June 2014 Missouri-Kansas Chapter Meeting of The Society of Fire Protection Engineers.

Chris Gaut, Central Region Manager for NFSA will provide a short presentation on updates in the industry before Jason Webb, Director of ITM for NFSA, will do a presentation on NFPA 25 updates at Cinzetti's in Overland Park. Lunch begins at 11:30am with the presentation beginning at noon.

For information on all of our upcoming events, see our Events page. Interested in receiving these emails to your inbox? Subscribe at our chapter website.

Congratulations to our two 2014-2015 recipients of the Missouri-Kansas Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers Scholarship Loryn Goebel and Alex Egley!

Loryn Goebel, University of Kansas, is a student member of our chapter and has attended several meetings.  She is a previous scholarship recipient and is very interested in the fire protection industry.  Loryn worked for JE Dunn last summer and for Henderson Engineers over Christmas break.  She is returning to HEI this summer.  
 
Alex Egley is a 4.0 in Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas and a projected 2016 graduate.  He is just starting to look at specialties and has expressed an interest in fire protection. 

Thank you to the chapter and the strong support at last fall's Golf outing which has long supported student interest in the industry. If you are interested or know of a student interested in applying for the annual chapter scholarship, you can get all of the details about it on our Student Page.