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Central Region Younger Member Council Conference

This year’s Central Region Younger Member Council Conference, which is held in conjunction with the Multi Region Leadership Conference and the Workshop for Student Chapter Leaders, was hosted in Houston, Texas.  This event was set into motion over two years ago, when the Houston Branch Younger Member Group proposed that the 2015 conference be held in town with Brian C. Ridley, P.E. and Natalie Weiershausen P.E.  as co-chairs.   Nearly 300 attended including over 170.  

In addition to two full days of educational and networking sessions, the co-chairs hosted an awards banquet for Central Region Younger Member Awards that included celebrity murder mystery entertainment and dinner.  Not only were there “celebrities” involved in the show, but several ASCE members were pulled in as suspects; some good laughs were definitely had.  Further, there was a tour on the second day that took almost 150 conference goers down to Space Center Houston.  While there, they got to see the Saturn V rocket, mission control, rocket park, mock-up/training center, moon rock, and more.  Houston had a great time hosting and hopes everyone that made it down had a blast as well.  Special thanks to all ASCE staff, sponsors (both ASCE and corporate) and Brandon Ash, Jason Brock, and John Myers for helping out along the way.

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