APMM Conference Forum

Welcome to the place to bring your ideas and questions about next year's APMM conference! It's your conference, so tell us what you'd like to see and do there. Do you have any Denver-area places or people we should be checking out? Is there something you'd like to learn about in a workshop? Have you seen or done something at another conference you'd like us to try out at ours? Your posts here will be public. You can contact any APMM Board member or info@modelmakers.org if you want to keep your interaction private. Thank you and please help us make this the greatest get-together it can be!

Your APMM Board of Directors

Where do we find current details for this confernece?

Hi Everyone

Thanks for asking about this, Franklin. The conference page for our website hasn't been published yet. When it is, you'll see a link to it on the front page of the APMM website. We'll also send everyone an email announcing it has gone live. The basic facts are below

Dates: Monday October 6 thru Thursday Oct 9

Location: Sheraton Denver West Hotel, Denver, Colorado (West of downtown in Lakewood)

Schedule: For now, we plan on having shop tours on Monday and Thursday, and workshops at the hotel on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Registration: We'll have a registration portal open soon. Since we want to offer discounts to presenters of workshops, we're still tweaking the amounts. Your registration will cover lunch on the workshop days, along with morning and afternoon snacks. Tours will be a separate cost and will include lunch.

We have big list of potential tour destinations in the area, but not a lot of first-hand information about them. If anyone has been in Denver and seen a good place for us to visit, please answer here or email info@modelmakers.org.

Thanks for your interest!

Bruce Willey

APMM Communications VP

How to create a portfolio? Where and how to get it out there? What types of classes I should explore (i.e. mechanical and electronic/electrical engineering. I also see refences to Art.)? I coming for a background of law enforcement and IT work no real portfolio for that. I am going back to school for engineering. I found a CAD certificate program at a local college. Using that to get me into position. I have been to comic cons and other sci fi conventions for years. I have always be fascinated by the props. Then the CAD program show us how to 3D print. So I am looking to get into this arena.

We can definitely have a portfolio workshop. We'll even have portfolio review sessions by shop managers if we get enough students to attend or interested parties to request one. Thank you.

Bruce Willey

APMM Communications VP