On April 23rd, Birrenkott Surveying, Inc participated in “Bring Your Child To Work Day”. Terri, our Office Manager, brought her neice, Tara Belz to work. Tara is 11 years old and is a 5th grader at Westside Elementary in Sun Prairie. She spent the day seeing what Terri does as an Office Manager and even helped her with some projects.
Tara Belz helping with projects
Tara Belz helping with projects
The 2nd Graders from Sacred Hearts School got a tour of the Birrenkott Surveying facility to get a better understanding of what happens during the surveying process and the other services that are offered.
Each year, Birrenkott Surveying adopts a 2nd grade class from Sacred Hearts Elementary School in Sun Prairie. Birrenkott staff and students get together a total of 4 times per year, including one visit to the Birrenkott offices.
Sacred Hearts School Tours Birrenkott
Sacred Hearts School Tours Birrenkott
Sacred Hearts School Tours Birrenkott
Sacred Hearts School Tours Birrenkott
Birrenkott Surveying has been working on a fund-raiser called “Bucky’s Challenge” for the Surveyors Foundation. This supports the future education of surveyors and funds the State wide museum on surveying.
http://www.wsls.org/buck2009.htm
http://www.wsls.org/museum.htm
http://www.wsls.org/bucky.htm
Birrenkott Surveying recently attended Career Day at the Sun Prairie Senior High School.
2008 Trig-Star
Sun Prairie High School student Colin Loeffler recently received the first place award for his score on the Trig-Star exam, an annual high school trigonometry competition sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors.
The local program is offered and administered by Sun Prairie gradute Dan Birrenkott of Birrenkott Surveying. He is a member of the Sun Prairie Business and Education Partnership. This is his tenth year administering the test.
Loeffler won a prize of $100 for his score. Six others won prizes ranging from $25 – $75.
“The purpose of the Trig-Star program is to create an awareness of opportunities in the land surveying field,” said Birrenkott. “New to the program this year is an opportunity from the state and national associations to qualify for a scholarship in the land surveying field if a student takes the Trig-Star exam and then goes on to a school that offers an accredited surveying program.”
2008 Trig-Star
The Trig-Star Program recognizes the best students from high schools throughout the nation. It promotes the study of trigonometry in high school. Local prizes where donated by Birrenkott Surveying, the state and local surveyors associations and the Sun Prairie Rotary Club.
Pictured (from left): Retired surveyor and Sun Prairie Rotarian Bill Wambach, Harry Yang, Sara Schmitz, Tyler Beduhn, TJ Turner, Jordan Kreitinger, Yanzhu Hu, Loeffler and Birrenkott.