Thursday, March 17
Heidelberg USA

PIAG has put together a full day of hands-on training for contestants in the Advertising Design and Graphic Communications SkillsUSA Georgia competitions. Industry experts will work with students to hone their skills, answer questions and give them an opportunity to prepare for the competition the next day. This training is only open to Advertising Design and SkillsUSA contestants. If you are a contestant, or have a student that is competing, contact Nicole Reid @ nreid@piag.org to reserve a spot for the training. A schedule for the day is below.
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Onsite Training Agenda (lunch provided by Heidelberg)

- Pre-Press training (for both Advertising Design and Graphic Communication contestants)
- Elements of Good Design with representatives from AIGA (for Advertising Design contestants)
- Offset Press Operations and Folding (this is a hands-on program for Graphic Communications contestants. You will get on the press and folder that will be used during the competition the next day.)

Schedule for March 17, 2011
Ad Design
10:00 - 12 noon - Discussion on good design. If you would like to bring your regional test, instructors will answer questions on the regional test.
12:00 - 12:30 pm - lunch (provided by Heidelberg)
12:30 - 1:30 pm - pre-press with Claudia McCue
1:30 - 2:00 pm - Tour of Heidelberg
2:15 pm - bus leaves for Airport Marriott

Schedule for March 17, 2011
Graphic Communications

Group 1 (groups will be assigned that day)    
10:00 - 11:00 am - pre-press          
11:00 - 11:30 - Tour of Heidelberg
11:30 - 12:00 pm - Lunch (provided by Heidelberg)
12:00 - 1:15 pm - Finishing
1:15 - 4:00 pm - Offset Press

Group 2  
10:00 - 12:45 am - Offset Press          
12:45 - 1:15 - lunch (provided by Heidelberg)
1:15 - 2:30 pm - Finishing
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Pre-Press
3:30 - 4:00 pm - Tour of Heidelberg