Attached is the Shuttle Bus Schedule. If your troupe has registered for the bus service, please be ready at the times listed.

Attached are several documents that you will need if you are attending the State Thespian Conference. Please download all of the files prior to arriving in Ashland. The ticket order form will be accepted until March 15 and will be filled in the order they are received.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at swilson@ohedta.org.

See you in Ashland!

Attached below is the workshop schedule for the State Conference. We have some great presenters coming. Any workshop that says "LIMITED" will be ticketed.

Attached below are the schedules for all performances and Individual Events. These are Excel files. REMEMBER...If you have a full-length show you have one-hour to set-up and strike, if you have a 60-minute show you have 30-minutes to set-up and strike, and if you have a 45-minute show you have 15-minutes to set-up and strike. Marathon productions have 45 minutes total to set-up perform and strike.

The Tech Theatre IE categories can be found on page 2 of the IE schedule.

If you have any questions about the performance schedule, please contact Jennifer Krauskopf (jkrauskopf@ohedta.org)

If you have any questions about the Individual Events schedule, please contact Carl Krauskopf (ckrauskopf@ohedta.org)

"The FCC finally dropped the other proverbial shoe during the 2010 Winter NAMM show when it issued an Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking prohibiting sales of wireless microphone and monitoring systems that operate in the 700 MHz frequency band, and kicking existing ones out by June 12 of this year." [READ MORE]

EdTA has published a news release regarding the transition and Shure, the largest wireless microphone manufacturer, has a section of their website dedicated to the wireless transition.

Additionally, if you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Brite Lites Incorporated. They're a Central Ohio theatrical lighting and sound vendor and would be happy to answer any questions you might have about the wireless transition.

We'd like to announce the 2010 All-Ohio ensemble for the Ohio Educational Theatre Association's All-Ohio production at the 2010 State Thespian Conference. Congratulations to the entire ensemble!

Check out the cast and crew for the 2010 production of Indian Blood

Attached are the State Conference Registration Booklet, The IE Registration forms, and the IE rulebook. The Early Bird deadline is February 5, 2010. Please be sure to read all of the information in the packet prior to sending in your registration.

See you in Ashland!

The 2009-2010 Honor Troupe Information is available. Every troupe is encouraged to enter their troupe for recognition. The application for this school year will be due at the 2010 Leadership Day in the fall.

Here is the logo for the Ohio State Thespian Conference. Thanks to Jacob Parr (TSA class of 2009) for this great professional design!

The logo will appear on the conference t-shirt, registration packet and program.

Check out the upcoming Ohio EdTA events!

• Leadership Conference- October 3 @ Hilliard Davidson
• Junior Troupe Conference- February 19-20 @ Olentangy Liberty MS
• State Thespian Conference- March 19-21 @ Ashland University
• AREA CONFERENCES
• Central- December 5 @ Bexley HS
• SE- December 5 @ Crooksville HS
• SW- December 12 @ Northmont HS
• NE- January 9 @ Firestone HS
• N- January 16 @ Edison HS
• NW- January 30 @ Maumee HS

Many of you have asked for a digital version of the Ohio EdTA Membership Handbook.  The handbook nas recently been revised and can be downloaded as a pdf file.  It contains pertinent information particularly for those troupes which have been invited to bring their show to State Conference.  Please read over it and as always, e-mail any Board member with questions.  We're here to help you,

Over the past few years, the Ohio Educational Theatre Association's organizational needs had begun to outgrow their website. This year there has been a complete redesign of their website and the board has tons of new and exciting ideas for this school year. With new ideas comes improvement, starting with a new website.

proVanceTek has worked with the Ohio Educational Theatre Association to completely overhaul the visual design of the website and its functionality. We're striving to appeal to the Theatre students, teachers, and parents of Ohio schools. We've created a design that incorporates an easy-on-the-eyes color scheme and a content management system that allows Ohio EdTA board members easily edit the site's content. We're striving to move from a Web 2.0 mindset this year to working towards the concept of Web 3.0 for next year - we have lots of ideas.

The new release of the website utilizes the Drupal Content Management System which is more widely used for corporate websites that manage lots of data and websites that need to incorporate lots of web applications. The former format of the website was limiting when it comes to some of the cool features we're planning on adding to our site. This year we hope to implement online registration for event, multimedia, and much more!

We hope you like our new design and the features we'll be adding. Stay tuned for more exciting improvements!