1. Trade Fairs Let’s Get Started!

2. How to go to Trade Fairs and Keep your Sanity!  Your Trade Fair Packets: All you need to know  Complete Registration form and payment  Sign up for Competitions  Design booth and sales packages to be sold  Prepare for oral competitions

4. Trade Fairs 101  List of basic booth needs are in Jay’s VE Trade Fair packet  Make list of special things to bring for your product line  Set-up Trade Fair sales-bookkeeping system

5. Trade Fairs – You’re almost there!  Permission Slips and Board permission, if necessary  Hotel and Travel arrangements  Critique oral presentations; the judging rubrics are there for you!  Pack, Go, and have the time of your lives!

8. New York, Here we Come!

14. Sightseeing and shopping in New York is a Must!!!

16. “New York, New York”  Wall Street  Broadway Show “Rent”  Ground Zero  Ellis Island  Statue of Liberty  And Shopping, of course!

23. Best part? It’s sooo quiet on the way home…

25. VE is not just a class… We’re Family!!!