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TCAPWA EVENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Submit Nominations for TCAPWA Awards
The Awards Committee is seeking nominations from our National Technicians Competition
chapter members and friends for TCAPWA’s 2018 Annual
Awards. Please take a few minutes of your time to nominate For the first time ever, APWA is hosting a Technicians
someone for the awards listed below. It is a quick and easy way Competition Tuesday, August 27, in Kansas City at the 2018
to honor someone who you think has done a good job for your PWX. This is a time for mechanics to be recognized for their
agency and TCAPWA. skills.
TCAPWA Project of the Year: This award recognizes a project Nominations for this recognition are now being accepted
in a Tennessee city that epitomizes outstanding planning, and are due August 1. Please take time to nominate an
construction and management. This project becomes the individual for the opportunity to participate at this year’s
Tennessee Chapter’s nomination to the National APWA Top Ten event. The Tennessee Chapter will pay for the recipient’s
Projects of the Year. travel and lodging. Only one representative may be sent
from each Chapter.
Edward C. Archer Young Public Works Leader of the Year Award:
Established in Ed Archer’s honor, this award is presented to an Please submit your nominations to Justin Holland by
individual who, over the person’s young professional career, has emailing apatton@chattanooga.gov with the subject line
contributed to the advancement of Public Works and TCAPWA. “APWA Technicians Competition Nomination.”
The recipient must be 35 years of age or younger and shall be
active in TCAPWA, including participation in meetings and Technicians Competition Details
activities at the branch and chapter levels.
Competition will include six events and one written exam for
Frank Kirk Meritorious Service Award: Established in Frank Kirk’s each participant. The maximum number of participants is 63
honor, the Meritorious Service Award acknowledges the (one per chapter). Due to time constraints, participants in
important role that APWA members in private enterprise and this event will not be able to participate in the backhoe/mini-
academic institutions play in providing Public Works facilities excavator or skidsteer competitions at PWX.
and services. This award is based on the quality, efficiency or
cost-effectiveness of services provided by public agencies. Individual Test Stations:
W. Larry Eddins Award: Established in Larry Eddins’ honor, this 1. Safety station: Technician will need to identify various
award recognizes the Tennessee Chapter’s nominee for the items and answer questions related to shop safety.
APWA’s Harry Swearingen Award. Harry Swearingen (1900-
1950) worked untiringly on behalf of the association and its 2. Electrical Station: Technician will be asked to conduct
purposes and was the state co-chairman for the association in various procedures using a test board. These procedures may
California. This award is made to that person who deserves include properly wiring a lighting or relay circuit.
recognition for work performed on behalf of the APWA through
his/her chapter. 3. Snow Plow Station: Technicians will be asked to find
and troubleshoot common failures on a light-duty plow
Roger Clark Award: Established in Roger Clark’s honor, this award truck. Wiring diagrams will be provided to assist in diagnosis
recognizes the Tennessee Chapter’s nominee for APWA’s Special of issues. Technicians will also be asked to identify any safety
Service Award for dedication and service to the Tennessee issues associated with the plow and truck.
Chapter of the APWA.
4. Hydraulics Station: Participants will be provided
Charles Walter Nichols Award: The purpose of the Charles Walter with a hydraulic plumbing diagram, hoses, valves, and
Nichols Award is to recognize outstanding and meritorious miscellaneous hydraulic components. In the time allotted,
achievements in the Public Works field. A recipient must be it will be their task to successfully build a working hydraulic
an active member of APWA and must be engaged in full-time circuit matching the diagram.
employment by a political subdivision of a state or province. The
field of activity for this award is sanitation in the broadest sense: 5. Fabrication Station: Technician will be required to
street sanitation, refuse collection and disposal, sewers, sewage fabricate a template from a piece of metal and make
treatment, and water supply and treatment. precision cuts safely per instructions using supplied tools.
Award of Merit: The Award of Merit recognizes the dedicated 6. Tire Repair Station: Technicians will be scored on proper
service of the Public Works or related agency personnel at industry identification of reparable tires and performing the
the operations level who perform their responsibilities in an proper steps in an industry-approved tire repair procedure.
exceptionally efficient and courteous manner.
7. Written Test: An ASE-style multiple choice test will be
Recipients of these awards will be announced at the TCAPWA/ given covering a full spectrum of areas on both Automotive
SWANA Annual Conference in Nashville, on Tuesday, October and Medium/Heavy truck. The test is designed to test
23. Please submit your nominations to Justin Holland at the knowledge of the contestant in theory and repair over
apatton@chattanooga.gov by September 7. multiple areas of cars, trucks, and equipment, including but
not limited to: electrical, brake, HVAC, general engine, and
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