{"id":33576,"date":"2008-09-03T14:20:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T18:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/its-always-good"},"modified":"2008-09-03T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T18:20:59","slug":"its-always-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/09\/its-always-good.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Always Good in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=210\">SASUG<\/a> (pronounced &quot;sausage&quot; by the members) meeting was great as usual.&nbsp; Some familiar names were on hand to present &#8211; Webb Shoenfeld and Bruce Buck did terrific presentations (get those <a href=\"https:\/\/1bosweb3.experient-inc.com\/Events\/Solidworks\/world2009\/CFP\/Speaker_guide.cfm\">abstracts<\/a> in guys), the BBQ was good (no pizza for <u>this<\/u> group), and group leader Jim Lowery&#8217;s sense of humor is always appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting kicked off with a short presentation by Mike Henry, a former teacher and now Business\/Community Liaison for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accd.edu\/nvc\/programs\/tier\/default.htm\">TIER<\/a> &#8211; the Texas Institute for Educational Robotics.&nbsp; Mr. Henry was there to stress the need for mentors, perhaps the biggest challenge faced by these types of programs.&nbsp; I sure hope some of the SASUG members will take him up on the offer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always a pleasure to make the short drive down to attend the SASUG meetings.&nbsp; The group is friendly, personable, and very active during the meetings.&nbsp; There are always a few laughs thrown in for good measure too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s SASUG (pronounced &quot;sausage&quot; by the members) meeting was great as usual.&nbsp; Some familiar names were on hand to present &#8211; Webb Shoenfeld and Bruce Buck did terrific presentations (get those abstracts in guys), the BBQ was good (no<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/09\/its-always-good.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}