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"When
it comes to speaking at conventions, I’m kind of the
new kid on the block. Because my curriculum series,
The Mystery of History, is still a work in
process, I can’t travel and speak as much as I would
like to. (Have to protect those writing hours.)
But this year I stretched my wings a bit, joined the
HSVA speaker’s bureau, and thus got myself out of
the basement and at a few more conventions than
normal.
"The experience so far has been incredible. With my
workshops and contact information posted on the
bureau, I have been invited to speak at conferences
that might not have found me otherwise. The
generous sponsors of these conferences think of
everything to help make these events meaningful as
well as profitable. My thanks to Steve Clark and
his staff for providing this awesome service to
better connect the homeschool world."
Linda Lacour Hobar, Author of
The Mystery of History
“Last
season I spent HOURS searching for conventions on the
Web with limited success. Even after finding a
convention it was a toss up as to the size of the
event and whether it would be worth my time. Having
hundreds of convention names, dates and full
information at my fingertips will more than earn me
back the membership fee. With the addition of
vendor tips and an avenue for communication, it will
be a great community!”
Jill Pike
Representative Coordinator
Institute for Excellence in Writing
"HSVA is filling a niche that has desperately needed
to be filled for years. It’s great to have a
one-stop location for finding dates for a
given conference, obtaining standardized expected
attendance figures, and more. Linking all players in
a conference – hosts, speakers, and vendors – is
becoming increasingly necessary as the homeschooling
movement grows, and I applaud HSVA for recognizing
and meeting this need."
Leah
Garber
Exhibit
Coordinator
Home
School Legal Defense Association
"Vendors and speakers, you know the
program--all winter we send out inquiries for
speaking opportunities, line up our conventions, and
pray that we make the right choices! This
takes countless hours of hard work--mostly hard
guess work. We never know what conventions we
are missing. Thanks to HSVA, that
whole process has become academic. With a
double click on an icon I suddenly have about 2
extra months to spend with my family and to work on
my business! Thank you HSVA!"
Dr. James Stobaugh
President
For Such A Time As This College Preparation
Resources
"Many
thanks for putting together this long overdue and
greatly needed site. Homeschooling
has been growing at an extraordinary rate, and this
site meets an important need of providing a
gathering place of all the scattered but valuable
information. Thank goodness, the endless hours
of poring over the computer, seeking current
information, are over. This will not only pay
off for conference planners, but also for the
individual homeschoolers, who will most certainly
see a greater quality and variety arising out of
this project."
Carol Barnier
Author
OpenGifts.org
"I am delighted at the
amount of time that the HSVA site has saved me!
Finding conventions alone used to eat up hours and
following dead links was frustrating. What a blessing
for all our reps to have easy access not only to the
conventions and dates, but all the other contact
information in ONE place! I am relatively new to this
business, but have enjoyed the community of HS
vendors. Having this place to share information will
continue to help us work together to bring great tools
to all those home educators out there!"
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