State Conference
2023
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Important Deadlines

Hotel Deadlines

Registration Deadlines

*There is no late registration week.

Payment Deadlines

All payments must be received in full by mail or online by the below dates. TPSA will NOT accept purchase orders for State Competition. Contact the TPSA Treasurer for additional payment questions.

Registration

Rates

How-To-Register

To register for state competition, log in to the myTPSA system and find your State Conference Login information under your chapter in the same place regional login was.

1. Login and access the State Conference System
2. Confirm preloaded Student Registrations, Events, T-shirt sizes
3. Submit any Substitution/Drop Requests by Creating a Special Request in myTPSA.
   • Please select BOTH the old and new members of the substitute.
   • In the notes, make sure you specify who is switching with who in WHICH EVENT.
   • Failure to specify in detail what is happening will result in denial.
   • No more than 50% of any team may be substituted for State Competition.
   • The substitutes must have attended and competed at a regional competition, not in the same event.
   • Only emergency substitution requests will be considered after the close of registration.
4. Add any Advisors by clicking “Add Advisor”
5. Add any Guests that are not already listed to your Registration by clicking on “ Add Guest/Other”
6. Submit Registration and Pay

Volunteers

Registration

1. Registration for volunteers will be done via GivePulse Volunteer Registration System. You must have the volunteer enter your Chapter ID Number during registration to avoid penalties.
2. Information for how to register volunteers will be posted by 2/17/2023

Policies

• All schools are required to bring 2 volunteers, with at least one of them being an adult( 18 or older) volunteer.
• Failure to bring 2 volunteers for the duration of the event will result in a $250 charge being levied against your school.
• Volunteers must be registered in GivePulse with your Chapter ID prior to the deadline to avoid penalty.
• Failure to complete assigned/selected shifts will result in a $250 charge levied against your school.
• Volunteers must be available for the duration of the event, shifts will be assigned/selected prior to competition.
• Schools must not have an outstanding balance with TPSA to compete. Failure to bring volunteers will result in an outstanding balance if the school does not provide payment for the volunteer penalty with their registration.

Rooming

TPSA has partnered with the Marriott Dallas Allen to provide housing at a discounted rate to attendees. All attendees are required to stay at the Marriott Dallas Allen for the duration of the event.

• Schools who are inside of a 75 mile radius to the hotel are NOT required to book rooms at the conference.
• Schools who fail to book rooms at the Marriott Dallas Allen hotel will not be permitted to compete. If the hotel is not able to accommodate you, please contact the TPSA President Johnnie Shepherd to request an exemption.

How to Book

Advisors must make arrangements with the hotel by visiting their booking portal or calling them. TPSA does not handle hotel reservations.

The TPSA block will be released to general public sales after March 13th. Any Late registrations/reservations are made at your own risk of rooms not being available at the group rate.

Prices

• All hotel rooms booked include complimentary breakfast for their occupants.
• The Hotel must receive payments in full for all rooms by April 14th. The hotel will release rooms that are unpaid after this date.

Parking

Schedule

This schedule is tentative and is subject to change. Preliminary individual event schedules will be posted on 03/15/2023. Closing ceremony start time is dependent on the finalizing of scores and may start later than 6:30 pm. Schools should not plan to return/drive back Wednesday night anytime before 11:00 pm.

Food

TPSA provides meals to paid attendees, volunteers, judges, and staff. Please see the below meal options for specific information.

*Volunteers will only receive meals if registered via GivePulse; volunteers will receive lunch Tuesday/Wednesday and a hospitality room with drinks/snacks.

Options

Lunch will be a concession-style entrée, chips, drink and cookies. For help with dietary restrictions, please get in touch with conferences@tpsa.info.