<HTML>In a message dated 7/21/02 8:30:47 PM Central Daylight Time, mickeykes2@uf.znet.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Maybe at future regionals and nationals, there could be a series of classes specifically designed to help train Associates to pass the RPT exams.  Hands-on tuning, hands-on regulating, and hands-on basic repair classes, focused directly on the skills needed to pass the exams, would undoubtedly up the number of RPTs dramatically. Tossing modesty to the wind for a moment, let me just add that I have experience in Industrial Training design and am currently a college professor, so if there's any interest in my suggestion, and if I can be of any help, I would be more than happy to help put together such a curriculum. Just my two pennies. Mark (Mickey) Kessler </XMP> </BLOCKQUOTE> Dear professor Kessler (Mickey) Thank you for making this observation. This is exactly the point I have trying to make to the "powers that be" in the PTG for several years. Perhaps it coming from a college professor, maybe someone will finally listen. Wim </HTML>