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Welcome to the Wolfpack, Jen!

Go Wolfpack!

Congratulations to SkyBound team member Jen Pettit who will be joining the staff of our client (and my alma mater) NC State University later this month!

We’re always proud when such fine institutions recognize the talents of our team members, and we think Jen will make an excellent addition to the Wolfpack. However, Jen won’t be completely MIA at SkyBound. Many clients will remember that Jen worked with SkyBound extensively before coming aboard full time, and we fully expect that to continue!

We asked Jen a few questions about her new role, and what it all means for those clients who’ve become accustomed to her face and working with her on a daily basis.

You’re going to be what and where?

In my new role as a Multimedia Web Designer at NCSU DELTA, I will be designing & developing course web sites, web templates, and user-interface solutions for web-based instruction and online learning.

What are you most excited about?

Using the skills I’ve honed at SkyBound to tackle the challenge of designing fully digital courses that successfully emulate the in-person classroom experience. For example: if a student skips their homework for an online course, my job is to ensure they get that same “guilty” feeling that they would experience when telling a professor in person in a real live class!

What are you least excited about?

Having to scale back my hours with SkyBound, and having less one-on-one time with our awesome clients. (also, having to put on “business clothes” every day to go to an office that has zero dogs available for lunchtime pets & snuggles. Whomp whomp.)

What does this mean for clients?

While I will still be working with the SkyBound team on a regular basis, starting this Thursday 3/9 I will be scaling back my hours and won’t be as involved on a daily basis. Moving forward, please copy [email protected] on all emails so we can ensure your request gets efficiently assigned and handled.

How can clients get in touch with you?

Same ways as usual! My email and phone number remain the same, as I will still be working with the SkyBound team regularly.

But how will you keep yourself entertained and happy when you’re not hanging out in Zoom with Kyle & JP all day, every day?

It’s going to be tough, but I’ve been preparing myself. To start, I’ve been training for the Tar Heel 10 Miler in Chapel Hill on April 22. This race is 10 miles full of—you guessed it—hills. Yikes! Feel free to join me!

On the artistic side, I’ve picked up encaustic wax painting which involves painting, carving, and fusing melted wax. This is exactly as difficult and messy as you probably imagine. You can follow my encaustic painting experiments and other artistic endeavors on instagram.

 

Jen, we appreciate your hard work at SkyBound on behalf of our clients, and we’ll simply have to learn to share your amazing talents with the Wolfpack!

ACE Nabs World Record from Germany

On June 3, 2012, ACE Adventure Resort attempted to break the world record of the most people on a zip line in one hour. Not only did they break the previous world record… they shattered it.

ACE Adventure Resort sent 183 people down a 204 feet zip line named “Sunshine Zip.” The previous record held in Germany consisted of 122 zips down a 164 feet zip line. It will take a couple weeks for the record to be reviewed and verified by officials at Guinness, but we already consider it a major success for ACE.

At Sunday morning’s check-in you could truly feel the excitement and energy of every person involved. People arrived as early 6:30 am for the 9:00 am check-in. Participants were given a blue commemorative t-shirt while staff members wore the same design in orange. The sea of blue and orange t-shirts was impressive. 

Behind the scenes, staff members were moving at break-neck speed. Before participants could even get to the zip line, they had to be geared up at a tent across from the trail. One guide commented that it was like working behind a fashion show— people climbing out of their gear as fast as possible to get the next group of zippers ready to go! It may have looked hectic, but the system got everyone harnessed in and ready to go with plenty of time.

Everyone got a little practice on our zip line tour, participants had to zip through the shorter Mighty Mouse zip line to get to the actual zip line being used for the challenge, Sunshine Zip. Once clipped in and cleared for take off, each person sped through each zip and then was quickly dismounted by trained guides. By the end of the day, the guides’ arms were bruised and beaten from working so quickly. I’d say they did a pretty great job—The average amount of time it took to cross 204 feet of zip line was approximately 20 seconds!

At roughly 1:15 pm the record was broken. Cheers could be heard throughout the impressive 1500-acre ACE property. It was a great way for folks from all kinds of backgrounds to come together and work as a team for a common goal. When the final horn buzzed, it was a goose bumps moment. Beyond the hoots and hollers were hugs, smiles and an overwhelming sense of community. We had become a team and will be forever bonded together with the bragging rights to say, “I’m a World Record Holder.”

Two clients partner for PBS special

Filming just wrapped on an upcoming episode of Growing a Greener World (PBS) with Joe Gardener that will feature local companies Nature’s GREEN-RELEAF™ and Atlantic Mulch. The award winning gardening program selected these companies as the premier compost producer and distributor in the region.

Growing a Greener World features the latest in gardening trends, sustainability, and eco-friendly living. This episode will feature a behind the scenes look at how sustainable, commercially-produced compost is made, how to know the quality of what you’re buying, and how it’s best used. It will also feature a close up of delivery and installation methods for Do-It-Yourselfers with bulk delivery for ultimate cost-savings, super sacks for spot placement, and even state-of-the-art blower truck tech (What would take a 3-man crew a whole day to spread, can be achieved in just one hour).

Get an insider’s view of how it’s all made and all the wonderful benefits so you can be sure that you’re making the right choice for your lawn and garden.

The episode is scheduled to air in mid-July.


See Nature’s GREEN-RELEAF products at Atlantic Mulch.

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