Annual scholarship helps persevering with training and certification
(Alexandria, Va.) — The Pool & Sizzling Tub Alliance (PHTA) is happy to announce the launch of the brand new Greg Garrett Scholarship Award. Developed by the PHTA Leisure Water High quality Committee (RWQC), this $5,000 scholarship shall be awarded to 1 PHTA member within the builder or service sector every year to make use of for PHTA instructional or certification charges. The appliance deadline for the 2022 scholarship is Friday, September 16.
This scholarship was developed as a tribute to Greg Garrett, who devoted 45 years to the pool, spa, and sizzling tub trade and served in lots of management roles within the RWQC, Builders Council, and Customary Writing Committees. He held the best honor inside PHTA as an Trade Fellow and was an awesome advocate for training and requirements. His enthusiasm was shared at committee conferences and all of the locations he traveled across the nation to show for varied commerce organizations. Garrett handed away in 2019.
To be thought-about for the Greg Garrett Scholarship Award, an utility kind and two suggestions have to be supplied. PHTA members can self-nominate or nominate a fellow member. After receiving the scholarship, the recipient should present a written report of what was discovered and the way that new information will advance their profession within the pool, spa, and sizzling tub trade.
The winner shall be honored on the PHTA Awards of Excellence Reception as a part of the Worldwide Pool | Spa | Patio Expo (PSP/Deck Expo) in Las Vegas, NV, on November 14, 2022.
“Greg Garrett was an educator and mentor to many, and his sudden passing impacted all who knew him. This scholarship created in his reminiscence has been many months within the making,” says Genevieve Lynn, PHTA Director of Requirements and Technical Providers. “By financially supporting the persevering with training and certification of our members, the Greg Garrett Scholarship Award helps PHTA additional its mission to teach and elevate the trade.”
For extra details about the Greg Garrett Scholarship Award and to submit an utility kind, go to the PHTA web site. Please ship any inquiries to requirements@phta.org.
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Concerning the Pool & Sizzling Tub Alliance
The Pool & Sizzling Tub Alliance (PHTA), a non-profit group with greater than 3,600 members from world wide, was established in 1956 to assist, promote, and shield the widespread pursuits of the $36.5B pool, sizzling tub, and spa trade. PHTA supplies training, advocacy, requirements improvement, analysis, and market development to extend our members’ professionalism, information, and profitability. Moreover, PHTA facilitates the growth of swimming, water security, and associated analysis and outreach actions geared toward introducing extra individuals to swimming, making swimming environments safer, and preserving swimming pools open to serve communities. For extra data, go to www.phta.org.
About PHTA’s Leisure Water High quality Committee (RWQC)
The Pool & Sizzling Tub Alliance’s RWQC develops and maintains verifiable science-based data concerning sanitization expertise and chemical merchandise, to be used in swimming pools, spas and sizzling tubs. The committee additionally helps develop the chemical and sanitation sections for American Nationwide Requirements Institute (ANSI)-approved PHTA requirements, together with the ANSI/APSP/ICC-11 American Nationwide Customary for Water High quality in Public Swimming pools and Spas. For a present itemizing of Committee members or extra data, e mail Genevieve Lynn, Director of Requirements and Technical Providers, at requirements@phta.org.
