The Importance of Belonging to the Local SCTE Chapter

Your membership to the local Wheat State Chapter is important and inexpensive. The yearly membership runs from January through December. If you join after July 1st, your membership extends through the end of the following year. By being a members of the Wheat State Chapter, you help support our chapter financially. The chapter every year supports members sent to the Cable Tec Expo and the Mid America Show. Additionally, if you are certified in the BCT/E program, you can count on your yearly membership as a recertification point each year. Our meeting fees of $15 have remained unchanged since the chapter started in 1989. Each year we hold 6 seminars that cover a wide range of technical information important to our members. Belonging to the National SCTE does not make you a member of the local chapter. You can belong to the local chapter and not the National SCTE, but we highly encourage you to join the National as well.

The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers is a non-profit professional association dedicated to advancing the careers and serving the industry of telecommunication professionals by providing technical training, certification and standards. Since 1969, the SCTE has continually expanded its resources and services to meet the changing needs of its members in a rapidly evolving industry. Today, more than 16,000 engineers, technical professionals, installers, and managers depend upon the SCTE to deliver the tools they need to maintain their competitive edge.

As the only cable telecommunications organization accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop technical standards, the SCTE provides a neutral forum for professionals to collaborate on standards that lead the way to global compatibility.

Our local Wheat State Chapter is dedicated to these same principals. The seminars are great opportunities for individuals to receive training on a variety of topics at a very reasonable rate. In order to keep pace with today's evolving technology, we all must take advantage of every chance available to increase our technical knowledge.