Welcome to Our Newly Designed Website

The Mid East Performance Association is constantly evolving and much of that evolution comes from listening. Listening to our judges, our audience, our performers, directors, and circuits throughout the nation. If you were to ask me what I find to be the most interesting and exciting part of our activity, it’s the evolution that we see each year. What we learned last year will be yesterday’s news this year. This evolution makes our activity dynamic but as a circuit, it can be difficult and costly to keep up with this evolution without asking our members to pay dues that cause a strain on their budget.

The new MEPA website was designed with you in mind. You, the new director, wanted more educational articles so we created an area that we’re calling the Education Corner where we will regularly post articles that will help both the new and experienced director as they continue to evolve. Send us your topic requests, or even better, if you would like to write an article that would be a benefit to all of us, we would love to post it.

I’ve also included an area called The President’s Blog. Your MEPA board of directors works harder than you know. They are constantly thinking of new ways to make your circuit a little better than it was by keeping up with our constantly evoloving activity. I will keep you informed and give you insight in to what we’re talking about that would be of interest to you.

While there are many more features on the new site that you will learn about as the 2010 season comes at us, let me tell you of one more. One of the top requests that I’ve heard is that you want scores online quickly. I’m personally taking the lead on designing a scoring system that will allow us to post scores nearly in real time. When our units learn their score, so can you. This will not be unveiled until December but it’s in the works.

Finally, I would invite you to continue to give us feedback. Take a look around and let me know what you think. The summer has produced a lot of exiting news to share with you for the 2010 season. I will be sharing this with you in the near future.