Schedule for the day
All day
Registration packages: pickup from 7:30
Coffee & snacks: Gym
Vendor booths: Gym
BCTEA 2026 AGM
12:30 pm · Gather Space / Aviary
Chair: Andy Strothotte · Secretary: Matthew Lee
A Zoom link will be provided for those attending virtually.
Chair: Andy Strothotte · Secretary: Matthew Lee
A Zoom link will be provided for those attending virtually.
- Call the meeting to order
- Appoint the secretary for the AGM
- BCTEA President’s welcome & Land acknowledgement · Andy Strothotte
- Count of PSA members present, confirm that there is a quorum.
- Motion: to adopt the agenda.
- Motion: to adopt the minutes of the June 2026 SGM.
- Selection of scrutineers in case of an election.
- Treasurer’s report · Mykola Misiak
- Presentation of the 2025/2026 financial report. Motion: That the official 2025-26 BCTEA year-end financial statement be approved as presented.
- Presentation of the 2026-2027 budget. Motion: That the 2026-27 budget for the BCTEA be approved as presented.
- Amendment of BCTEA membership fees · Andy Strothotte
Motion: to amend the current BCTEA membership rates as follows:
Membership Current New BCTF member $30 $50 Student / retired $20 $30 Subscriber (non-BCTF) $55 $75 - BCTEA Awards · Nigel Reedman
- 2026 Excellence in Teaching Award
- 2026 WRF Seal (top UBC)
- 2026 Peter Trant (top BCIT)
- Executive elections
- President (2-year term)
- Communications (2-year term)
- Vendor liaison (2-year term)
- Member at large (2-year term)
- Questions from the membership
- Announcement of the 2027 BCTEA conference location
- Call for 2028 conference host school
- Door prizes
- Motion: to adjourn.
Royal Bay Secondary
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Social & dinner: 6 Mile Pub
From 5:00 pm. Cash bar; last call 9:30 pm.
Dinner ticket holders: give the meal voucher in your badge sleeve to your server.
Thank you to our vendors
- Adam’s Tarp & Tool
- Automation Studio / Famic Technologies
- BCTF
- CFBC
- iDesign 365
- Industrial Plastics & Paints
- KMS Tools
- Milwaukee
- Progressive Educational Systems
- Reimer Hardwoods
- Robotix Education
- SD62 Career Education
- Skills Canada BC
- SkilledTradesBC
- Torchrite Solutions
- UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing
- UBC Forestry
- West Wind Hardwood
- WorkSafeBC
The BCTEA Executive and the conference planning committee thank all participants, presenters, volunteers and vendors. See you next year!