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WEFTEC 2013 Operator Ingenuity Contest – Needs Your Ingenious Fixes!

At WEFTEC 2012, the Operator Ingenuity Awards recognized simple, imaginative, inventive, and effective ways operators and managers found to overcome pesky problems.

Following last year’s success, WEFTEC 2013 is seeking more creative, innovative, and simple solutions to the persistent problems operators face every day. Often the big solutions come from a tweak here or a little fix there.

The competition is open to all clever ideas related to treatment processes, collection systems, laboratory practices, administration, human resources, you name it. The solution can be a physical tool or a new approach to an old problem.

WEFTEC wants to showcase these imaginative, inventive, and effective ways you’ve found to overcome those pesky problems. Selected inventors will be invited to give 10-minute presentations in the WEFTEC Innovation Pavilion.

So, pull together a roughly 1-page description of the problem you faced and the fix you found. If your invention or idea can be photographed, snap a picture an include that. Submitters do not have to write a full WEFTEC paper.

The bottom line: Even if you’re not sure that your innovation qualifies, submit it.

Visit www.weftec.org/ingenuity for more information.

Call for entries open until May 31