acaDEMY Live! - Sep 2026

📅 24 September 2026 – 25 September 2026 | 📍 Kittredge Center at Holyoke Community College
Certification professionals told us the training they needed was either too far away, too expensive to create in-house, or not relevant to their day-to-day.
So we built acaDEMY LIVE! These small-group sessions apply to your actual work, with regionally-specific topics that reflect the landscape where you operate.
One Michigan attendee put it this way:
“I do not exaggerate when I say that this event was downright fun. I can safely say that I never imagined myself laughing out loud at a presentation on pesticide residue test analysis.” – Abby King, Certification Decision Officer, NICS
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Source: nofamass.org
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