TWICE News and Views

Are you participating in Read Around the Planet this year? Here’s an update on what’s happening:

Verification
Verification is coming along very nicely. I’m very pleased with where we are.

• Last year we had about 870 equipment profiles entered (which turned into 1650 participating classes).
• This year we have 1359 equipment profiles entered. You do the math! Looks like we’re in for another good increase!
• 1100 of those profiles are verified. Yesterday I emailed another 60 people who participated last year and just need to do self-certification or re-verification. There are about 40 equipment profiles that we’re currently working on for verification. So we’re keeping up quite nicely thanks to our wonderful verification partners.

Equipment Profile Stats
Just for kicks, get a flavor of who participates in Read Around the Planet by looking at the locations represented. These are the number of equipment profiles for each state/country. (They don’t match the numbers above because a few people don’t have their profile set up right. So don’t check the math!)

• 2 Australia
• 157 Canada
• 85 AB
• 1 BC
• 67 SK
• 4 QC
• 7 United Kingdom
• 1192 United States
• 2 AK
• 6 AL
• 8 AZ
• 28 CA
• 1 CT
• 1 GA
• 1 IA
• 8 IN
• 1 FL
• 36 KS
• 7 MA
• 9 MD
• 322 MI
• 8 MN
• 2 MO
• 2 NC
• 16 ND
• 3 NE
• 2 NH
• 22 NJ
• 1 NV
• 129 NY
• 78 OH
• 1 OK
• 44 PA
• 19 SC
• 2 SD
• 1 TN
• 391 TX
• 7 VA
• 6 WA
• 14 WI
• 9 WV

Registration
Considering that last year we were slow to open registration (Dec. 15!), we’re doing very well to have 291 registrations at this moment. We already have a couple from Australia and the United Kingdom!

Note: For those of you outside the EST time zone, you’ll notice the times are listing wrong for your registrations. They are recorded right, just reporting wrong. We hope to have that fixed next week.

Participation
If you haven’t yet participated in Read Around the Planet, maybe this is the year to start! Get started with the instructions on the RAP website.