Last night while the judges were relaxing in preparation for today’s Student Marketing Competition, the students were doing a little prepping themselves. All around the Hyatt, you could see members of the 31 competing teams practicing their presentations, Q&A’s and making final tweaks.

Here is a photo of several of the Iowa State students who were making some final changes while the rest of their team made changes on other elements of the presentation. I should confess that I harassed them for a bit, but only because they are from my alma mater. I must have brought them a bit of good luck because they made it, along with 15 other teams into the semi finals this afternoon.

Now, I could be speaking out of turn here, but I believe that the team that traveled the farthest is from Hawaii and I caught them in a happy moment after their presentation today. NAMA couldn’t have a better group of students and advisers representing the state of Hawaii.

I have also been going around and taking photos of all the teams so if you haven’t had your photo taken yet, please find me and visit our 2010 National Agri-Marketing Conference Photo Album where you’ll see photos of all our student competitors.

Good luck to all of the teams! Your hard work and professionalism has not gone unnoticed!

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