The staff welcomes you to the 7th Academy of Advanced and Challenge Enthusiasts. We hope to continue in the tradition of great challenge conventions managed so capably by Ed Foote and Lloyd "Sparky" Sparks.

The focus sessions for each morning are designed to give you an indepth look at calls and/or concepts for each program. You can find them on the schedule included in this booklet. Individual schedules for each day will be available at the registration desk.

Please fill out the "feedback" page, which is the last page of this booklet. Your input will help us to make the convention even better. To provide a balance, we plan to have both "open" and computer generated tips. Each tip that starts on the hour and half-hour will be open, and each tip starting on the quarter-hour or three-quarter-hour will be computer-generated.

Computer-generated squares

When you arrived, you were given a disc with a number on it - this is your number for the weekend. When you enter a dance hall, go to the computer operator's table and write your number on the "IN" side of the sheet that's on the table. For each computer-generated tip, check the computer screen and find your square - it'll be next to your number.

If you want to sit out a computer-generated tip, write your number on the "OUT" side of the sheet. When you want to dance again, write your number on the "IN" side of the sheet. Please do this well before the computer-generated tip.

If you want to change dance halls, PLEASE REMEMBER TO SIGN OUT of the hall you're leaving by writing your number on the "OUT" side of the computer sheet. When you arrive at the new dance hall, sign in by writing your number on the "IN" side of the sheet in that hall.

All computer operators will set everyone to "OUT" at the end of each session, so you must sign in at the beginning of each session.

Singles

AACE welcomes single dancers. You may pair up with another dancer for a tip or two, for a session, or for the whole weekend. If there are enough single dancers in any one hall who want to use a singles rotation, that is easy to organize. There are sheets for this purpose in all halls. One of the single dancers should maintain the rotation. Just write the names of dancers dancing as men on the left and list the dancers dancing as women beside them. After each tip, rotate the dancers dancing as women so they dance with another "man" for the next tip.

All single dancers have been given a number. If you are a single dancer and pair up with another single dancer, please ensure that only one of your numbers is in the computer.