Blaze is our new mascot, partnering with "Get Kids Into Survey." Blaze is designed to help attract grade school and middle school kids, into professional survey careers. You'll be seeing lots more of Blaze in the future!
Here’s our “Blaze the BRPELS Bigfoot Bio”
1. Company Name – State of Washington, Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors (BRPELS)
2. Location – Washington State (in the woods, usually!)
3. Why is it important for your company to help Get Kids into Survey?
Our agency helps grow our profession and promote professional licensing for surveyors. We help kids who love the outdoors and technology, have fun learning about surveying.
4. What do you do?
I roam the Northwest woods, searching for missing or buried survey monuments, measuring distances and mapping hills and valleys.
5. How long have you been in the survey industry?
About five years, but my family has been surveying about 10 million years.
6. How did you end up getting into the geospatial industry?
I already love the outdoors, math and learning new things. Now, this great technology makes it even more accurate and it's fun!
7. State a funny fact about you…
I'm the reigning hide and seek world champion! 🤣
8. Favorite piece of equipment and why?
The data collector because it does the math for me!
10. Our website: brpels.wa.gov
11. How did you choose the character and what does he/she/it represent? Our Bigfoot represents the Northwest, the outdoors, professional surveying and FUN!