IAMU is a proud sponsor of the Annual Shrimp & Bingo Scholarship Fundraiser to benefit the Water Environmental Technology (WET) Program at DMACC.

This year, the event will take place August 25, 2018 at the FFA Enrichment Center, DMACC Ankeny Campus.

• 5:30 PM -- Social Hour
•  6:30 PM -- Shrimp Feast - Followed by Bingo
  

Great Food! Great Prizes! Great Fun! Great Live Music!

Sponsorship Opportunities and Tickets are available.

Click here for sponsorship and ticket information

For more information contact:
Dennis Hayworth at 515-256-4925, dahayworth@dmacc.edu

It’s time once again for the Annual Iowa Children’s Water Festival, and the committee needs your help. The Water Festival will take place on Thursday, May 10, 2018 at the Des Moines Area Community College Ankeny Campus. Approximately 2,200 5th grade students from around Iowa have registered for the festival. We will need more than 200 volunteers to make this event happen. To learn more about volunteer opportunities and to sign up, click here.

Annual Event Raises $18,007 for Student Scholarships

Thanks to members who supported the 5th annual Shrimp and Bingo Scholarship Fundraiser, which raised $18,007 for the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) Foundation to fund DMACC Water Environmental Technology (WET) program scholarships for students.

Over the past five years, $93,534.50 has been raised in this annual fundraiser. A total of 153 students have received scholarships from this fundraiser.

People from the water and wastewater treatment industry, DMACC employees, including President Rob Denson, and students in the program attended the annual event last August. They  enjoyed a meal of shrimp, andouille sausage, with side dishes and great desserts, played bingo, and won great prizes. More than $4,000 worth of prizes were given during the event, including $250 worth of beef and pork raised by the DMACC Ag Department, tickets to a gourmet dinner prepared by DMACC Iowa Culinary Institute™ students, four tickets to an Iowa State University football game, an Iowa Getaway package, a  tool set, gift certificates of various amounts, and numerous smaller gift certificates.

The scholarships provided from money raised at the Shrimp and Bingo event make a difference to students. The water and wastewater industry needs highly skilled workers to keep pace with the demand to modernize and to replace numerous employees in the profession approaching retirement age.

The annual Shrimp and Bingo event is a collaboration between DMACC and several industry groups including the:

• Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities (IAMU)
•  Iowa Association of Water Agencies (IAWA)
•  Iowa Water Environment Association (IAWEA)
•  Iowa Section of American Water Works Association (IAWWA)
•  Iowa Rural Water Association (IRWA)
  

Planning is already underway for this year’s Shrimp and Bingo event to be held Saturday, August 26, 2017.