Video Games, NFPA Expo & MeyerFire Openings

Conventional training tends to be boring. I don't know that this is really news to anyone.

I know it to be true because if you tell a stranger on an airplane that you're in training, their eyes start to glaze over before they go to use the restroom and never return. I won't say whether or not this has happened to me.

Well, the learning, skill, and real knowledge part of what training should be is extremely important. With our shortage of skilled professionals and the ever-increasing demand for better fire protection, we need it now more than ever.

What doesn't fail to keep our attention? Video games. 

It's engagement. Interest. Interactivity.

That's the inspiration behind what we've put over 1,200 hours and counting into our latest 360-degree simulated environments. It's learning by engaging; yet accessed anywhere at any time.

​New Fire Pump Room Simulator on MeyerFire University

On this coming Monday at the NFPA Expo in Orlando, we're debuting our latest 360-degree simulation that'll also run live on MeyerFire University.

It's an immersive virtual fire pump room where you can control valves, see the supervision, see voltage and amperage loads, flow hoses through the test header, check fire alarm supervision, and even test yourself in three different challenges inside the environment.

We're excited, and this is just the beginning of what's to come in the learning space. 

What's the #1 best way to learn? Go out in the real world with a skilled mentor, walk the jobsites, see the tests, and get firsthand experience.

What's the second-best way to learn? Spend that same time and go to ten or twenty different virtual job sites and challenge yourself in ways that are impractical or impossible in the real world. 

We want uninhibited, engaging learning - because that's the only way for the information to 'stick' and transition from 'hearing' to 'knowing.' 

​New Fire Pump Room Simulator on MeyerFire University

​NFPA EXPO
If you're in Orlando next week for the NFPA Expo, check it out and play it with us at Booth #404. I can't wait for many of you to see it in person.

If you're not attending and are already at MeyerFire University, look for your update email Monday morning with links to the new simulation. Then, let us know what you think right on the 'Discuss' page for the simulation. We can't wait to hear your thoughts.

MEYERFIRE OPPORTUNITIES
Related to this, now's probably a great time to iterate that we have multiple ways for you to get more involved in what we do in the learning space - writing, editing, teaching, modeling - by joining us in paid roles.

Are you all about impacting the industry? Are you a detail-oriented person? Are you the creative type? Good at mentoring? Like creating games? Like to write fiction on the side of reviewing suppression or alarm systems? Great at modeling (... the fire systems stuff)? Great at writing?

If any of those strike a chord, you might be a great candidate to help us out in part-time roles. Learn more about what we have open today at www.meyerfire.com/openings. 

Thanks, as always, for your interest in bettering the industry and for being part of the community you've helped build here.

Have a great rest of your week.

- Joe