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26th Annual Corn Party
Mark your calendar for 5 days of "Family, Friendship, Learning & Fun" with your fellow MAiZE family members as we make our way to the great state of Texas for the 26th annual Corn Party.
March 5
Evening Registration & Vendor Trade Show
March 6
Morning Vendor Show & Afternoon/Evening Farm Bus Tour
March 7
Meeting Day at Hotel & Dinner at Pedrotti's Ranch
March 8
See San Antonio Bus Tour
March 9
Post-Conf Road Trip to Dewberry Farm & Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo + Luke Bryan Concert
La Cantera Resort
San Antonio Conference Hotel
16641 La Cantera Pkwy | 210-558-6500
This beautiful resort is located on 550 acres of rolling hills in Texas Hill Country, just 20 minutes from the airport and from downtown San Antonio. Our block rate includes several specially-negotiated amenities listed below and is available through Feb. 3, or until our block fills.
Block rate of $289 + a discounted $10 resort fee is available for the nights of March 5, 6, 7 and 8 (plus 3 days pre and post if available) An additional $12 is charged for triple occupancy or $24 for quadruple occupancy if selecting more than 2 guests when booking your room.
Free Parking
Free Wi-Fi
Shuttle to local area
For those participating in the Houston road trip on March 9, you'll want to check out of La Cantera on March 9. Info will soon be shared on a recommended hotel in Houston for that night, as we assume most will be flying home from there.
*Rooms are still available for March 6, 7 and 8. Currently March 5 is sold out, but you can get on a waiting list for that night or get an overflow link by emailing kamille@themaize.com.
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Holiday Inn Express
Houston Road Trip Hotel - March 9
9300 S. Main St., Houston | 832-371-9300
For those making the road trip to Houston, this hotel is located within walking distance of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.
Block rate of $205 for March 9
Free Parking
Free Wi-Fi
Free Breakfast
Deadline to cancel March 7
If you are opting to ride the bus to Houston, this is the hotel where the bus will drop you. You could then Uber the next day to the airport. It is 12 miles from Houston Hobby airport and 27 miles from the Bush airport.
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Airports | Transportation
San Antonio
The closest airport to fly into is the San Antonio International Airport. It is 20 minutes from the La Cantera hotel and the average Uber cost is $30.
Houston Airport
For those participating in the Houston road trip on March 9, you'll want to take an Uber from the hotel and fly home from one of Houston's two airports on March 10.
- Houston Hobby Airport (12 miles from hotel)
- George Bush Intercontinental Airport (27 miles from hotel)
Road Trip Options
If you signed up for the Houston road trip on March 9, you can either drive/rent your own vehicle, or sign up to ride the bus by clicking HERE.
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Agenda
*subject to changes
Agenda Highlights
Texas Learning
We are excited to learn from leaders from several San Antonio destinations, including Morgan's Wonderland, a park for everyone. After finding success in business, Gordon Hartman turned his focus to a greater mission: building a world where everyone belongs. We'll learn the inspiration behind Morgan’s Wonderland — the world’s first ultra-accessible theme park — created for Gordan's daughter Morgan, where 100% of the population can play.
A vision where inclusion is the standard — not the exception.
Lessons from Legends
Continuing the tradition started in 2024, we'll once again learn from some of our industry's top leaders with a Lessons from Legends presentation in our general session. We're excited this year to welcome our friends Chuck & Kama Bozeman, former owners of Yesterland Farm in TX, as this year's speakers. Having recently sold their farm and retired from agritourism, they'll share their journey and some of the lessons learned since they opened Yesterland as a Christmas tree farm in 2000.
Keynote Speakers
Having previously spoken to us 15 years ago, we look forward to welcoming Frank Price back as one of this year's speakers. For more than 25 years, Frank's focus has been to educate family-oriented businesses on producing remarkable events. He specializes in providing the tools to build the perfect staff and the development of a customer service to guest experience culture. As founder of Birthday University, he'll share systems and processes that redefine the way we do business.
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Award Categories
This year's Corn Party will once again include Best of the Best award contests, recognizing members of our MAiZE family in the following categories:Â
Best new idea (to be shared in Corn Party slideshow)Â Â
Best marketing
Best maze aerial Â
Best video or commercialÂ
Best apparel design​​ Â
Best photo opp
Most unique food
Best safety tool
We encourage all of you to enter by our deadline of February 23. The winner of each category will be recognized at the Corn Party.
How to Enter
CLICK HERE to submit ideas by February 23.
For the BEST NEW IDEAS category, all entries will be shown in the Best Ideas Slideshow at the Corn Party. Ideas can range from new attractions, new maze games, new products or alterations to your food operation that increased profitability, employee hiring/training/incentive ideas, etc. Really anything that either increased revenue, improved the customer experience, improved employee performance or decreased your stress as an owner! Please include a photo or image visually demonstrating the idea and a brief description of how it helped you to be more successful.
For all other categories, entries will be posted here online after February 24 for MAiZE members to vote on and winners will be announced at the Corn Party (don't need to be in attendance to win).
Best of the Best
Click above for details
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Places to Explore On Own
If you'll have a car, here are a few sites to see on your own.
The annual MAiZE Siteowner’s Conference is a wonderful opportunity to expose your products or services, in a face-to-face setting, with more than 400 of our corn maze operators. Each year, the conference features an intimate vendor display area, where a handful of companies are invited and given permission to share their information with the attendees.
Participate
SET UP A DISPLAY: Register for an 8x10 booth space where you can share your products/services firsthand on March 5-6.
SUBMIT A FLIER and/or sample to be included in each attendee's conference registration bag by signing up for the vendor packet.Â
SPONSOR the Corn Party for added exposure. Email kamille@themaize.com for a list of sponsorship options.
AUCTION: Want added exposure, while contributing to a good cause? Register a live or silent auction item, benefitting the MAiZE's college and humanitarian scholarship fund.
Please email raquel@themaize.com with any questions. Â
Registration
CLICK HERE for booth registration
CLICK HERE to sign up to insert a flier in our attendee vendor packet if not attending.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 5
12-4 PM Trade Show Set Up
4-9 PMÂ Â Trade Show Open
Friday, March 6
9 AM-1 PM Trade Show
1 PM Tear Down
Exhibitors
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