{"id":28099,"date":"2015-12-18T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2015\/12\/18\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-with-padt\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:55:27","slug":"star-wars-the-force-awakens-with-padt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2015\/12\/18\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-with-padt\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars &#8211; The Force Awakens with PADT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5592\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-5.webp \"  type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-5.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"137\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5592 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"padt-star-wars-vii-5\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/a>For an engineer, there are certain TV and Movie experiences that border on the religious &#8211; Star Wars is of course one of those. \u00a0That is why PADT&#8217;s main office in Tempe closed down today to head down the freeway to the Chandler to see Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens.<\/p>\n<p>Around 370 employees, family members, friends, vendors, former employees, and customers showed up for the 10:00 am showing. \u00a0We were confident that JJ Abrams would do a great job, because he did so well with an even more important franchise to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/blog\/news\/padt-celebrates-with-private-star-trek-showing\">PADT, Star Trek<\/a>. \u00a0We were not disappointed. \u00a0There were cheers, there was laughter, and several of us confessed in the lobby afterwards that we teared up a bit. \u00a0A true treat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5591\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5591\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-1.webp \"  type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-1.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-5591 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"padt-star-wars-vii-1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We had a 410 seat theater and about 350 RSVP&#8217;s . So we got a bit nervous as the seats filled up. We did get more unexpected people then we cancellations, but we had plenty of room and the more the merrier. Bottom line, the first two rows were empty. So prefect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I want to thank Josh Heaps here for putting it all together and for dealing with our constantly asking him about when and where it was and how many seats the theater had.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5590\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5590\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-2.webp \"  type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-2.jpg\" height=\"800\" width=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-5590 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"padt-star-wars-vii-2\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My friend Ryan, one of AZ&#8217;s biggest Star War fans, and our fantastic V.P from Chase, Camille, were great sports who dressed up and posed\u00a0for pictures. Not only does Camille constantly help make our banking a great experience, she jumps right in with our engineering fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is also a great venue to thank our customers and vendors for coming and for bringing your families. \u00a0We don&#8217;t get to see many of you often enough, and rarely outside of a meeting or a phone call. \u00a0Seeing the smiles on everyone&#8217;s face after the movie was, as they say, worth the price of admission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May the Force Be With You<\/p>\n<p>If you want to organize similar event to your colleagues, hire <a href=\"https:\/\/funworks.sg\/teambuilding\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">team building company in Singapore<\/a>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5588\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5588\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-4.webp \"  type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/padt-star-wars-vii-4.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-5588 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"padt-star-wars-vii-4\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That Opening Logo that We have All Been Waiting a Long Time to See.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an engineer, there are certain TV and Movie experiences that border on the religious &#8211; Star Wars is of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":28100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[757,758,1179,989],"post-podcast":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28099"},{"taxonomy":"post-podcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-podcast?post=28099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}