Yellowknife (May 09/03) - The annual spring trade show gives local businesses the chance to tell Yellowknifers about services and products they offer. Entrepreneurs do this by setting up booths in a way that draws potential customers to them.

Click It! and Smart Communities are partnering up for their first year at the show.

Together the two companies will set up four to six computers and will have a projector and present a slide show on a large screen.

The slides will be comprised of astronomy photos as well as sights from the Northern sky, like the Aurora Borealis.

Click It! will present their design templates and demonstrate their training.

Michael Corbett, the executive director of Smart Communities, has a similar motivation for attending the show for the first time.

"(We have) a product and a portal that we want the community to know about," Corbett said.

He is speaking of its Web site www.looknorth.ca. Corbett hopes the trade show will let people know about Smart Communities' information and communications technology.

Corbettalso hopes to raise interest about a public kiosk he plans to put in the Northern Frontier's Visitors' Centre and later on at the airport and hospital.

Newcomer Gibson Communications will set up a booth as part of a promotion of speaker Dr. Dan Madankataria who is coming to town on May 28.

"The show's schedule worked very well with this event we're having," said owner Dane Gibson. "It allows us to talk with a lot of people at one time."

The Buffalo School of Aviation will have an engine set up at their booth that students will be working on. Spectators will get the chance to see what students get to do in the aviation program.

At the trade show, the school will also showcase projects students have done.

"It will be a visual that shows two years of training," said Michael Handley, public relations officer for Buffalo Airways.

Diamond Glass has rented three booths and will set up window and door displays.

The display will showcase the company's abilities to put in siding, hardware, mirrors and skylights.

Regular booth renter Northwestel Cable Inc. will set up a number of television sets and a camera.