Tucson Section Officer Board

Meeting Minutes for December 2005

Next meeting is Tuesday, January 3rd.

ATTENDEES:

Matt Angiulo, Maren McRae, Sara Falconer, Frank Manning, Patrick Craine, Doug May

TREASURER:

• Section Budget was submitted.
• Rebate Checks came in (about 2K)
• Picnic reimbursement took place at meeting.
• Account Balance ~$3028.37

KIDS CLUB:

• One kid disappeared so we now have 27 total.
• Session with Brian Ewenson went great.
• Taught of the many advances that came out of the Space Program.
• Sara still insists that Al Gore invented the internet. Doug May claims that it had something to do with the military.
• Doug suggested doing the Challenger missions there.
• We’ll definitely do it again next year.
• Jan 21st is a Solar Weather and Astronomy session
• TAAA will show up with telescopes
• Steve Ratts and Melissa Williams from the Flandreau to organize
• Matt A to support in Sara’s absence – Matt to get the key on .
• Next kids club on February 18^th.
• Session still in limbo. Maybe we’ll do wind tunnel, math, & pendulum.
• March 25^th is Mars - John Keller to teach
• April 22^nd is Rockets (with eggs).
• It’ll cost about $200.00 total.
• SMART will be coming up in late March early April.
• We’ll probably do a repeat of the 18^th.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER

· Scott Miller (“World of Secret Flight”) has not responded to any requests.

· John McMasters (“Airplane Design; Past, Present, & Future”) has responded with the following:

o “at this point it looks like March 9 or 16 may be possible. I’ll have to make this a ‘tentative” right now, but will get back to you as soon as possible for confirmation”.

· William Chana (“Spirit of St. Louis” or “Wee Bee”) will be contacted if McMasters turns us down.

WEBSITE:

• Mixer announcement is up there.
• Sara is tired of Christmas music.
• Mixer pictures are uploaded.
• Frank is going to look into moving the site to the permanent AIAA webspace.

NEWSLETTER:

• We'll get the next Newsletter out in January
• Distinguished Lecturer article (Matt)
• Picnic article (Pat Craine)
• Softball Tournament article (Pat Haley)
• We still have the Wind tunnel and Build Space articles
• Different types of articles from different chairs....try to focus
• - That’s what they grade us on.

HOLIDAY PARTY MIXER Picnic:

• All students showed up and they beat us.
• All had a great time. We can do again cheap.
• Need to get a better word out (newsletter).
• Need a real professional team.
• Maybe get some section managers out.
• Skyboxs are all sold out.
• Flyer didn’t get the word out.
• We can do a mid day BBQ and Picnic instead.
• Pat to arrange a softball tournament.
• Student section already has a team.
• We’ll come up with some prizes for the winning team.
• Do something for Kids. Maybe Santa?
• Should do it on Saturday December 3^rd. (or the following week)
• We should look at the membership list to see where to do the picnic.
• Matt suggests Randolph Park.
• Sara is sick of salad but not chips.

Tucson Soaring Club Event:

• Doug met an instructor (Richard Barns) at the El Tiro Gliderport (Northwest – by I-10, half way to pinal air park)
• Doug will investigate options for having an event out there.
• We could potentially do a joint meeting with ASME. (We should invite them to our next event regardless)

AERIAL ROBOTICS

• 1^st Camera test. Successful but there are some resolution questions.
• Meeting with Dr. Fasel at UofA to keep up relations and preventing misunderstandings.

ACTION ITEMS:

• Matt to find Sara’s Costco receipt.
• Forward Dan’s info to Sara
• Matt to find someone regarding GBU-15 that may want to volunteer with Pima guidance.
• Matt to see about a permanent AIAA display at PASM.