Tucson Section Officer Board

Meeting Minutes for January 2006

 

Next meeting is Tuesday, February 7th.

El Parador at 6:00 PM

 

ATTENDEES: 

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

 

TREASURER:

  • Check was signed to Pat H for Picnic expenses
    • Park rates going down next year….maybe do rocket launch there. UA Bear Down field cost us about ~$95.00
  • Account Balance ~$2527.37
  • Patrick suggests sitting down and making a better budget other then the official budget so we can more closely track our expenses.

 

  • Wednesday January 18th Matt will be working on AIAA things if there are any questions.

 

KIDS CLUB:

  • Jan 21st is WindTunnel and Serina Deniga with math based workshop
    • Split group into two and 1hr 20 each and then switch.
    • Hopefully Adrian will be there to help me.
    • Start at 8:30, session begins at 9:00.  One volunteer by door.
    • Start in the classroom (309) Me in the Atrium
    • Serina will use the white board.
    • Matt to meet up with Sara Friday afternoon 1:00 PM somewhere.
    • Matt to email Sara with details.
    • Matt to get student section volunteers.
  • Feb 18th 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.
  • March 25th is Mars - John Keller to teach
  • April 22nd is Rockets (with eggs).
    • It’ll cost about $200.00 total.
  • SMART will be coming up in late March early April.
  • Sara will need to be reimbursed for her travel expenses (hotel, food, etc. Flights have already been taken care of).

 

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER

·        John McMasters (“Airplane Design; Past, Present, & Future”) has agreed to present his airplane talk on March 9th or 16th. 

·        I am checking with PASM to see if they have a preference

·        PASM will give us the room for free.

·        Paleo might be the best talk

·        Maybe a joint meeting with ASME

 

WEBSITE:

  • We should investigate having Robert Wagoner host the web site, since he did it before when he was webmaster (late 1990s).
  • The club could buy space.
  • We could investigate PMAM
  • Site should be linked on national

 

NEWSLETTER:

  • We'll get the next Newsletter out this month
  • We need to ask for people to add our email address to their spam filter acceptance list.
  • 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
  • Sara to add boyscout article
  • Aerial Robotics article (Frank)
  • Solicit Pima for a very interesting article to add to a future newsletter (like contrails)

 

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

  • Continued Camera Tests.
  • Sara is not crazy about aerial robotics
  • Robert Wagoner appointed Assistant Director of the Aerial Robotics Advisory Committee.

 

ACTION ITEMS:

  • Sara to get in touch with Adrian and give her money for snacks and whatnot.
  • Matt to ask specific questions regarding our specific events and our AIAA insurance coverage
  • Matt and Pat couldn’t find Sara’s Receipt.  Pat to pay a receipt for $55 dollars to Sara.  Matt to document the confusion.
  • 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.