Tucson Section Officer Board

Meeting Minutes for February 2006

Next meeting is Tuesday,March 7th.

El Parador at 6:00 PM

ATTENDEES:

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

TREASURER:

• Account Balance ~$2375.37 minus bank fees
• Matt needs to be reimbursed for kids club expenses ~$125.00
• Bought a smoke machine…..some wings for demonstrations.
• Patrick suggests sitting down and making a better budget other then the official budget so we can more closely track our expenses.

KIDS CLUB:

• Jan 21^st went well despite cleaning mishap.
• M.Angiulo cleaned the mess although scared Susan Brew.
• Hopefully won’t become an issue.
• Feb 18^th 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 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.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER

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

· Matt to arrange for gifts.

· Talking at PASM (5:00 – 8:00)

· Refreshments/wandering around from 5-6,talk from 6-7, questions 7:30, loiter till 8.

· Suggest finger foods.

· PASM will give us the room for free.

· Paleo might be the best talk

· Maybe a joint meeting with ASME

o Doug to get in touch with them….Matt to send Doug the flyer.

· Phoenix section is interested.

· AME flyers on campus

· Sara to contact kids club and educator associates.

E-Week Mall Outreach Thing:

· Feb. 18^th 10-3 at Foothills Mall

· We can have a booth if we’ll staff it.

· Doug requested materials for all ages from Lisa Bacon

· Balsa Gliders and flyers.

· Doug can man the booth from 10-?

· Craine take over until you get tired.

· 3 panel display Matt to get for Doug…arrange pick-up.

· MATT TO GET CONTACT INFORMATION TO DOUG & RSVP.

· Matt to get info on E-Week dinner.

WEBSITE:

• Frank talked to a student that runs websites who would be willing to set

us up with one…..8 bucks a month or 89 a year. It’d be hosted

somewhere in Phoenix. We’ll get our own domain name.

• Frank to ask on support….contract is upcoming.
• Site should be linked on national…..email that when finished.
• Matt has pictures from Kids Club

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)
• 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 contact them and invite them out to our event.
• 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

• Frank to tell about DL event.
• Found a couple remote buildings that could be used for camera testing.
• Continued Camera Tests.
• Presentation to a bunch of eighth graders.
• REMEMBER TO BRAG ABOUT THIS IN AWARD FORMS.

ACTION ITEMS:

• Matt needs to call Ed Palanek about gunnery range.
• Matt to ask specific questions regarding our specific events and our AIAA insurance coverage
• 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.