Tucson Section Officer Board

Meeting Minutes for March 2006

Next meeting is Tuesday, May 2^nd.

El Parador at 6:00 PM

ATTENDEES:

Matt Angiulo, Sara Falconer, Frank Manning, Maren McRae

TREASURER:

• Account Balance ~$2375.37 minus bank fees
• Sara has $35 to deposit from new Kids Club members.
• Sara also has receipts for $19.98 and $6.00 that need to be reimbursed.
• John Keller will submit a request for funds for his ice and his dirt.
• Matt has a receipt for $111.20 for newsletter stamps.
• Steve Lubliner received a check for ($6/kid) $200 for Oct Rocket Session.

KIDS CLUB:

• March 25^th was Mars - John Keller is teaching
• Greatest Kids Club ever
• Lots of hands on things
• Played a game
• Leaving for Cal State (which is sad)
• Went to lunar lab and watched the first images come in from the Mars Orbiter!
• Steve Ratts was the only helper that showed up.
• April 22^nd is Rockets (with eggs).
• Maren can help out.
• It’ll cost about $200.00 total.
• No word from SMART.
• Gentleman from solar astronomy has pictures and wants to be added to our mailing list.
• Ken Rightler will be as PASM April 12^th.

STUDENT SECTION:

• Meeting on Monday to show off the plane.
• Asked for money.

WEBSITE:

• Webpage setup (www.aiaatucson.com)
• Still waiting on contract.
• We’ll pay for the full year.
• We have a contract with
• 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.

NEWSLETTER:

• Real newsletter articles need to be finished by the 12^thof May
• John needs to be done by the 19^th
• Raytheon needs to be done by the 22^nd
• Newsletter will be out by the 30th
• In the meantime there’ll be an email newsletter that’ll go out on the 15th of April
• Articles in by the 10^th
• Ask about updated mailing addresses if haven’t received email
• Ask members to forward to their colleagues who might not be receiving our correspondence

TUCSON SOARING CLUB EVENT:

• No progress on the event. Doug to pursue
• 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)

OTHER SPEAKER OR EVENT:

• Teacher said that they’re too busy to organize something this time of year.
• Because of AIMS and the end of the year
• An event would still be good.
• We can do an event up on Mt Lemon….maybe stargazing for families.
• Sara has a sleeping bag but no tent.
• We can get TAAA to turn out. RTeam Astronomy club be interested too.
• A lot of members want to do something with their kids.
• Terry White may be willing to give some talk on Aerodynamics

AERIAL ROBOTICS

• Frank asked Globe highschool if they’d like to get involved
• Bad time of year to start
• One teacher will post a flyer…..Maybe Frank could fly a plane during an assembly.
• Flight testing/ fly a camera and send data. Test prop vehicle.
• Teachers can get a 200 classroom grant for supplies.
• They become educator associates free!
• We still have airplanes and supplies from the centennial of flight. We can send some of that stuff to Globe.
• Globe is in the Phoenix area so maybe we can coordinate with them.
• More camera tests and a redesign of the powerplant

SECTION AWARDS MEETING:

• We should have one.
• We don’t know who funds it.
• I’ll find out how that works.
• Assuming we fund it.
• We could take members out to dinner.
• Or we can have certificates made.

ACTION ITEMS:

• Matt to email out Student Section meeting request.
• Matt to email officers a reminder about the email newsletter
• Matt needs to call Ed Palanek about gunnery range.