Our next meeting will be in March.

ATTENDEES:

Matt Angiulo, Doug May, David Haas, Juan Mena, Wesley Lin, James Rahn, Christina Haas,

KIDS CLUB:

• Amy Rice has the key to open the doors for February 24^th.
• - Matt to get the key back from Amy.
• February will be Physics fun. They’ll charge us a flat rate.
• Still nothing for March. William Bickle might do something an acoustic. There is also something on Garbage that may work out.
• April is Rockets with Steve Lubliner.

WEBSITE:

• Frank posted the newsletter.
• Matt to check with geocities to see if we can get the other page down.

TREASURER:

• Un deposited check from AIAA national (~$4000.00) Matt to see if Pat Craine has it.
• Checking account shows us currently at ~3000.00.
• Matt to pay bill for pencils and magnets ($48.68)
• We still need a treasurer (Matt to re-contact Nick Cicchini to see if he’s interested).

STUDENT DBF:

• Students called Desert Aircraft and they offered anything for purchase.
• Matt to try to find contact to see if they could get a sponsorship.
• Frank to ask Robert Wagner if the students could get a discounted motor & equipment.
• Student section gave a peer review a couple weeks ago.
• Competition is in Tucson.
• Students want to buy a new motor for testing and as a spare.
• They run about $300.00
• Students still need an RC pilot. They will be ready to fly by the end of February. Matt to ask people he knows.
• Students get money from AME and from the College of Engineering. Money from the college won’t be available until April which is too late to contribute to the competition. ~2K is expected from that source.
• They’re going to start building this weekend.
• They have 400 and are expecting an addition 200 but they require about ~$500.00 more.

AERIAL ROBOTICS:

• Frank got 5 students from ECE498A (senior capstone design course).
• Sponsors typically provide projects and financial backing for the students.
• Object of project is to provide the ground with data from airborne camera platform.
• This is a good way of recruiting students.
• The team needs about $2000K; $500 for travel for 1 or 2 students and $1500 for electronics.
• Some equipment has come from electric jet factory. Most of the funding is from Frank himself.
• Course runs for two semesters. Primary focus is to prepare competition at the end of July. Includes travel to Ft Benning,Georgia.

MEMBERSHIP REPORTS:

· Nothing new came up in the past set of reports.

· Doug sent an email to members who can upgrade to “senior member”

· Doug sent an email to members who can upgrade to “associate fellow”

· Matt to still talk to associate fellows.

- Need to go online and fill out a form and get recommendations from other associate fellows or higher.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER EVENT & E-Week:

Doug to get an AIAA table for 10. Section will cover costs. We need names. Gene and his wife can sit with us. We can invite the fellows and any of us of course.

- Larua McGill and Guest

- Matt & Maren Angiulo.

- Doug May & Wife

- Gene Austin & Wife

- John & Barbara Madden.

· We are set for Gene Austin Feb 22^nd at PASM. Start 5:00. Start talk 6:00.

· After we’ll invite Gene & his wife to dinner at Old Pueblo Grill. Matt to make reservations.

· Students will set up a display.

· I ordered a cheese tray and a vegitable tray.

· There will be a cash bar.

· Student section has posted flyers over AME and to the UofA. Email went out all the faculty.

· I sent out an email newsletter advertising.

· We should send out individual emails to the people who showed up last time at least….Matt to head this up.

· We need to get a firm list to Sherry. We also need to send Payment. Matt to send this out tomorrow.

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· Foothills mall went well. Didn’t seem to be as many as last time. Doug handed out a lot of pamphlets and planes and pencils. Doug thinks the pencils are really popular.

· We will get pictures from Daniel You.

· Hands on things are really popular. We don’t attract much attention without the hands on aspect.

· Doug was there from 9:30 until 2:00….Frank showed up to help out.

NEWSLETTER:

• Email newsletter went out on Feb 3^rd?
• We should get a new newsletter out by April.

BORDER SECURITY FORUM:

• Feb 20-22 for Ft. Huachuca. for Border Security.
• Kevin is going to be involved the whole time and will not make our events.
• Kevin gave us a flyer to distribute.
• Not clear if we have a roll in the goings on.

SOARING CLUB EVENT:

• Soaring club will do an event on for a group of 12 or more. They’d prefer a non club flying day (week day).
• Raytheon is a big target. We should send out an announcement ASAP.
• Matt to ask for RSVPs. Send out email this week.
• Matt got manual from Doug….Matt to make a flyer and send out by Friday.
• Doug’s neighbor wants to go.
• The rate will be $85 per person.
• Prof. Herman Fasel is a soaring club member and would be interested in helping us plan the event.
• Doug was thinking of April 27^th. (summer is better flying but is more turbulent.)
• Doug knows an ex U2 pilot who is a soaring club member who could prepare a talk at the same event.
• We can ask for support

Camping Trip:

• April 13^th looks like a dark weekend.
• Somewhere up Mount Lemon or Similar. (Matt to email names of locations).
• George is willing….he just wants someone to help shop.
• Include an announcement in the February email.

Art Contest:

• We’d like to sponsor an art/writing contest to send out to local kids. We could set up a cash prize and get a local astronaut or similar to judge. Sara to look into it.