Our next meeting will be Tuesday,

ATTENDEES:

Matt Angiulo, Brian Ewenson, Frank Manning, John Madden, Doug May, Sara Falconer, David Haas, Amy Rice,

KIDS CLUB:

• Rockets was last Saturday.
• There were 16 kids.
• David Haas helped out.
• Only two rockets were lost.
• Steve Lubliner will send us an invoice Probably about (5 to 6 bucks a kid).
• This Saturday (May 5^th) Vuna Fa will be doing a session about DNA.
• We’ll do the DBF follow up much later in the Summer.

KIDS CLUB @ STUDENT DBF:

• We need to get a list of contact info for the teams.
• Raytheon supplied toys were a big hit.
• The AIAA gliders were a lot of fun.
• It was an amazing success. Everyone had a great time.
• We sent out 4 vanloads of kids. And everyone had a great time.
• UofA, Raytheon, PASM, and AIAA contributed to the goodie bags.
• Brian made contact with the Kansas Cosmosphere and they’re interested in doing the same program next year in Wichita.

WEBSITE:

• Frank adding the soaring flyer.

TREASURER:

• Mary Ellen sent a new check for 4K and I deposited it.
• We got about 750 from the E week banquet
• I reimbursed Gene Austin for about 650.
• We need to touch base with Ola since we think the DLP agreed to pay for Gene’s extra expenses.
• We still need a treasurer (Matt to re-contact Nick Cicchini to see if he’s interested – maybe Anthony Boekman).

STUDENT DBF:

• 50 teams submitted reports and 36 teams showed up.
• Field was great
• Teams enjoyed themselves.

AERIAL ROBOTICS:

• ECE students completed their conceptual design and it was well received.
• Students will be back next semester to build some hardware: Steerable antenna.
• Some will continue work over the summer.

MEMBERSHIP REPORTS:

NEWSLETTER:

• Doug submitted an article.
• Students submitted an article.
• Sara to send something in.
• Matt to write chairs corner and Gene Austin.
• Sara and Doug will write a soaring thing.
• If Brian and Frank have anything just send it in.

SOARING CLUB EVENT:

• Event went well. We got 15 out of the 23 RSVPs.
• Chuck Pinney and Jack Stebe gave good talks.
• Students all had a great time.
• We paid about $1700. We collected about 500.
• Sara learned not to eat pickles before flight.
• Schedule yourself last and you can fly for twice as long.
• Kate Porter suggested we could do something with middle school kids in the future.
• We should try this again in the future.

PASM Joe Engle Talk:

• Event went okay. Just short of 90 or 95.
• Sunday April 29^th at 11am
• There’ll be an evening speaker program.

Camping Trip:

• Pushing back camping trip until the end of the summer.
• George Barber says he’d help us out then.
• More information to come.