Our next meeting will be

Tuesday October, 2^nd.

*** There will be a location change ***

ATTENDEES:

Matt Angiulo, Brian Ewenson, Frank Manning, David Haas, Doug May, Sara Falconer

TREASURER:

• We have just over $1180.35 in checking account as of 8-31-07.
• Hopefully we’ll get our reward money in October. I’m hoping for ~2K.
• Matt to reimburse Amy about $20.00.
• Hopefully Amy will be willing to take over Treasurer Responsibilities.

HOMELAND SECURITY:

· Conference in Monterey was a success. AIAA co-sponsored event.

· It was at the Navy Post Graduate School.

· It’ll happen again in Monterey next year.

· Sara saw some gorgeous blond guy with Italian shoes, so she’ll go again.

KIDS CLUB:

• 1^st Saturday’s of each month are confirmed. Sara to send dates.
• Janurary Session: Serina will teach math magic
• February Session: Don McCarthy.
• October Session (6^th): Brian Ewenson
• Sara will contact more people,
• LPL Phoenix Mars program may be a good option.

ARIZONA SCIENCE TEACHER ASSOCIATION MEETING:

• Meeting will be in Phoenix and it’ll cost the section about $300 to get involved (enrollment, booth, etc.)
• Brian suggested we may be able to team up with PASM and split costs. Let’s make that happen.
• Sara will go. – thanks Sara.

ENGINEERS WEEK:

• Meetings are starting up again.
• Doug May will keep in contact (although may not be able to attend meetings).
• Let’s continue to be involved but not too involved. I think we were taken advantage of last year.

PASM MUSEUM NEWS:

• The entire crew of Endeavor will be at the Museum in this March for a big event.
• SARSEF is scheduled for March 12-14.
• “Shadow of the Moon” movie will be at ELCON on Friday Sept. 28^th.
• October 4^th 6-9pm Mars meeting. TAAA & other groups involved.
• October 25^th-29^th Brian will be out at the X-prize with a booth. We may be able to get him some AIAA literature and promotional “stuff” to give out.
• Brian is doing several events for the museum and he’s always willing to give out AIAA materials.
• Matt to get Brian the old panels from our table top display to set up in the museum. Section can provide whatever will be necessary. – thanks Brian.

STUDENT SECTION NEWS:

• Starting up with DBF. Rules came out two weeks ago.
• New missions for the new plane. Team has to carry up to 14 half liter water bottles or 0.5 pound bricks. Teams have to fly any combination of bottles and bricks.
• Score is divided by battery weight so that will be an optimization point.
• We should see if we can get Desert Aircraft involved. Matt to contact.
• Brian has found some interest at the Kansas Cosmosphere.
• Matt will be there to help out if needed.

WEBSITE:

• Frank updated the main page with new photos from kids club & aerial robotics competition.
• We should probably receive a bill for web hosting soon. No word yet.

AERIAL ROBOTICS:

• Pima made it to the competition. Flew autonomously. Attempted level 1. Almost completed it. Placed 5^th out of the 15 teams that showed up. UofA came in 6^th place.
• Georgia Tech is in the lead. They did level 3. A few teams accomplished level 2.
• Next year will be the last year for the current set of rules. Regardless if anyone wins they’re going to hand out the prize money.
• ECE students are still quite a bit involved. They built a steerable antenna.

ASTRONOMY CAMPING TRIP:

• On hold until late a weekend in May. Location is still to be determined.
• George suggested going down to Kitt Peak.

TENTATIVE CALENDAR:

• Glider event in April.
• Doug has a contact at LPL with regard to the Phoenix program. They are willing to do tours (control room & briefing). Perhaps afterwards we can go do a dinner or happy hour or something.
• Push to do astronomy camp-out in May over a Raytheon 3 day weekend.
• Distinguished Lecturer at Museum.
• Perhaps another tour from the Museum (AMARC, A-10s, PINAL).
• Gunnery Range trip – Matt to ask Ed Palanek. Brian may be able to help us.
• Tour of Optics Lab at UofA. – let’s look for contact.
• Professional vs. Softball Tournament & BBQ. David to ask the students when and then Matt will set up the rest. Avoid last Saturday in October.

OFFICER TRAVEL PLANS:

• Sara will go to represent Tucson at the RAC IV meeting this Saturday. Expected cost will be approximately ($260).
• Matt would like to participate at Congressional Visits Day (CVD) This April. Matt will investigate ways to get reimbursement of funding support from AIAA. Perhaps we can ask for CAT III funds. This will likely be an expensive trip so we’ll wait to see how much we get in for CAT I and II before we plan.
• At least one person should represent the section at the annual AIAA meeting in Reno, Aerospace sciences meeting.

Matt’s Misc. Action Items:

• Bug Marcus about AIAA video.
• Get out old display planels to give to Brian to setup at the PASM as a perminant display.
• Expect to get a newsletter out two weeks after next meeting.

Tucson Section Demographics as of Sept 13, 2007

~87% of the 350 members plotted.

Zip codes with 5 or fewer members ignored.