Our next meeting will be

Wednesday Nov, 7th.

We will meet at the Old Pueblo Grill at 6:00 PM

ATTENDEES:

Dustin Grissom, Kathy Grissom, Frank Manning, Doug May, Sara Falconer, John Madden, Brian Ewinson, Matthew Angiulo, Maren McRae, David Hahs, Amy Rice.

TREASURER Report:

• Dustin Grissom to take over at Treasurer
• Matt to officially add Dustin to the roster as soon as his AIAA contact info is updated!
• We have just over $1180.35 in checking account as of 8-31-07.
• Matt wrote a check to Sara for $360 that covers most of her expenses. I’ll send her another check for the difference.
• Matt to receive a check from the AIAA for $3685.3.
• Cat I rebate = $2110.30
• Cat II Award = $1900.00
• Section Insurance = -$325.00
• Matt reimbursed Amy $20.00 for DBF Snacks.
• Matt will write a check for Softball game expenses.
• Field & ramada rental ~$42 + ~$14
• Shirts = ~40shirts * $12/per shirt (+ tax)
• Food & Beverage = ~$200 bucks (I guess)
• Quality Reusable Canopy ~$150.

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. Week before labor day.

KIDS CLUB:

• No one asked for a scholarship. We’re not reaching out to our targets. A third are repeats or siblings. We have a waiting list of about 5 kids.
• $40 for seven sessions. Sara has $1145.00 in checks from Kids Club enrollment fees. Matt will deposit into the account ASAP.
• October is Space by Brian Ewenson at PASM.
• Luna Fa to do DNA in November.
• December is open.
• January is Serina with “Math Magic”.
• Don McCarthy in Feb with “Astronomy”
• Don Lacy to do delta darts in March. – Brian has agreed to let us use the Museum
• April is Steve Lubliner (hopefully). We have no confirmation.
• Two HS students have agreed to help out as volunteers. We still need a couple Adults to volunteer for each session.

ARIZONA SCIENCE TEACHER ASSOCIATION MEETING:

• 18^th and 19^th of October.
• Brian suggested we may be able to team up with PASM and split costs. Marc from the Phoenix section will also be involved.
• Doug has requested Membership stuff
• Sara has requested educator membership stuff
• Sara has requested several AIAA items as giveaways. Marc from Phoenix will split costs for give-aways.

RAC Meeting:

• We need to be more formal with the minutes. They need to be approved and distributed since we’re a non-profit. We need to ask for edits and changes. Ask if we need to see if send it to the region IV directors.
• Webpage needs to be kept up to date. Updated officers and put AIAA mission on there.
• Retaining membership was the focus of the meeting. Get members on committees to get them involved. Find things for them to do.
• Communicate often and with a purpose.
• Student Paper conference April in 2008 at Arizona State University.
• $8000 of Cat III money available.
• AIAA is under spent on speaker reimbursement
• Sara met a guy in Phoenix who might make a good speaker.
• We need to contact members who are expired.
• Matt to talk to John Rose about a fellowship internship in Washington.
• CVD is April 15^th and 16^th. 500 available.
• Region VI is Colloquium Feb 16^th. Matt should go.
• Public Policy workshop at the Reno Conference.
• More nominations for associate fellows. We need more people to get their senior member upgrades.
• Next RAC meeting should be sometime in January.

ENGINEERS WEEK:

• Doug will try to attend a meeting.

PASM MUSEUM NEWS:

• October 4^th is the 50^th anniversary of the space age. 6 speakers lined up. We may be able to get them to do Lecture events in the future. 9 Different Organizations participating. Hands on rotational stations. Mini missions in the challenger session. TAAA will be doing astronomical viewings. There will be food. Expecting 200 – 250.
• Dec 2^nd Santa Claus will land at the Museum.
• 1500 high school kids coming out for Metro. Education commission 21^st century key to learning. March 6^th.
• Space Shuttle crew will be out in March.
• A week after ASTA, Brian will be representing the Museum at the Xprize lunar lander challenge flyoff in Alamagordo. He is also going to be representing us while we’re there and will give out any info we provide him with.
• Oh the 20^th of October the museum will have exhibits of the University bookstore. Brian to do the space talk twice. It’ll be a good opportunity to highlight AIAA to UofA students.
• SARSEF March 12^th – 14^th at the TCC.
• Huge event around May 17^th with Frank Borman.
• Jim McDivitt and Dave Scott are now on the Museum Board.
• Supporting the landing of the Mars Lander in May. At 5 in the evening.
• Matt provided Brian with the tabletop display.
• SR71 conference will likely happen in May.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE EVENT:

• We should try something the last week of November or the first two in December.
• Matt to get the Manual.
• Email me back ASAP to choose dates.

SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT:

• On the October 13^th. Team of professionals ready to go.
• Santa Cruz River Park from 10 am to 5pm.
• Map to field
• Field and Ramada reserved.
• I’m get the normal assortment of BBQ food & etc.
• Canopy will be purchased.
• Ordered Shirts. Should be great fun.

STUDENT SECTION NEWS:

• Working on Recruitment. Talking to Junior and Senior classes.
• 6 seniors doing DBF. 5 other members.
• Materials to graduating seniors. Student member applications.
• Matt to find out who the students need to contact for the “kit”.
• DBF is progressing. Senior design class just got their projects. Finish the design by the end of the semester.
• Section to send something to DA so they can do prop testing.
• $500 from LM for putting up flyers in the AME building.
• Dom and Nick have the connection for the RMS money. Matt to find his old contact.

WEBSITE:

• Added the notice about the annual awards.
• We need to make the Tucson logo is the same size at the AIAA logo….at least not overpowering the AIAA logo.

AERIAL ROBOTICS:

• Going to send an award to Army Institute of Tech in India for help during the competition.
• ECE students are working on getting telemetry from the UAV. Working on pressure sensing data to be more accurate the GPS.

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.
• - Email the Raytheon calendar for next year.
• Distinguished Lecturer at Museum.
• Perhaps another tour from the Museum (AMARC, A-10s, PINAL).
• - Pick date and time and let Brian know.
• Gunnery Range trip – Matt to ask Ed Palanek. Brian may be able to help us.
• Tour of Optics Lab at UofA. – CLOSED.

Tucson Section Demographics as of Sept 13, 2007

~87% of the 350 members plotted.

Zip codes with 5 or fewer members ignored.