Our
next meeting will be
Tuesday
April 22nd.
Location
TBA at 6:00 PM
ATTENDEES:
Frank Manning, Maren McRae,
Doug May, Jeff Jepson, Matthew Angiulo, David Hahs, Dustin Grissom, Kathy
Grissom, Amy Rice.
TREASURER REPORT:
$45 to Amy for Kids Club
snacks
5K in bank 2K owed
Waiting on bill from last
lecture
--PAS charge for food
at last lecture seems high, investigation is in progress; possible cost split
with Brian; possible mistake in billing
KIDS CLUB:
This Saturday, 3-15-08, Delta Darts with Don Lacey at PAS
Idea: Lego Engineering—mechanical things built out
of Legos by students;
program out of Tufts
U by Dr. Chris Rogers. Cat3 funds likely
available for this. Probable UA AME
contacts. Incorporate into Kids Club
next year, possibly half hour per session.
See what Sara thinks. Cost is
about $2K.
SPEAKER EVENTS:
L Scott Miller- at PASM in
front of SR71, Thursday Feb 21
100-150 people. Went well.
Promo material was out and visible.
John Pervis- at UA, March
6
About 60 people, went
well, whole thing under $200 including food, several perspective new student
section members. Students section gave
speaker a nice UA pen set, showed him labs and wind tunnel.
Interaction with Phoenix
Matt received an
email from Mark from the Phx section about dinner meeting later in March. Will forward incase of interest.
(… interval while
Matt and David talk on the phone to Sara about Kids’ Club…)
SOARING EVENT
20 is max people
subsidies for students and
officers might not be doable after PAS bill
April 25 is tentative
date—it’s a Raytheon off Friday. Fridays
are club flying days, but this may not be a problem.
Want 2 hour block, 3-5p.m.
seems best for club and thermals
Are Saturdays
possible? Doug will inquire.
**ACTION ITEM DOUG:
Inquire about Saturdays for Soaring
POSSIBLE OTHER EVENTS:
Behind the scenes tour of
Pima/DM – no progress, Jeff will contact Brian
**ACTION ITEM JEFF: Contact Brian**
**ACTION ITEM MATT: Give email list to Jeff**
Brian and gunnery range
event? Is it possible to go with a
pre-existing group?
ENGINEERS WEEK:
Went well
Students showed and
took over for the last few hours
STUDENT SECTION NEWS:
·
DBF report in
Got confirmation on
report, no page length issues
Building custom box
for transport in David’s truck
Battery packs being
shipped- weight determines score, weight down by almost half.
Raytheon money in, thank
you to go Brian Perry
**ACTION ITEM MATT- email Brian Perry, ask for his wish
list for a gift**
AERIAL ROBOTICS:
Flew blimp at Physics
Phun Nite; great exercise for the competition
Went to rehearsal the
day before Physics Phun Nite; let kids fly the blimp and
they loved it, and it’s easy!
(Brought cool video)
Working on another
hovering video
Trying to come up
with configuration from present to hovering improvement. Present configuration involves two propellers
on pods, worrying about breaking propellers in competition—thinking about using
single blades, other options
(… interval with Mariachi music…)
WEBSITE:
No update
YOUNG
PROFESSIONALS:
Jeff will send out
happy hour after Matt sends email list
Excitement over Pima
Tour
NEWSLETTER:
Went out
Matt has Amy’s
Available on-line
Suggestion to
snail-mail only one per year, and put others on the webpage
Better coverage,
cheaper, faster
Do another soon,
prior to Soaring Even
OTHER:
Gotta love that
Mariachi music.
ACTION ITEM
EVERYONE: Please email Amy ideas for (quiet) restaurant
locations.