Our next meeting will be

Wednesday July 16th

Las Margaritas on Wilmot at 6:30 PM

*Add Joe Peterson to email distribution. (Joseph_S_Peterson@raytheon.com)

*Add Kyle Andringa to email distribution. (Kyle_D_Andringa@raytheon.com)

*Add Anthony Boeckman to email distribution.

(Anthony_Boeckman@raytheon.com)

ATTENDEES:

Frank Manning, Brian Ewenson, Doug May, Matt Angiulo, Sara Falconer, Dustin Grissom, Kathy Grissom, Jeff Jepson, Anthony Boeckman, Laura Lund

End of the year reports are due

• Contribute by June 15^th so that Sara can proof before she leaves.

• They are absolutely due on the 30^th of this month.

TREASURER REPORT:

• We have $1200 in the account.

• Dustin has the budget set up for next year

• Sara suggest pad the travel budget since we overspent last year.

• We need a budget committee

• Dustin, Jeff, and Matt have been selected.

• Dustin will convene the budget committee meeting when the budget is

• ready.

MEMBERSHIP:

• We increased our numbers of senior membership due to Doug’s efforts.

• Doug may want to try associate fellow nominations this next year

• George Mulner is the new president of AIAA. Doug knows him.

RAC MEETING:

• Held May 31^st in LA

• Branding.

  • We need to update our logo. (Sara updated all the section logos as an example)

  • They recommend that we add the mission and the vision to our webpage.

• New awards and datamaker process is coming. It will be first described in the RLC.

• We need to communicate often and with purpose.

• We should purchase constant connect

  • portal to send out bulk emails. Phoenix has it.

  • Phoenix has it and has had good success with it

  • Bruce and Steve will be looking into it and seeing if we can get it at a discount from the Region.

  • Gives you a template to do a newsletter online.

• Right now it’d cost us at about $200.00

• No email should go out to the section unless two eyes have looked at it.

• $4000 of CAT III money left for this year. Region is looking for requests.

  • Things that will provide a benefit for the AIAA and/or would leave something behind.

  • Orange County did a speed dating for young professionals.

  • no actual dating was involved. It was career related.

  • Phoenix will get a van and come down and do something with us.

  • We could rent some fancy teacher from Seattle.

  • We could send a teacher to an education event.

• Board development and council – get people involved

• 14 from our Region went to CVD.

• 200 fellow nominations

• Special Service citations

• Insurance form is due August 1. (Jeff get form from Steve Brock)

• Highest age range of volunteers is 35-49

• AIAA leadership manual has a description of responsibilities of officers.

• $200 was given to student sections submitting end of the year reports and few people did.

• High schoolers should get involved with the student section.

• Next Rac meeting is Sept 20^th in Seattle or Sept 13^th in L.A.

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS:

• We need a Y.P. chair – Kyle Andringa is interested!

• Fermented Fluid Dynamics and something like that.

• We need pics for soaring event.

• Jeff wants to target Raytheon new hires.

KIDS CLUB:

• Kids club was the most successful in terms of number of kids participating and diversity of the kids.

• We used 3 of the 8 classes were taught by lunar lab fellows

• We don’t know if we can get the room for next year. Sara doesn’t anticipate any trouble.

• Challenger learning center is closing. This is going to hurt kids club and the community.

• Sara is looking for teachers and classes.

• Maybe we can work on robotics problem – Matt has some robotics contacts thru lady at Raytheon that works near him.

• Brian going to Embry Riddle for the Great American Aero Derby. We should get involved

• Did anyone get any pictures of kids club in January or Febrary.

• - Laura will check for us.

STUDENT SECTION NEWS:

• Seniors got Best Aerospace Design Award.

• 3 people are excited about DBF.

• Made $300 at Spring Fling.

AERIAL ROBOTICS:

• Competition about a month away

• 4 people are signed up – Frank doubts all of them will show up to go.

• ECE is working on small hovering vehicle autopilot as senior project.

WEBSITE:

• Nothing new.

• Need to update logo

• Need to update communication section of Annual report.

EDUCATION:

• -school is out

• -summer camp is canceled.

PUBLIC POLICY:

• August is for Aerospace

• Brain knows Congresswoman Giffords personally

• Matt trying to team up with Phoenix – There has been no response so far.

NEWSLETTER:

• We need newsletter more often.

• We can focus on electronic copies.

• Everyone can thinking of something to put in there between now and the next meeting.

• If we send one out every other month that’d be great.

Joint Events with Phoenix:

• We need to arrange one

• Carla Bitter over at Phoenix Lander

• Mirror lab

Homeland Security Conference:

• August 25^th-29

• Homeland security systems in action; air space maritime”

• In Monterey California

• Sara has keynote speakers

• Special briefing by federal official on disaster relief

• Going out in a letter to all section chairs.

• We need to get the word out to membership.

• Sara passed around a brochure

MISC:

• Sara wrote an essay for motivation on Type 1 diabetes and Sara won 2^nd in the nation.