OC_AIAA
Meeting Minutes
June 5, 2010
Venue: Building 28 Presentation Room, Boeing Campus, Huntington Beach, CA
Attendees:
Jeff Norton
Philip Ridout
Jann Koepke
Bob Koepke
Jody Hart
Dino Roman
Jim Martin
Gene Justin
Kamal Shweyk
Nino Polizzi
The meeting was called to order at about 6:15 P.M. by Jeff Norton.
Presentation : Nino Polizzi (Rocket Science Tutors). Nino reviewed the program. He noted the
4 schools that they are working with in Santa Ana and mentioned a new school in the Northrop
Grumman backyard. FYI: He noted that to start a program at a new school costs about $6000.
Presentation : DBF Team (John Chen. UC Irvine). Review of last year’s program and spending.
It was a successful year - they won 2nd place. They made many capital and material purchases
which drove their costs north of $12K. However, they did state that they thought that they would
be back in the $8 to $9K expenditure level this coming year.
COUNCIL BUSINESS
Chair (Jeff)
Mindjogger Items
Regarding Section Annual Report. Kimberly Castro is working on this. Jeff to check on the
status.
Regarding Section Awards. Kimberly is working on this also. Jeff to check on the status. We
need to go after the education award.
Regarding CAT 1 money - Where is it? Jeff will try to check on that at the RAC (if I get a
chance).
We are not sending an officer to the Regional Leadership Conference.
Confirmed Council meetings except for May. Doublechecking September's meeting schedule.
Finalized the Roster:
Chair - Jeff Norton
Chair Elect - Scott Roland
Treasurer - Phil Ridout
Career & Workforce Development - Jerry Huang
Education - Jan Koepke
Honors & Awards - Gene Justin
Membership - Bob Welge
Programs - Jim Martin
Public Policy - Kamal Shweyk
Young Professionals - OPEN
Technical - Dino Roman
Communications - Jody Hart
Directors at large - John Rose, Toby Holtz
Treasurer (Phil)
We passed the April and May budgets by unanimous vote.
SECRETARY - Ron - We need past reports for approval. Please provide those to this group or
to me for distribution so we can approve those next month.
Education (Jan)
The Koepkes are reaching out to Quest Therapeutic for a summer camp for a rocket launch.
Nice reach out to children in need!
They have a goal to lauch 5 TARC teams.
Note that there is no SLI effort this year as they did not quality.
Also, Jan mentioned that they are working with a group called FAR (Rick Mascek (spelling?)).
FAR is sponsoring a contest to build and launch a rocket to 50,000 feet. Dino felt that this would
be a great section goal.
At that point, I suggested that we seriously consider and asked the council to consider what our
mission as a Section should be. I think we need a clear mission statement and have asked the
Council to consider it. I am going to try to talk to our regional leadership about this as well.
What we have been trying is not working at generating sufficient interest to grow membership.
We need to get people excited about AIAA.
Programs (Jim)
Jim asked for additional money for programs. I asked Jim to consider a kickoff meeting for the
50K rocket as a possibility. Jan later added that perhaps we can have Mr. Mascek as a speaker
(that was after the meeting, Jim). Jim is trying to target membership, perhaps on a more
technical level, to generate more interest. He plans on working with Jerry on this.
We also reviewed having a Kite Fly this summer. Bob Welge has provided a contact at Jim's
request so he can follow up.
Jim - I mentioned SpaceX to you. I think Scott helped set this up earlier this year. It would be a
great tour. By the way, if you are interested (would be a good program), here is the contact
information for Roger Gilbertson who works in Marketing & Communcations Roger.Gilbertson@spacex.com.
Public Policy (Kamal). Kamal has been contacted by Dr. Andrew Benjamin from Congressman
Rohrbacher's office regarding what public policy should be. Kamal provided (via AIAA
National) a statement of the AIAA's position. (Kamal - can you provide that to me - I'd like to
post it on the website). We also touched on August is for Aerospace.
Technical (Roman). A brief discussion of the date for next year's ASAT. We could not
determine a date for the ASAT. Trying to avoid days around 5/16 (and need to watch out for
Memorial Day and Mother's Day).
Communications (Hart): Jeff to provide Enrique's contact information so that Jody can be
brought up to speed.
By the way - I (Jeff) will add the Council meetings to the calendar.
Bob - do you still have the spreadsheet of contacts from last year? Can we circulate that again?
BUDGET DISCUSSION - Budget approved.
The budget discussion was lead by Phil. A proposed budget was provided in the afternoon.
Action Taken: Reintroduced CVD funding back into the budget. Motion passed - 6 for, 2
against.
STEM funding was maintained and in some cases increased.
We also increased funding for programs.
Motion to accept the budget with discussed changes passed unanimously.
Phil, please distribute the new budget when you have finished it - Thanks for your efforts on this!
LAST WORD
Please consider what our mission is. Once we have a clear objective, then we can be more
effective in providing our members the opportunities that AIAA should be providing.