Hawaii Section July Newsletter

Aloha! We have lots to share in this July 2012 issue!

Summary:

1. A New Membership Development Chair for Maui
2. Upcoming Elections for Computer Society.
3. A New website for Hawaii Section: www.ieee-hawaii.org.
4. Nominations due July 31st for the IEEE-USA STEM Award.
5. K-12 education update: Will waiver help STEM?
6. CyberPatriot needs you! Your High School could win!
7. Events:

• Thursday August 2nd is "SQLSaturday" at Honolulu Community College.
• Aug. 6th ExCom meeting - all are welcome, plan the future!
• Aug. 14th Computer Society Tech Talk at The Box Jelly with HiCapacity.org!

* additional updates on John's blog: http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com

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1. A New Membership Development Chair for Maui:

Thank you to Adrian Cogan who recently moved to Maui and has volunteered

to be our newest Membership Development Chair. Please make him welcome!

His email address is a.cogan@ieee.org.

We were informed that we can have a Membership Development Chair for each

island. Please contact John Camery if you or someone you know would like

to serve as a Membership Development Chair on one of the other islands.

John's email is john.camery@ieee.org.

2. Upcoming Elections for the Computer Society:

Our Computer Society Chapter is putting out a call for nominations, so we

can elect new chapter officers by the end of the year. John Camery is

serving as chapter chair and David Morse is serving as vice chair for the

chapter until the elections. If anyone can help out by serving as an

officer, please let us know. And join us Aug. 14th at the Box Jelly!

3. A New Website for the Hawaii Section: www.ieee-hawaii.org:

We announced our website development contest which is open to all our

student members. The aim is to develop a better web presence for our

Hawaii Section and chapters. David Morse is organizing the contest.

Contact him for details at David.Morse@ieee.org, or visit our interim

homepage at www.ieee-hawaii.org for more information. Comments welcome!

4. Nominations due July 31st for the IEEE-USA STEM Award:

If any of our Hawaii Section members are working with an educator on a

STEM Outreach project, please let us know so we can consider nominating

them for the IEEE-USA Precollege Educator-Engineer Partnership 2013

Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize collaborative activities

between K-12 educators and technical professionals who are IEEE members.

5. K-12 education update: Will waiver help STEM?

The Hawaii DOE is in the process of drafting an ESEA waiver application.

Using the "Hawaii Growth Model" and applying a new accountability system,

the hope is "better support of schools, teachers, and students in

achieving success..." This is a short-fuse activity, with aprox. two

weeks for public input (early August). IEEE members concerned about the

future of science, technology, engineering and math should contact

Stephanie Shipton at Hawaii State DOE and submit your recommendations for

improved school accountability, community involvement, and technical

education.

(link to presentation agenda at He'e: http://www.heecoalition.org/1034)

CyberPatriot needs you! Your High School could win!

Like computers? Want to help kids? Well how about guiding them in the

basics of setting up and securing a server? It's easy! The folks at

uscyberpatriot.org have pre-packaged the entire competition with

tutorials and a virtual server image for kids to launch and configure.

Your job? Just be a helping hand - most of the teams (high schools and

JROTCs) have teachers for coaches. But often, the teacher doesn't know

the first thing about technology. That's where you come in as a Mentor!

Visit the site: http://www.uscyberpatriot.org/HowYouFit/mentors.aspx

7. Events:

- Thursday August 2nd is "SQLSaturday" at the Honolulu Community College. SQLSaturday is a free

training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn

about SQL Server. http://www.sqlsaturday.com/143/eventhome.aspx

- Aug. 6th ExCom meeting - all are welcome, plan the future! The first

Monday of the month as usual, at 5:30PM, at Zippy's on Vineyard. The

Executive Committee meets to discuss Hawaii Section business, plan

activities, and define the organization's positions on issues. Map

- Aug. 14th Computer Society Tech Talk at The Box Jelly with HiCapacity.org.

We are joining forces with HiCapacity to do some hands-on hacking. We'll

gather at 6pm Tuesday and all IEEE members are welcome. Come check out

the cool new Box Jelly and the HiCapacity maker-space!

Address: 307 Kamani Street Honolulu, HI 96813.  Map 

Here's how Matthew of HiCapacity describes it:

"HI Capacity will be going over using an Arduino with a digitally addressable RGB LED strip. The Arduino IDE runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

We will begin with a short Arduino discovery session before we move on to

the LED strip. Each strip is 1m long and has 32 LEDs that can display up

to 2 million colors per LED. We will be going over how to connect an

Arduino to the strip in 1m and 5m lengths. We'll have all the necessary

materials and equipment on hand, but everyone is welcome to bring a

laptop. Using the strip will require a bit of math but we'll simplify it

so that you can get it up and running quickly."

Contact Dave Morse for more info: david.morse@ieee.org

Honoring Our Members

     The IEEE was formed on 1 January 1963 through the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE)*.  So, 2012 is our 50th year, and the Hawaii Section of the IEEE would like to recognize all those who have been loyal members since the beginning.  Here is the of our distinguished members who have been with IEEE since the beginning:

Bakken, E
Balderston, Michael
Bennett, Forrest
Chong, Albert
Chun, Charles
Engelbardt, R
Fleming, K
Gens, R
Gilroy, Robert
Hirakami, Michael
Iwai, George
Kato, Robert
Kitamura, Harris
Koide, George
Krieg, K
Kubo, Mavis
Moore, Thomas
Nakamura, M
Nakamura, Otis
Okamura, S
Paik, Norman
Tanaka, Allen
Verma, Yash
Weiss, E
Zinn, Earle

                            Help Create a First Hand History

     The IEEE History Center would also like to recognize all those who have been loyal members since the beginning.  It is creating a special collection of First Hand Histories submitted by these members.  If you are a 50 year member and would like to contribute a First Hand History, please see the First Hand History creation instructions.  Once your First Hand History is completed, we will mark your contribution with a graphic replica of the First 50 Year Member pin shown above.

*As a footnote I should add that the that the Hawaii Section predates the merger into the IEEE by many years as it was formed in 1950.

Announcements and the July EXCON Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

John Camery, presiding
David Morse, PACE Chair
Danny Terlip, Select Engineering Services
Jong  K. Choi, Asst. Dean, UH-Manoa
Jason Axelson
Matthew Badeau
Al Toda

Nominations are due by the end of the month for the IEEE-USA STEM Award.  See the previous post on this topic in the blog.

Adrian Cogan who recently moved to Maui is our newest Membership Development Chair.  His email address is a.cogan@ieee.org.  We were informed that we can have a Membership Development Chair for each island.  So, let me know if you or someone you know would like to serve as a Membership Development Chair on one of the other islands.

Danny Terlip also recently moved here on Oahu.  So, we want to extend a hearty welcome to him from our Hawaii Section of the IEEE.

Our Computer Society Chapter is putting out a call for nominations, so we can elect new chapter officers by the end of the year.   John Camery is serving as chapter chair and David Morse is serving as vice chair for the chapter until the elections.  If anyone can help out by serving as an officer, please let us know. 

One can join the computer society (www.computer.org) without joining the IEEE (www.ieee.org), but you must join the IEEE to serve as an officer.  Join up and make a difference.   This month new members can try out membership by signing up for the second half of the year.  Our Computer Society Chapter is planning a technical meeting for August.  So, stay tuned for details.  We need two meetings to meet the minimum requirement per year for a chapter and six to get the bonus funding. We need nominees for chair, vice chair, secretary and treasurer for our chapter election. Now is the time to get involved if you want to make a difference. 

We announced our website development contest which is open to all our student members on Oahu and Maui.  The aim is to develop a better web presence for our Hawaii Section and chapters.  David Morse is organizing the contest.  Contact him for details at David.Morse@ieee.org.

We discussed the need to form a team in order to be in a position to put in a bid to host a conference in Hawaii.  Sept. 1, 2012 is the deadline for submitting a bid for hosting IEEE-USA 2015.  May 1, 2013 is the deadline for submitting a bid to IEEE GHTC 2014.  Once again, if anyone can help out let us know.

Various ideas were presented for technical meetings to satisfy our yearly requirements.  In particular, involvement with Makerspace groups like HI Capacity (http://hicapacity.org/) was discussed as being very mutually beneficial.  Two members of HI Capacity, Jason Axelson and Matthew Badeau, were in attendance.  We hope to sponsor joint meetings with them.  Also, ideas were presented by Song Choi to increase the involvement of student members in section and chapter meetings.   If anyone not in attendance has suggestions, please feel free to comment. Thanks.

Our next EXCOM meeting will be the first Monday of the month as usual.  That is 5:30PM on August 6, 2012 at Zippy's on Vineyard. Map.

The STEM Award deadline is this Month

IEEE-USA Precollege
Educator-Engineer Partnership Award

Nominations due to IEEE-USA by July 31, 2012

If any of our Hawaii Section members are working with an educator on a STEM Outreach project, please let us know so we can consider nominating them for the

IEEE-USA Precollege Educator-Engineer Partnership 2013 Award

The 2012 award was won by a Mani Moro, a member of the Oregon section, and Ryan Harvey, a science teacher at Cascade Heights Public Charter School, for a STEM Outreach program that they have developed.

The purpose of the award is to recognize collaborative activities between K-12 educators and technical professionals who are IEEE members.

The award winner(s) will receive a plaque providing the citation for the award. IEEE-USA will recognize the award winners during an award ceremony at a time and venue mutually agreed by the IEEE-USA and the recipients.  (Usually this is the IEEE-USA meeting which will be held in Portland, OR, in spring 2013.)  The winners also receive funding for travel expenses (up to $1,000 each) to attend the award ceremony.

Contact john.camery@ieee.org for further information.

June 2012 Section Newsletter

Aloha and Welcome to the Hawaii Section Newsletter for June 2012!

* Additional info and updates available on the following blog:
http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com/

IEEE Awards and nominations

Our UH-Manoa Student Branch has received the Central Area Award and,
as such, will be nominated for the corresponding Region 6 award
which comprises the western U.S, the largest IEEE region in the U.S.
Congratulations!

On a related note, the Hawaii Section is thrilled to have just
organized a second student branch; this time on the UH-Maui Campus.
This opens the opportunity for Maui members to act as mentors. We
hope organizing the branch will be a landmark in the effort to
provide more local activities throughout the islands. The Student
Branch Counselor is Jungwon Park (jwp33@hotmail.com) who can give
you more information on helping out in this area.

IEEE Hawaii Section Online - New Website Competition
A competition, open to Hawaii Section Student Members (as
individuals or in teams). The goal is to create a modern, useful,
secure site to be the online presence for the Hawaii Section.
Templates that comply with the IEEE National guidelines are
available (for Wordpress). Other frameworks are acceptable (such as
Drupal or xAMP+HTML). The judging will be held in November, so
student members should form teams and begin work early in the Fall.
Contact Dave Morse for details: david.morse@ieee.org.

Congratulations to Kailua HS, the MATE-2012 first place winners!
The MATE-2012 Hawaii Underwater Robot Challange was held Saturday,
May 19th at Richardson pool, Pearl Harbor. At our last Hawaii
Section EXCOM Meeting, Mark Rognstad asked for other IEEE members
volunteer to act as judges. IEEE members, Song Choi, Al Toda and
David Morse volunteered to act as judges. The first place team will
be invited to compete in the nationals at Orlando, Florida.

Volunteer Opportunities

There are many ways members can become involved with their local
IEEE. The Hawaii Section is looking for a volunteer to serve as
Membership Development Chair. You'll begin by participating in a
monthly webinar to learn about membership development and ordering a
free membership development kit with promotional items to hand out
at events. The next webinar is 9AM, Monday, July 9, 2012. Please
contact John Camery <john.camery@gmail.com> for more information.

July Monthly Meeting - Date Change & Agenda

We usually hold a dinner meeting the first Monday of each month.
However, we are holding our July meeting on on the second Monday,
July 9, 2012. Our dinner meeting will be at the usual place 5:30PM
at Zippy's, 59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. All are
welcome to attend. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.
Agenda items will include: - Forming committee to draft future
conference bids. - Scheduling Section and Chapter meetings to meet
requirments. - Call for nominations for Computer Society Chapter
officers. - Other items TBA.

Please forward your corrections or comments to david.morse@ieee.org.
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