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1. RAC IV – Orange County Section

   January 28, 2012 Kimberly Castro - Chair
2. Agenda Mission Statement Membership Status Council Meeting Summary Financials Section Status: Career and Workforce Development Young Professional Honors and Awards: NSTR Education : K-12 STEM Outreach Technical Public Policy
3. Mission Statement Increase membership, initiate direct and frequent contact with existing members, identify programs and activities that align with membership demographics and continue support to STEM-related projects
4. Membership Status (Bob Welge) Efforts to establish more interesting activities and increased communication have helped stabilize membership
5. Council Meeting Status Four (4) council meetings were held since last RAC meeting Holiday Meeting at BJ’s Pizza Restaurant
6. Section Financials Checking account = $14,127.61 Savings account = $10,769.07 Income/Expenses = $4,568.20 Support to Lego Registration 787 Test Pilot Speaker Series OCEC check rebate Just budgeted $1500 to sponsor March CVD participation
7. Career and Workforce Development October 2011 – Financial Planning Seminar Informative session on financial planning process and basics in evaluating insurance needs, identifying tax savings strategies, coordinating estate plans so you can have an idea on how to managing a proper investment strategy based on risk and income needs January-February 2012 -“The New Economy for 2012” series Economic update for 2012 Income strategies for retirement Stock market: Past, Present, Future Living Trusts: Current Updates and Future Trends Tax Law Changes for 2012-13 & how they can affect you Finding Potential Opportunities in the Future
8. Young Professionals January 27, 2012 – Space X Tour Great response from both OC and LA Sections! Seeking more Space X tour opportunities (on 100 active Space X job opportunities Average age of Space X employee population is 28! More upcoming YP Events include: Mentorship opportunities for TARC, SLI, DBF More facility tours…
9. Education –K-12 STEM Outreach This year we have two Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) teams again. TARC is the world’s largest student rocket competition and is sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry. This year nearly 700 Teams are formed of students in grades 7 through 12. The challenge is to design, build and launch a rocket that will go to exactly 800 ft with a total time aloft of 43 to 47 seconds while carrying two raw hens eggs and returning them unbroken. One of the AIAA OC Section’s teams is Jr. High aged kids. They have completed their design and have almost finished building the rocket. The other team is all high school aged kids. They have completed several rockets and narrowed down the design to the one they want to use. On several outings they have fine tuned the rocket to the proper time but a little over the desired altitude at 821 feet. Both teams will go to the ROC launch at Lucerne Dry Lake in February to continue fine tuning. If they are in the top 100 teams (based on a witnessed qualification flight) they will attend the National fly-off near Washington, DC in May. OC AIAA’s Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) visited Arborland Montessori students (First thru 6th graders)
10. Education – Student Launch Initiative (SLI) Two years ago the AIAA OC Section TARC team placed 8th in the nation and was invited to participate in the NASA Student Launch Initiative program for two years. This program mimics a real engineering project where the team members respond to a proposal from NASA to design build and fly a rocket to an altitude of 1 mile carrying a scientific or engineering payload. The team’s proposal was accepted; they go on to write a Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, and Flight Readiness Review. And each review is presented via WebEx to engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center. This year the team has chosen to launch and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle from their rocket as it descends to 1,000 ft. At 400 ft it will be released from its parachute and be flown by RC control as well as autonomously using a GPS and sensor guided autopilot. The UAV will also carry a video camera with a live feed to that ground station. This is a very ambitious project and the AIAA has provided valuable guidance and resources. The project culminates when the team travels to Huntsville, Alabama in April for a “Rocket Fair” at Marshall Space Flight Center. Team members also receive a tour of some of MSFC and launch their rocket with the University teams. The team has completed the design of the full scale rocket (10 ft long, 5 inches in diameter weighing a little over 20 pounds) and built and flown successfully a 60% scale model. They have written and presented their PDR and just submitted their CDR. They need to successfully fly the full scale vehicle and deploy and fly the UAV payload by April 2012. SLI team exhibited at the AIAA OC Section’s STEM booth in Education Alley at Space 2011. They led two rocket building sessions and one launch with the Los Angeles Area Girl Scouts. They gave presentations to over 300 students at St Norbert’s school in Orange. They are currently working with the Girl Scouts of Orange County on a similar build and fly program for this spring. They will once again have a booth at Youth Expo at the Orange County Fairgrounds in May. The booth promotes rocketry and STEM, TARC, SLI, AIAA and NAR. What are they doing?
11. More STEM related involvement… NAR SECTION 718: The AIAA OC Section Rocketry club is NAR Section #718. We have monthly meetings to learn about rocketry and design and build rockets. They club also goes to the desert to launch at least once a month. We have spawned one rocketry club at Salem School in Orange. And we have been asked to start an after school program at St. Norbert’s school also in Orange. All of these programs work to inspire kids in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. And they work. Over the years we have had many students go on to study engineering and science in college. Last year alone one student went on to study Aerospace Engineering at Purdue and two others went on to study Aerospace Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. Most of the high school students this year are interested in engineering and the seniors are applying to Cal Tech, MIT, Harvey Mudd, John Hopkins, and University of Alabama in engineering AIAA OC Section Rocketry website: http://aiaaocrocketry.org Team America Rocketry Challenge website: http://www.rocketcontest.org Student Launch Initiative website: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/descriptions/Student_Launch_Initiative.html
12. Technical Ninth (9th) Annual AIAA Southern California Aerospace Systems & Technology Conference & Banquet, Saturday May 19, 2012 Keynote Speakers John S. Langford, President and CEO, Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation The Manned UAV: Where the Revolution is Headed William J. Harding, Director, Program Management, United Launch Alliance (ULA) Launch Vehicle Processing and Delta/Atlas Launch Vehicle Overview and Capabilities High School Poster Displays ***NEW THIS YEAR*** We would like to invite high school students to present their science projects or science fair entrees in our poster display area. Come show off what you’ve done and meet professionals in the industry and academia. A special discounted rate of $20 for the conference is available to high school students with a poster display. For more information or to reserve your spot contact Mr. Dino Roman at dino.roman@boeing.com.
13. Public Policy Active preparation and participation in Congressional Visits Day coming up in March Reviewing Presidential Candidate Questions Publicizing Region 6’s Public Policy Colloquium
14. Summary Striving to schedule 1 event per month (tour, speaker, dinner/movie events, etc…) OC Demographic is comprised of professional members, thereby identifying activities, meetings, speakers centered around their needs Considering family oriented events Increased communication to both LA and OC sections have proven valuable