From: "Hill, Donald W" Subject: Conference Committee Report 4-3-2002 To: Region 3 Sections , Region 3 ExCom Cc: "'r3-conf@ieee.org'" Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:57:12 -0500 Region 3 Conference Committee 4-3-2002 SoutheastCon 2002 - The SEC02 Committee has prepared an excellent conference for the students, presenters, and volunteers of Region 3. We shall partake in their fruits this week. RADARCON in Huntsville - The local committee has set the conference planning in motion. Please tell all in your area about this 'local' conference in the middle of Region 3. SoutheastCon 2003 - The SEC03 Committee has designed the student hardware contest for next year. The students, counselors, and Committee will review the details for the 2003 contest this week. For those that have no passport, apply today and be ready for next year. SoutheastCon 2004 - The SEC04 Committee is working and forming ideas about their conference. Southcon 2003 - The conference is scheduled and preliminary advertisements have been placed. As always, the conference would like your help by identifying vendors that are interested in displaying. Charles Lord has refined and instituted registration for SoutheastCon 2002. We need your feedback as to how the registration process can be improved in coming years. All future Region 3 conferences will benefit from Charles' hard work and organizational skills. Charles Lord plans to teach interested Region 3 volunteers how to plan and execute a conference in their section. Charles will teach sections how to have small, valuable conferences in your section. Local and nearby members will benefit from easy access conferences. Charles may encourage you to have a future SoutheastCon. We welcome Steve Carroll as the Committee Vice Chair. Steve plans to help with the documenting and publicizing all conferences held within Region 3. I would like to thank all the members of the Conference Committee for their hard work this year and look forward to their input as we go forward. Respectfully, Don Hill Conference Chair 2002 1676 Donelwal Drive Lexington KY 40511-9021 H 859 259 0740 W 859 257 8487 C 859 489 IEEE F 859 323 3287 d.w.hill@ieee.org