Student Activities Committee Excomm Report (1/04) Bruce L. Walcott (b.walcott@ieee.org) Trish Davis (pdavis@ieee.org) RSAC Goals and Objectives: Director Bill Harrison has requested that RSAC set three primary goals for the coming year. These goals are: 1. To continue to implement SAC 2004-06 5strategic plan and increase section/branch interaction in anticipation of 05 Section's Congress. 2. In consultation with SAC, to develop a one-stop shop for all student branch information and reporting forms. 3. To continue to increase the student branch reporting rate in Region 3 Report: Student Leadership Training Workshops In terms of student activities this past fall, we held five Student Leadership Training Workshops in Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Raleigh and Orlando. These Student Leadership Training Workshops have proven to be a great way to meet fellow IEEE student leaders at nearby schools as well as a catalyst for planning upcoming student branch activities. RSAC wishes to thank the STLW host schools: University of University of Alabama at Birmingham, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech/North Carolina State University (co-hosts), Georgia Tech, and the University of South Florida. The workshops could not happen if it were not for the volunteerism of our workshop trainers. Thanks to: Birmingham: David Green and Pat Donohoe Nashville: Bruce Walcott and Andy Dozier Orlando: Eric Ackerman, Joey Duvall, Trish Davis, Butch Shadwell and Jim Howard Raleigh: Lou Lovas Atlanta: John Matthews and Chase Battaglio These fine people took a Saturday away from their families to lead our Student Leadership Training Workshops. The following Region 3 student branches attended one of the five Student Leadership Training Workshops: UAB Miss. State Univ. Vanderbilt CBU UK UT-Martin Tennessee State FIT UCF USF FAMU UNF North Carolina A&T NC GTCC NCSU Virginia Tech GATech Alabama A&M SPSU Auburn Clark Atlanta University FAMU/FSU Southeastcon 2004 This year's Southeastcon will be held in Greensboro, North Carolina March 26-28 2004. This year, the student portion of the conference is the result of a dedicated group of students and faculty volunteers at the Guilford Tech, North Carolina A&T, and UNC Greensboro. This year's hardware contest will be located indoors on a large 20'x12' indoor carpet. The object for the competition is to build an autonomous vehicle which will "hunt" a deer, a rabbit, and a duck. These are represented by steel ball bearings located at various positions around the course. The order of hunting is determined by an LED signalling Morse Code. This year's contest is a radical departure from contests in the past in terms of physical size and it will be interesting to see the vehicles manage the extra distance demands. Complete rules can be found at: https://www.guilfordtechrobotics.org/ RSAC is extremely excited about the first hardware contest to involve It is a "Walking Robot" contest open to high school students and is the brain child of Dr. Numan Dogan and his Pre-College Program Committee! 20 Kits will provided at no-charge to high schools who wish to enter. Good show, Dr. Dogan, and let us know how RSAC can help! Details located at: https://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/secon04/precollege/index.html While the Hardware Contest has become the "crowning jewel" of Southeastcon, there many other student activities to participate in. These include the Software Design Contest, the Web Site Design Contest, the T-Shirt Design Contest and a party! Some very exciting news is that this year's software contest is using the well-known and established ACM programming contest rules as guidelines. Details for these activities can be found on the student activities web page, https://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/secon04/student/index.html While the host schools are responsible for these contests, RSAC is responsible for the paper contest. Details for the 2004 paper contest can be found at: https://www.engr.uky.edu/csl/rsac/secon2004/paperrules.htm Deadlines Some upcoming important SAC deadlines are: January 31: Deadline for Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award. If you know of an IEEE student member who has served IEEE in an extraordinary fashion, take a minute to nominate him or her. (see: https://www.ieee.org/membership/students/awards/sc_wilson.html ) February 1st: Deadline for Exemplary Branch Award nomination. Every branch nominated and meeting the criteria will receive this award! (see: https://www.ieee.org/membership/students/awards/sc_exemplary.html ) February 28th: Deadline for Outstanding Branch Counselor award. If your Student Branch Counselor is outstanding, let him or her know that you feel this way (see: https://www.ieee.org/membership/students/awards/sc_counselor.html ) March 1st: Deadline for submission to paper contest (see: https://www.engr.uky.edu/csl/rsac/secon2004/paperrules.htm )