DAYTONA SECTION QUARTERLY REPORT
  APRIL 2005
 
We have had our three monthly meetings with presentations on Spectral
Sliced Technology Applied to Optical LANs, by Charles Husbands, of
Blackhorse, on January 20, Analyzing Legacy Systems with the
Architecture Analysis and Design Language, by Dr. David Gluch of ERAU on
February 24, and New Findings from Mars and Titan and other moons, by
Roger R. Hoefer, Curator of Astronomy for Volusia County Schools and the
Museum of Arts and Sciences Planetarium, March 24.

An award was made to David Kundinger, a local Deland high school student
in the Tomoka Science Fair competition.  In addition he and his father
were guests at our  February meeting where he briefly described the
results of his investigation of the frequency dependence of light
propagation in optical fibers.

The Life Members and others are hosting a Pizza & Sub interactive
meeting on Wednesday, April 6, with ERAU students in which career war
stories and career intelligence will be batted about.

Our next meeting will be on April 21 and include a presentation of  R&D
made by ERAU students with the guidance of Dr. Al Helfick and other
faculty.

Front page billing in a the New Smyrna Observer, a local paper, of the
very accessible astronomy talk netted us one lay walk-in who remained
enthousiastic.  Presumably the public exposure softened the ground for
future outreach.

We are working on an increasingly wide distribution of  the hard copy of
our newsletter SPARKS, in order to reach non-members in
academia,government, and tech business.  We envisage sending it as an
ezine to the same population along with reminders of meetings instead of
expecting them to access the material on the website, but we are
hampered by lack of email addresses!

We have a couple a new faces belonging to high achievers who may be
drafted into activity.

We hope to focus on a few projects which can be shared with the public
and/or enhance the life of professionals.  We have to look at the low
density of science and engineering professionals in the area as the
inducement, not the disincentive.  While we hope to go beyond a "dinner
club," the monthly meetings are still a real embellishment in the lives
of  local members and students and promote the discipline and the
organization which provides other benefits.

Dr. JANE Owen
2005 Daytona Section Chair