Virginia Council Report
IEEE Region 3 Excom. Meeting
March 31-April 2, 2006
Memphis, TN

Submitted: March 15, 2006

There are two projects on going at the Virginia Council Level.

SoutheastCon 2007
IEEE Liaison to the Virginia General Assembly.

SouteastCon 2007:

Preparation, planning, and organizing activities are underway to hold the SoutheastCon 2007
in Richmond, Virginia March 22 - 25, 2007, at the Richmond Marriott. The following
activities have been accomplished:

* Contract with the Marriott has been executed.
* Call for papers has been published.
* Student hardware competition general rules have been established.
* Support committees have been formed.
* The budget has been updated to reflect present conditions.

State Government Activities:

Work is being done on linking IEEE Virginia members with state legislators. The
organization is based on IEEE members living in areas represented by legislative senatorial
and delegate districts. IEEE-USA staff Russ Harrison is helping in this effort.

Other Activities:
* All Virginia sections elected new executive committees. Section reports have been sent to
  IEEE, and positions of representatives at the Virginia Council level are being sought to
  form new VA Council Committee.
* The bicycle generator was used with great interest at the Children Engineering Convention
  at the Marriott hotel, in the Richmond West End area, the weekend of February 24 -26,
  2006. Volunteers from the Richmond Section presented information about engineering at one
  of the Convention sessions to inform science teachers attending about engineering and the
  Teacher-in-service Training Program by IEEE.
* All sections organized activities and participated in the annual Engineers Week 2007
  banquets.
* The Richmond Section joined the Richmond Joint Engineers Council at the Engineering
  Careers Day at the Science Museum of Virginia.
   
Adeeb Hamzey
Virginia Council Chair