[Seds-announce] SEDS-USA Announcements: 2/16/05

[josh neubert]

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February 16^th , 2005

 

*_SEDS - HEADLINES_*

 

   1. University of Illinois Chosen as the 2005 National Conference Host.
   2. Join Your Regional SEDS Expansion Team.
   3. Goddard Symposium, ISDC, and Return to the Moon Coordination Teams
      Formed.
   4. SEDS Exec Board Meeting Time Change.

 

 

*University** of Illinois Chosen as the 2005 National Conference Host.*

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Two proposals to host the 2005 SEDS-USA conference were submitted. Based 
on these proposals chapters voted 5 to 3 in favor of having the 
conference at the University of Illinois. Congratulations to the 
Illinois team. Regular monthly status updates will be sent out 
concerning the development of the conference. Anyone can get involved in 
this year's SEDS-USA conference. If you are interested in helping 
organize the event please contact Kirk Kittell at kittell at uiuc.edu 
<mailto:kittell at uiuc.edu>. The webpage for the conference will be 
located at www.space2005.org <http://www.space2005.org/> but will not be 
operational for several days.
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*Chapter votes were as follows:**
Arizona - votes for Illinois
Embry Riddle - votes for UCF
Hawaii - votes for Illinois
Illinois - votes for Illinois
MIT - votes for UCF
Purdue - votes for Illinois
Texas A&M - votes for Illinois
UCF - votes for UCF

No other chapters sent in a vote. Therefore the final tally is 5 to 3 in 
favor of University of Illinois. The exact dates for the conference are 
not yet set; however, it will be held sometime in mid November.

 

 

*Join Your Regional SEDS Expansion Team.*

 

The Director of Expansion is implementing a program for reaching out to 
new schools across the nation. This program is organized into regions 
where each region will be run by an expansion team from local SEDS 
chapters. Each regional team will be contacting a number of other local 
schools to setup events and meetings with students to provide help in 
setting up a new chapter and organizing events. The University of 
Illinois has already begun a successful expansion program in their 
region, potentially initiating two new SEDS chapters to date.

 

If you are interested in helping the SEDS expansion efforts please 
contact Palash Basu, the national Director of Expansion, at 
pbasu2 at uiuc.edu <mailto:pbasu2 at uiuc.edu>

 

 

 

*Goddard Symposium, ISDC, and Return to the Moon Coordination Teams Formed.*

 

SEDS members will be attending the Goddard Memorial Symposium, the ISDC, 
and the Return to the Moon conference this spring. In order to ensure 
that as many students are able to attend these events as possible, we 
have setup coordination teams to work with the AAS, NSS, and Space 
Frontier Foundation. These teams will be working on organizing 
activities for students, and meeting space for SEDS during the events. 
The teams will also be attempting to find discounted airfares and cheap 
or free housing for SEDS members coming in from out of town.

 

The first two events (the Goddard Symposium and the ISDC) are being held 
in Washington DC. We will be working with students in the region to 
bring the SEDS network to their schools through these conferences. 
Social events will be coordinated during the events to provide a forum 
for current SEDS members to get to know the potential new chapters in 
the region. If you have friends in the area interested in space, or 
anyone willing to host fellow students for a couple nights for these 
events, please let our coordination teams know.

 

Each team could use more man power to help create the best experience 
for all the students interested in attending. If you are interested in 
working with SEDS and these other advocacy organizations to help more 
students be able to gather at these events, please contact Joshua 
Neubert, the SEDS-USA chairman, at neubert at higp.hawaii.edu 
<mailto:neubert at higp.hawaii.edu>

 

 

*SEDS Exec Board Meeting Time to be Changed.*

 

Currently, the SEDS-USA executive board has been holding regular 
meetings every first and third Wednesdays of the month. These meetings 
are open to the public but are used for official SEDS organization 
tasks. Feel free to sit in on the meetings, comments on how to improve 
SEDS-USA are always welcome.

 

Due to some schedule conflicts of executive board members, the time for 
these meetings is being changed to 11pm EST on the 1^st and 3^rd 
Wednesdays of each month. The next meeting will be held March 2^nd .

 

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