Ideas For Improving Section/Student Branch Cooperation
Hold some section meetings on campus.
Organize a tour as a section meeting and invite the student members.
Use students as speakers at a section meeting.
Help the student branch get started selling "lab kits" to beginning EE majors.
Offer one or more free lunches to students at a section lunch meeting.
Help the student branches organize activities with other student branches.
Use a Section Picnic as a fund raiser for the student branch.
Get involved in National Engineers Week activities. Buttons, cups, banners, and video presentations can be purchased on the National Engineers Week web site.
Involve Student Branch members in pre-college activities. Remember, these activities also qualify as PACE activities!
An All-Around Excellent Idea
Organize an activity where elemetary school children draw a picture to the theme "what an engineer does."
Use the best pictures to create a calander. (Note: this also would qualify as a PACE activity.)
Area/Section Leaders
(Back, left-to-right): Laura Tolle (Eastern Idaho), Linda Stuffle (Area Awards), Hope Forsmann (Area PACE), Casey Johnston (Western Montana), Scott Smith (Boise), David Allred (Utah), Larry Strizich (Montana), Bill Rhoads (Western Montana).
(Front, left-to-right): Don Bauer (Western Montana), Richard Wolff (Montana), Doug Galarus (Montana), Michael Rice (Area Chair).
Student Leadership Training Workshop
Download
a copy of the SLTW presentation (MS Powerpoint file).
Students from Branches at MSU-Northern, MSU, Montana Tech, ISU, BYU-Idaho, BSU, USU, and BYU participate
in the Student Leadership Training Workshop. The Workshop was conducted by Randy Jost, Gabe Loftus, and Elizabeth Johnson.
Fall 2006 Meeting Information
Date
Saturday, 16 September 2006
Location
Fairmont Hot Springs Resort 1500 Fairmont Road Fairmont, Montana 59711 (between Anaconda and Butte, Montana)
Lodging
Farimont Hot Springs Resort 800 332 3272
When you make your reservation, state that you are part of the "IEEE" group.
Our group rate is 89.00 + tax per night for single/double occupancy.
The cut-off date for making reservations is 8 September 2006, so act soon!
For those of you flying, go ahead and make a reservation for the hotel's shuttle
when you make your reservation. The shuttle is $10.00 (one-way).
Getting to Butte
I anticipate that most of you will drive to Butte, Montana. Butte is located in northwestern Montana.
For those of you who need to fly (Utah Section, Region Officers), the nearest airport is in Butte.
The Fairmont Hot Springs Resorts operates an airport shuttle ($10.00 one way).
Lunch will be provided Saturday approximately 12:00 noon.
You will be reimbursed for any other meals as part of yourtravel to/from Butte, but you'll have to make your own arrangemens.
Agenda
Students: Students will be participating in a Student Leadership Training Workshop (SLTW).
The SLTW is an official IEEE program and will be led by an experienced leader.
It is important that at least one officer from each student branch attend the SLTW.
Section, Area, Region Officers: The grown-ups will be holding a separate, parallel meeting conducting the usual Region and Area
business.
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