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Meeting Notes

Home Page: SacramentoL5Society.org

SacL5 Officers: Joe Bland President, Jan Rosten VP, Ed Kulis Secretary (click name to email)

• Greetings – Attendees! 
  
  • Joeseph, Paul, Michael, Kris, Ed, Joe
• Updates and General Chapter Business
  
  • President’s and Treasurer’s Report(Joe Bland)
    
    • About $10,000 in the account and there’s also the $4500 funds paid to JP Aerospace for the Student Stem Balloon Flight Prize. 
  • Update on SacL5 Website Report(Ed Kulis)
    
    • Recent Website Additions
      
      • Sacremento L5 Society Gallery
        
        • See a slide show collection of SacL5 Website artwork
      • NSS Local Chapters Community Blog
        
        • This page is intended to collect notes on activities of all the NSS Chapters. Ed Kulis will reach out to other chapters to get information on the locations of their websites and the notes they would like to publish.
        • Ed will also ask that Chapters create a page like this on their website to foster mutual awareness and communication. 
        • Email Ed Kulis if you would like to talk about adding your chapters info to this page.
    • Previous Meeting Notes
    • Recent Website Traffic Report
  • NSS Chapters Assembly Notes
    
    • The International Space Development Conference occurred, this year In Los Angeles at the Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel Thursday, May 23rd to Sunday, May 26th, 2024
  • NOTE: NSS Chapters Committee(CC) vs NSS Chapters Assembly(CA)
    
    • The NSS Chapters Committee is the formal NSS governing body for NSS Chapters. The CC establishes rules regarding recognition of a group as a NSS Chapter and how NSS receives and acts on input from NSS Chapters. A loose analogy is that NSS Chapters are “franchised” by NSS and must conform to standards and practices set by the CA.
      
      • The NSS Chapters Assembly is a association of interested representatives from different NSS Chapters. The CA proposes changes and suggests novelty and improvements to the CC and the NSS. They also vet any CA rule changes that might impede Chapters recruitment, visibility, activities and access to key NSS contacts.
    •  NSS Headquarters at the Cape offers tours of Kennedy Space Center 
  • CA Chapters Resource Subcommittee(Ed Kulis)
    
    • Recent NSS Resources for Chapters Page
    • Ed and Perri published the Spring Resource Chapters Page which is also published in the NSS Downlink.
• High School STEM Contest
  
  • High School STEM Contest Page
  • Contest Press Release 12/10/23 
  • We will follow up with the Sacramento School of Science and Engineering to determine their activity in anticipation of the next JP Aerospace MiniCube balloon flight. 
  • We should look into expanding the Balloon Flight Prizes to colleges.
• General Discussion
  
  • The late Robert Compton, our SacL5 founder. published a Physics text book like no other.
    
    • Design Notes Log G,O.D (General Operations Director)
      
      • This is a text book like no other. It follows the mental processes of the lonely Creator, defining matter to enhance the experience of existence and then creating time to distinguish matter as it moves. The logic continues in this way to build the intuition and demonstrate the mathematics required in the first few years of college physics courses.
      • Some of you may remember that thrill. as you learned the calculus of derivatives providing the symbols that could move the static structures of algebra through the pictures in your mind. Compton’s book continues this thrilling awe that mathematics creates as its symbols correspond mostly to the universe with enough accuracy to create houses and steeples and medicine and instruments to travel beyond the clouds and deep into atoms.
• SacL5 Writers Group
  
  • See Paul Turner’s Publications at Cle Curbo on Spotify and Space Trade Update