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JANUARY 2012
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Newsletter Editor - Madeleine Lowe

Chairman's Message - Jason Hui
Jason reveals his vision for the Section and the two key themes he is promoting in 2012.

WIN A KINDLE or NOOK   Contest closing February 15th
YOU MUST ENTER - ATTENDING A MEETING IS NOT ENOUGH.
Unfortunately I do not have the resources to get your name from attendance lists, so please Click on the link. There are only a few questions - won't take more than a minute and enter for EACH meeting.  If you have attended any NH IEEE meeting since Sept 1st - go to the link below and enter your entry.
Good Luck.  
Click HERE to Enter or for more information.

IEEE MEETINGS
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 COTS Based High Performance Wide Bandwidth Data Acquistion  - Tuesday January 26th
Mikael Taveniku, President & CEO of Xcube, will show how carefully selected and glued together commercial off the shelf components can be used to produce a high performance deployed application.


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Building Trust in the Cloud, Going Beyond Security - Tuesday January 31
Wayne Pauley from EMC Corporation's Cloud Team will speak on the trade-offs necessary for building a trusted cloud.
7pm: Southern NH University, Manchester, NH .


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Consultants Network
Working with the CID Lab Initiative  - Thursday February 2nd
A continuation of the meeting last month with a focus on innovation collaboration with new Hampshire academia, industry and other organizations.
Register & more information  www.consultantsnh.org
Meetings - First Thursdays:
 normally at Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester, NH.

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Engineers Week 2012 Awards Banquet & Exhibition February 16th  Manchester, NH  
Educational sessions worth PDHs - FUN topics - Building Backyard Submarines!
Dinner & Keynote (Carl Quiram) on Global Solutions


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IEEE Region 1 Student Conference
 March 10-11 Hartford, CT.
Student Members are invited to a two-day event featuring a micromouse, t-shirt design and other competitions.  Please pass the word to any Student Members you know.

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Robotics and Automation - Next Meeting - March 15th
VGO - Development of the VGo robot system: robot, desktop software and communication.
Meetings - Third Thursdays: normally at Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester NH.

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Congressional Visit Day  
April 24-25th   Application due March 6th
Visit Congress in Washington, DC.  The Awards Committee will select a qualified member to sponsor for this trip.  Get more info if you would like to apply.


ANNOUNCEMENTS


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Membership Activities  by Jason Hui
 
Lots of new members and new-to-us members!
Read bios of our newest Senior Members, Ted Cooley, Paul Meaney, and John Oates.

Volunteer Positions Open  
 Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch!
 Read about the positions that still need a volunteer.  Descriptions include time committment estimates so check it out.
JOBSITE    PACE  - Un/Under Employed ?   
Let us know what we can do to help?  Training? Networking? Support groups? Interview practice?  
Consider volunteering for one of our open positions and network with the other ExCom members.
Email me with any ideas you have or to be included in our discussion group 
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Advocates for Improving Science Education
Jim Isaak recommends a forum for those interested in recommending and advocation for improved science education in NH.  

 OTHER MEETINGS OF INTEREST

Science Cafe: Biomass  January 18th
Barley House, Concord, NH  7pm (monthly meetings - except Dec)
Science Cafe New Hampshire is a grassroots effort to foster science-based discussion around issues critical to our future.

NH-ASCE Seabrook Station January 25th
Come learn about the nuclear power generation in our backyard. Dinner meeting in Manchester.
IEEE members get the reduced price of $35
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NH High Tech Council - Entrepreneur Forum  February 8th
Companies present their business plans to a panel

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Newsletter Editor - Madeleine Lowe