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• 1997
• 1998
  • notes

Transcribed by Holly Ridings

• Embedded in NASA — NAAA
• Networking
• Electronic web plan for future
  • Need a committee
  • Those who expressed an interest in the working group at the Congress-
    • Mike Baine
    • Diana Coleman
    • Ian Ruiz
    • Don Olinger
    • Brian Roberts

• Relationship with parent organization
  • Spacegrant, NSS, etc.

• Political and/or educational/public outreach
• Get Spacegrants, etc. involved
  • i.e. what do they get out of it
• Do we need a new office? V.P. of Outreach/P.R. Exec
• Political and other wise: educational…same office?
• Lobby: how to accomplish it?
  • We should all be doing this
  • NAAA could facilitate?
• What role can we play in Government?
  • What are rules and regulations Information on the rules the NAAA has to follow regarding lobbying can be found on the tax-exempt information page.
• Make contacts with Congressional staffers in home state
• Those who expressed an interest in the Outreach Working Group at the Congress-
  • Jacob Yates
  • Adam London
  • Michelle Minitti
  • Matt Meineke
  • Jane Thorpe
  • Ian Ruiz
  • Andrew Hoppin
  • Laura Burns
  • Srimal Wangu
• NAAA interaction with Academies
  • Group project
    • Belongs to Academy
    • Supply resources but not "take over"
    • Add area of expertise on membership form
      • Staff at each center get the areas of expertise to use for the group project each year
      The membership form has been updated.
    • Staff as "gatekeeper"
    • Alumni provide money for group project but as backup source
    • Share lessons learned from other group projects with Academies?

• Thoughts on flow of information
• Did you feel informed?
• Where can the members find our incorporation information Out tax-exempt information has recently been summarized on the web.

• Annual Conference
  • Hold annual technical conference like professional organization i.e.IEEE
  • Location for conference needs a lure
  • NASA center
  • Skiing J
  • Find a function to piggy back on
    • This will dictate time of year?
  • Look for event first!

• Board of Advisors
  • Develop plan — discuss on list?
  • Draft short charter
  • These people could help with support (?NASA HQ)
  • Who should they be?
  • Dr. Soffen probably not on it
  • Small group (4-5 people; 8 is probably too large for us)
  • Geographical limitations…or not
  • More prestigious help up front
  • P.O.C. in alumni to pull together
  • Reasons and role of advisors?
  • Paragraph in bylaws, ratify by group
  • Actual advisors or an in to other things
  • What do the advisors get out of it?
  • Potential employees
  • Academics must show service in their field
  • Board of Trustees/Directors — explore other roles
  • NAAA staff research in next several months
  • Those who expressed an interest in the Board of Advisors Working Group at the Congress
    • Holly Ridings
    • Mike Baine
    • Jacob Yates
    • Lila Engle
    • David Vaughan
    • Adam London
    • Matt Meineke
    • Diana Coleman
    • Jane Thorpe
    • Ian Ruiz
    • Laura Burns
    • Jeffrey Wills

• Elections
  • Put statements of candidates on web The candiates statements from the 1999 election were in the Novemeber 1998 Newsletter
  • Put pictures of candidates on web

• Tap into Academy connections for use by alumni
  • Speakers, etc.
  • Possibly update database to include speakers
    • Should this be private
  • How to give staff type experience to general members
  • Put NAAA presentations to Space Grants on the web as wellas other NASA Academy presentations The presentations the NAAA have given every year at the annual Space Grant Directors meeting have been added to the Space Grant Presentation page. In addition, the presentation shown at the end of the summer to graduates of the NASA Academy program have been added to the Welcome to the NAAA Videoconference page.

• Reaching for the Stars goals…
  • ISE project
  • Put together proposal
  • How design things when spread out…

• How get other Academies involved in NAAA?
• Individual contact
• Rotate location of alumni conference
• Cater to differences in Academies
• Send NAAA to each Academy during the summer
• P.O.C. from each Academy (by NASA center)
• Rep from each year on Board…
• How get people to apply?
  • Alumni recruit: increase quality and quantity
  • Bypass Spacegrant in certain cases
  • Alumni member of Spacegrant selection committee
  • Applications go to alumni?
  • Dialogue between NAAA and Spacegrants
  • Mechanism for application (alumni letter of recommendation — maybe add to application)
  • Who sits on panel and how do they get selected

• Spacegrant director as advocate

• Applications between centers
  • Staff retreat