 Note from the Chair
We want to find out more about you! Please take the time to complete our brief survey, and keep us posted on your SIGHT group's activities and needs. Thank you for all you do!
Kartik Kulkarni, Chair, IEEE SIGHT Steering Committee
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Learn more about SIGHT
Here's a an overview of SIGHT group locations around the world.
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Recent SIGHT Group Activities
- Welcome San Diego Section SIGHT! Third new group of the year and third group in IEEE Region 6.
- Argentina SIGHT is working on Project Biotech to to create a meta-language and model linguistic reasoning of autistic patients.
- Universidad Diego Portales IEEE SIGHT held the Technological Caravan in four vulnerable and isolated localities in Chile.
- After an incredibly successful project in 2013, Madras SIGHT is conducting its second National Level Student Competition on Renewable Energy - see details below.
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Calls for Papers and Upcoming Events
TEDA National Level Student Competition on Renewable Energy
Tamil Nadu, India
Online registration & project details submission deadline: March 15, 2014
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We want to hear from you!
Please let us know what you would like to read about in upcoming SIGHT newsletters.
Send your suggestions and ideas to Holly Schneider Brown, SIGHT Program Manager, at h.s.brown@ieee.org. |
IEEE SIGHT
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-4141
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What does "humanitarian technology" mean to you?
IEEE SIGHT participants and supporters come from a wide range of backgrounds across the globe. Given this diversity, we want to know what the work means for you, why you are or would like to be involved, and what you are aiming to achieve.
We will report back to you on the results in a future newsletter. Your feedback will help create a richer program for participants around the world in 2014.
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SIGHT Photo Contest Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the first SIGHT Photo Contest!
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Find out all the winners here!
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IEEE Hong Kong SIGHT presents CARDnival.org
With a mission to serve children with special educational needs (SEN) (Autism Spectrum Disorders and/or Dyslexia in particular), an industry-university-SEN community partnership is formed in Hong Kong to conduct an IEEE HK SIGHT project - CARDnival.org.
The project is supported by the CARDnival platform (developed and supported by MB & Partners Ltd.), which is a bilingual (Chinese and English) social media platform for speech therapists, SEN teachers, parents, and volunteers to produce and share digital picture cards for learning and daily communication. Currently, the CARDnival platform has been adopted in classroom teaching in a pilot school serving children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Hong Kong.
Please kindly contact Professor Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan for further information about this IEEE HK SIGHT endeavour, or visit http://www.strikingly.com/cardnival for more information about the CARDnival project.
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RAS SIGHT moves forward with robotics competition
The IEEE Robotics & Automation Society SIGHT is inviting the academic and non-academic community to participate in the first Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge (HRATC) at the 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '14). The group solicited team description papers earlier this month and received 13 submissions from eight countries, including Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Pakistan, Portugal, and USA. Accepted teams will be notified soon. Find out more information about the event, to be held May 31 and June 1, on their website.
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Educational Resources
Advances in Household Water Treatment: A Webinar on Products and Standards
- Tuesday, March 25, 2014
- 11am - 12pm EDT / 3pm - 4pm UTC
- Presented by Ryan Rowe of The Water Institute, Nikki Beetsch of WHO, and Daniele Lantagne of Tufts University
- Read full details at Engineering for Change.
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