Kartik Kulkarni, Chair, IEEE SIGHT Steering Committee

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• The Kerala SIGHT groups will be hosting a Community Engagement Workshop at GHTC-SAS September 26 in Kerala, India
• SIGHT Chile will be hosting a Community Engagement Workshop at the Region 9 Student Congress October 2 - 5 in Santiago, Chile 
• There will be a SIGHT informational workshop held at GHTC, October 12 in San Jose, CA, USA

SIGHT projects proposed by IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) members are eligible to apply for PES Member-Driven Initiatives funding. Applicants are advised to submit early.

The IEEE Mexican Humanitarian Technology Conference (MHTC) will take place March 18 - 19, 2015 in Puebla, Mexico. Paper submission deadline: November 4.

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Send your suggestions and ideas to Holly Schneider Brown, SIGHT Program Manager, at h.s.brown@ieee.org. 

 

 

 

 

 

While some may feel they need to travel far in order to do good, the IEEE SIGHT program's whole premise is to have local impact. As such, the Boise, Idaho, USA SIGHT group has devised two projects that utilize engineering to assist their local community.

 

In the first project, the group is helping refugees with engineering experience but unfamiliar with the US job market to hone their resumes. In this way, they can apply for jobs commensurate with their education and experience, rather than lower skilled positions. 

 

The second project was a week-long STEM camp for local Native American children. KidWind materials were used to introduce the engineering design process and measurements of energy and power generated with different wind turbine blade designs, among other activities.

 

 

For more information, please contact Boise SIGHT Chair Kip Sikes at kip.sikes.us@ieee.org. 

 

The SIGHT Engagement Subcommittee had many excellent applicants to consider for the SIGHT Conference Participation Support Program. This program provides up to US$750 in travel expenses for SIGHT volunteers who have a paper accepted or are invited to speak at a conference.

 

Our second round of recipients include:

• Andres Astudilo @GHTC - San Jose: Colombia SIGHT
• Dara Dotz @GHTC - San Jose: Santa Clara Valley SIGHT
• Arun Noel Victor @GHTC - San Jose: Madras SIGHT

 

SIGHT created a video of some of our visitors at Sections Congress:

 

IEEE SIGHT at Sections Congress

 

Now we invite YOU to submit your own video, so we can tell the greater SIGHT story!

 

Grab your mobile phone and answer the following questions:

 

 

Send your video to Thai Win at t.win@ieee.org. 

Speakers: Laura Hosman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University & Bruce Baikie, Executive Director, Inveneo

You can also catch a recording of last month's webinar: Humanitarians in the Sky: How UAVs are Changing Disaster Response.