1. New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania-Rhode Island
Connecticut-Delaware-District of Columbia-Maine Maryland-Massachusetts-New Hampshire-Vermont
New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania-Rhode Island
Region 1

2. Former Members (i.e. transferred, retired, resigned)
Curtis Bradley, Massachusetts Beth Klemann, New Hampshire Camille Crichton-Sumners, New Jersey Colin Franco, Rhode Island Bill Ahern, Vermont
Curtis to NC
Beth to MN
Camille to TRB
Bill retired
Colin playing other roles

3. Welcome New Members Connecticut District of Columbia New Jersey
Flavia E. Pereira, Career Trainee/Planner
District of Columbia
Stefanie Brodie, Program Specialist
New Jersey
Amanda Gendek, Project Manager
Kimbrali Davis, Project Manager
Vermont
Emily Parkany, Research Manager
Rhode Island
Jo Lima
Flavia: -Here at RAC
Emily: -Here at RAC
Kimbrali: -Here at RAC, serving in the interim as RAC rep until a new manager is hired
Amanda: -Serving as research manager in interim
Stefanie: -Started a month ago

4. Our Top Takeaways Mentimeter is awesome!
Maine: Work with Media office to produce webinars/videos for successful research projects
DC: Innovate ITD as an approach to make our STIC more productive.
Maryland: Exploring the use of a technical writer Possible Infravation participation
Vermont: Dream hire = implementation engineer
New Jersey: Business requirements for research model (PM&Q)
Connecticut: Implementation should be part of the project from the very beginning but it is also important to formalize the implementation process.

5. Cool Things in Our Region
District of Columbia
DistrictMobility.org
New England (ME, VT, NH, RI, CT, MA)
The NETC transition
Maine is the new Lead State
Maryland
Communications not spam! Announcements of published research from TRB, FHWA, and the states are posted on the Intranet and then routed to an group of employees who sign up to receive information on topic areas.

6. Cool Things In Our Region
Vermont
Inaugural Research Symposium, co-hosted with STIC
New Jersey
18th Annual Research Showcase – check out the presentations, all posted to the web
Connecticut
Started introducing research at the new employee orientation – raise awareness from the start!

7. Region 1 response to AASHTO Re-Org
We see value in crossing over between innovation and research groups.
Better coordination is a generally of value
Relationship between research and innovation varies by state
Several of our research programs are getting involved more directly or running our STICs, changing the relationship between innovation and research in some cases.
Region had questions about AII oversight generally and going forward

8. Thank you, Kentucky!