1. IEEE UKRI SBCM 2012 Sohaib Qamar Sheikh IEEE R8 SAC Committee Member University of Westminster 31/10/2012

2. Team 9/21/20152

3. Stats As of July 2012: Students: 9269 Graduate Students: 11570 Total: 20839 Branch count: 410+ Student Branch Chapter count: 80+ 9/21/20153

4. Programs Student Paper Contest 50 th Anniversary Celebration Contest Twin Student Branch Awards 9/21/20154

5. Student Paper Contest SPC 2013 was announced in May 2012 Up to now SPC 2013 calls were twice sent to all Student Branches and SB Chapters Section Chairs, SSRs and SSACs were further asked to promote SPC within SBs SB papers deadline is December 15, 2012. An international Jury will anonymously review SB papers and select five best papers for R8 Oral Finals. SPC Oral Finals 2013 will be organized at EUROCON 2013 Conference, July 2013, Zagreb, Croatia. 9/21/20155

6. 50 th Anniversary Celebration Contest Region 8 is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year and the R8 SAC team would like to give out student branches the opportunity to organize events to commemorate this anniversary and win prizes while doing it! How to be involved in the 50th Anniversary Contest? Two different Category: 1) Video Contest ( Prize 600/300 Dollar) 2) Photo Contest ( Prize: 400/200 Dollar ) Application will be open between 31.11.2012 -06.01.2013 23.59 UTC. 9/21/20156

7. Twin Student Branch Technical/Administrative/Fun way to collaborate and exchange information between two student branches Already 26 Student Branches from 18 sections have been registered To signup, email us at r8sac@ieee.org 9/21/20157

8. Twin Student Branch ENSI (Tunisia Section) and Alex ( Egypt Section) University Of Zagreb (Croatia Section) and Universty of Macedonia (Macedonia Section) Telecom-Bretagne ( France Section) and American University of Beirut (Lebanon Section) St Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI (Russia Northwest Section) and Dogus University (Turkey Section) University of Graz (Austria Section) and Lljubljana (Slovenia Section) Misr University for Science & Technology /MUST (Egypt Section) and Technological Education Institute of Piraeus /TEI Piraeus (Greece Section) ITU (Turkey Section) and IST (Portugal Section) Bilkent Universty and Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis/ Sub'Com (Tunisia Section) IEEE AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland Section) and Technical University of Madrid (Spain Section) 9/21/20158

9. Student Branch and GOLD Congress 2012 467 attendees (A new record) 293 students 45 GOLD members 53 countries 5 day program 9/21/20159

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11. Video 9/21/201511

12. Xtreme 6.0 24 hour programming competition 1700+ teams 9/21/201512

13. Awards IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award IEEE Region 8 Student Branch Website Contest IEEE Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award 9/21/201513

14. Contact Us Email: r8sac@ieee.org 9/21/201514

15. IEEE EPICS Engineering projects for social development University students + High school students + NGO We provide seed money! UK Project: F1 student car improvement, Brunel University and Slough & Eton College. 9/21/201515

16. IEEE EPICS Sample Projects Namibia Mobile Science lab for High School in Rural Area US $ 5,625, Polytechnic of Namibia Uganda Kyambogo University And Agha Khan Poverty Reduction And Environmental Conservation Through Solar Powered Solutions US $ 5,000, Kyambogo University (KYU) Zambia OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) implementation in Chikankata US $ 5,000, University of Zambia (UNZA) Air-quality microsensors for Earth Observations US $ 9,300, University of Pretoria (UP) 9/21/201516

17. Thank you email: sohaibqamer@ieee.org 9/21/201517