1. Region 4 PACE January 28, 2006 Jim Riess, Region 4 PACE Chair E-mail j.riess@ieee.org j.riess@ieee.org Home Phone (763) 753-0357 Office Phone (651) 254-6875

2. Region 4 PACE Responsibilities –Provide training to new and continuing Section PACE leaders –Promote professional activities and authorize partial funding –Promote attendance to annual leadership workshop Key items in 2005 –Authorized Funding for 9 PACE projects –28 attended Leadership Workshop in 2005

3. Region 4 PACE Summary of PACE Projects: $1,000 Cedar Rapids - Pro-Con $ 500 Missouri Slope – NASA Speaker $ 500 Siouxland – Project Management Workshop $ 500 Cedar Rapids – Engineer’s Week Activities $1,500 Nebraska – Professional Development $2,000 Southeastern Michigan – Robofest $ 300 Missouri Slope – Lecture Series f/students $1,000 Rock River Valley – US First Robotics 933 $ 500 Rock River Valley – US First Robotics 1625

4. Region 4 PACE 2005 PACE Funding IEEE-USA Leadership Workshop $13,338.03 PACE Projects – Region 4 $ 5,800.00 PACE Projects – IEEE-USA $ 2,000.00 Miscellaneous $ 17.29 Total $21,155.32

5. Region 4 PACE 2006 PACE Budget IEEE-USA Leadership Workshop $ 7,500 PACE Projects $ 8,400 Total $15,900

6. Region 4 PACE 2006 – ADDITIONAL TASKS (1)  Request additional Region support for 2007 IEEE-USA Workshop participants.  Send Bi-monthly e-mail to Section & Region leaders with timely PACE information.  Request Section Professional Development Plan to be submitted to Region for review and comment.

7. Region 4 PACE 2006 - ADDITIONAL TASKS (2)  Encourage each Section to have at least one pre-college competition in 2006.  Encourage each Section to use one of the presentations on the PACE CD at Section meetings.  Request creation of a “PACE BLOG” where Sections can share lessons learned and PACE success stories.

8. Region 4 PACE 2006 - ADDITIONAL TASKS (3)  Request that information about what PACE is, its mission statement, and criteria for funding be put on the Region web site.  Request previous PACE project reports be put on the Region web site.  Request PACE CD to be put on the Region web site.