Leadership

Newly Elected National Council

May 1 2017

Congratulations to the newly elected members of the SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma National Council

SPS Zone 1 Spring Meeting

The University of Maine will host the 2017 Zone 1 Spring Meeting in Orono, Maine.

Zone 9 Spring 2017 Meeting

The theme will be Engineering Astronomy, the Technology of Observing.

Planned events include a Friday-night social, an amazing invited speaker, student research presentations, space-station tracking, and solar-viewer construction.

SPS Zone 4 Meeting

Friday, April 14, 2017

Evening - Informal Particle Fever viewing (Optional)

Saturday April 15, 2017

8:30 AM - Breakfast at Bodo’s

10:00-10:30AM - Welcome from AZC Gage DeZoort and ZC Peter Sheldon 

10:30-10:45AM - Coffee and Webinar Setup

10:45 - 12PM - Webinar led by Kerry Kidwell-Slak, Assistant Director, SPS & Sigma Pi Sigma

          — Presentation about National SPS

          — Discussion about our Zone’s chapter activities

12:00 - 12:45PM - Catered lunch

SPS Zone 3 Spring Meeting

The SPS Chapter at Swarthmore College will host the Zone 3 Spring Meeting on Saturday, April 8.

SPS Zone 10 Spring Meeting

Zone 10 will have its 2017 Spring Meeting March 31-April 1st at Henderson State University.

An Outreach Adventure

A successful event that didn’t go as planned

SPS Zone 8 Spring Meeting

The Millikin University Chapter of SPS will be hosting an SPS Zone 8 Meeting that contains students presentations, poster presentations, viewing of the night sky through numerous large telescopes and a talk by Dr. Robert Arn (astrophotographer). We encourage everyone to attend and look forward to meeting everyone!

SPS Zone 11 Spring Meeting

Coe College in Cedar Rapids is hosting the zone 11 meeting March 17-19, 2017.

Jim Gates will be the plenary speaker!

We plan to have student posters and talks, a tour of Rockwell-Collins avionics, and demos.

Dr. Blane Baker

Dr. Blane Baker

William Jewell College

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