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President's Message - February 2013

Howdy!! I want to thank all the volunteers who gave up most of their Saturday a few weekends ago to be judges for the Future Cities Competition held at UTA. If you have not had the opportunity to be a judge in this competition, please consider doing so next year. It is truly mind blowing to see what these kids can come up with. A lot of these kids may go on to become civil engineers because of the experiences they have in Future Cities. This is one of the best ways to mold and shape our future engineers. Big thanks also to Cissy Sylo for organizing and promoting this activity for many years. If you missed out on this judging opportunity, there are two more chances to volunteer with upcoming MathCounts competitions.

I was able to attend the first big kick off event for the Centennial Celebration at the Texas Section Infrastructure Report Card Event & Day at the Capitol. It was my first time in the State Capitol Building and I was amazed how accessible our legislators were. They really seemed to take the time to read and understand the infrastructure report carddeveloped by the Texas Section. Afterwards at the reception, I was able to sit down over a “beverage” and discuss numerous issues with Rep. Bill Callegari, P.E. and Rep. Wayne Smith, P.E.

The next monthly centennial webinar is set for February 12 at noon. The title of this webinar is “Discovering STEM Volunteer Opportunities”. We have also been working on obtaining Centennial Proclamations from many of our local Dallas area cities and counties. Take a look at the proclamations we have received so far.