this month

 

SAME Pensacola Post General Meeting

This month our General Membership and Business Meeting will be held Thursday, January 15th. At this meeting CAPT Jackson, the Post President will comment on the State of the Post. In addition the newly elected Post Officers will be installed by Col. Hoarn, the SAME south central region VP. Lastly, the new upcoming Post President will be giving a short brief on her objectives for the upcoming year. We will also be given a short presentation by the University of Florida SWE Chapter on the SWE National Conference which our Post helped to send them to. Lunch is a flat $10.00 as usual and the meeting will be held at 1130 at the Mustin Beach Officers' Club aboard NAS Pensacola.

upcoming events and presentations

E-Week

Date: February 4, 2010

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E-Week is approaching fast!   This year's E-Week Banquet will be held on 4
February at the UWF Conference Center.  The evening's events start at 6:00
p.m.  Our guest speaker will be Dr. Ken Ford, Director, Institute of Human &
Machine Cognition and Chairman, NASA Advisory Council.  Attire for the
evening is casual; all attendees are requested to wear their favorite
school's colors.  This year we are pleased to hold our banquet in
conjunction with UWF ribbon-cutting celebrations for their new School of
Science and Engineering Building; those celebrations will be held 3-5
February.

 

As in year's past, our focus is to help grade school and high school
students discover the exciting worlds of engineering and technology by
relating practical applications of math, science, and engineering to the
world around them.  Participation by local engineers and engineering firms
will greatly assist in this mentoring effort.

 

Cost for this event is $40 per person.  For your convenience, payment may be
made by credit card through our website at
http://uwf.edu/computerscience/eweek2010.cfm.  For cash or check payments,
or if you have any questions, please send us an e-mail to
Pensacola.eweek@gmail.com.  We ask that all interested attendees please
sign-up by 29 January.

 

Thank you for your support of E-Week, local students, and the engineering
profession.

 

2009 SAME Golf Tournament

Date: October 23rd, 2009
The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Pensacola Post is pleased to announce its annual golf tournament fundraiser. This year’s tournament will be held Friday, October 23rd at the A.C. Read Golf Course on Naval Air Station Pensacola.
-2009 SAME Golf Tournament Invite
-2009 SAME Golf Tournament Flyer

Design Build Workshop

Date: January 21-23, 2009
The Post is hosting a DOD Design Build Workshop in Fort Walton Beach at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort
-Information available at http://www.same.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3884
-Registration is now open at http://www.regonline.com/checkin.asp

 

Post Meeting at the Mustin Beach Officers Club

Date: February 19, 2009
Presentation by NAVFAC SE Headquarters on, “The State of NAVFAC SE”

 

March 2009 Post Meeting

Post Meeting will be held at the University of West Florida for presentations from their science and technologies programs. 

 

past months

 

		On September 24th we held our Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament in which we raised more than $7500 for our scholarship and mentoring fund. The weather was beautiful and everyone commented on a well organized and run tournament. A big thanks goes out to the 19 sponsors and 17 teams that supported us and made this such a great event, because of your support the SAME Pensacola Post continues to provide scholarships and endowments to the local community. Thank you!!!
		On November 20th the Post participated in a Habitat for Humanity rehab clean up. We prepared a habitat house for reoccupancy, previously built 3 years ago. A needy family will be able to move in very early next year; a great Christmas gift. “Making a difference, one family at a time…”
		On June 12th at our SAME luncheon Jonathon Moore was presented with a check for $1000.00. He is a junior at the University of West Florida, majoring in Construction Technology and is also a former Marine and Iraq War Veteran. Jonathon is one of two of our scholarship winners this year. Congratulations Jonathon and thank you for your service.
		The Post sent two representatives to the SAME Joint Engineer Training Conference at Minneapolis the week of 19 May. The conference addressed Contingency Engineering, Installation Management, Design and Construction, Water Resources and Professional Development. The Expo included networking areas, product demonstrations and information booths on the numerous products and services that help the A/E/C community work efficiently and effectively. Our Post received the 2007 Membership Streamer. LT John Jeffrey and LTJG Dane Elles gave a presentation on their experience and tried to relay a lot of what National is trying to accomplish through all the posts.
SAME Pensacola Post Secretary received the National 2007 Membership Streamer Award on behalf of the post.		All of the presentations that were given at the conference can be found for at the National website. http://www.same-2008.org/_presentations/presentations.htm
		Del Sherburne received the Peter K. Wallek endowment established at Pensacola Junior College from the Pensacola Post 1st Vice-President, LCDR Nate Price, at the 17 July Post meeting. Del is studying engineering technologies and is a volunteer firefighter.
		On July 17th Eleni Weisnicht of Gulf Breeze High School was presented a check for $1000 from the Pensacola Post 1st Vice-President, LCDR Nate Price. She will be attending the University of Colorado and plans to study Biological and Chemical Engineering. Eleni is one of two of our scholarship winners this year.
		On July 17th, Col. Steve Hoarn, the SAME South Central Region Vice-President, attended the Post’s monthly meeting. During the meeting, Col Hoarn presented the Pensacola Post Treasurer, Christine Buziak, the Vice President’s Medal for her dedicated and distinguished support to the Post as Treasurer over the past 5+ years.
		The Pensacola Post sponsored four students to attend the Secondary Robotics Camp at the University of West Florida. The camp mission is to inspire middle and high school students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participation in a sports-like, science and engineering-based robotics competition each fall.

 

mission and post overview

The mission of the Society of American Military Engineers is to promote and facilitate engineering support for national security by developing and enhancing relationships and competencies among uniformed services, public and private sector engineers, and related professionals.

The Pensacola Post of SAME includes over 100 military and civilian members and 11 sustaining member firms from the Florida Gulf Coast. Luncheon meetings are normally held on the Thursday of the fourth week of each month at the Officers Club at NAS Pensacola. Guests are always welcome to attend. We invite you to browse our website for further information on our programs and people.

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