Here’s some last-minute information about the meeting this weekend, including:

  • a preliminary schedule,
  • details about the group dinner on Friday evening,
  • Saturday shuttle information, and
  • information about the student cybersecurity competition.

Preliminary schedule. Like any good area meeting, this is subject to change up until the very end of the meeting!

Section Track Student Track
8:30 Intro, Region Director presentation
(MEC 106)
9:30 Rising Stars, Region Conferences, Online Career Expo
(MEC 106)
9:45 Break
10:00 SC update, Region budget
(MEC 307)		 Student Training
(MEC 309)
10:30 YP, PACE
(MEC 307)
11:00 VR/AR Technical Talk
(MEC 106)
12:00 Lunch
(Student Union Bldg cafeteria)
1:00 Section Reports
(MEC 307)		 Student Training
(MEC 309)
1:45 Area breakout sessions
(MEC 301, MEC 307)
2:45 Break
(MEC 3rd floor)
3:00 Section Vitality
(MEC 307)		 Cybersecurity Competition
(MEC 309)
3:45 Wrap-Up
(MEC 307)
4:00 Done

Meeting location: Micron Engineering Building (MEC), 1020 S. Manitou Ave, Boise State University

Friday Evening Group Dinner:

Leku Ona (http://www.lekuonaid.com/), reservations at 7pm. Located in the Basque Block in the heart of downtown Boise. Family style traditional Basque dinner in a private banquet room. Idaho is home to one of the largest populations of Basques outside of Spain. Meet in the Holiday Inn lobby between 6:30pm and 6:40pm if you need a ride (or can provide a ride) to the restaurant.

If you have changed your plans on attending the group dinner since you registered, please let me know so I can update the head count at the restaurant.

Saturday Shuttles:

Meet in the Holiday Inn lobby by 8:00am if you need a ride (or can provide a ride) to campus. We’ll have local volunteers providing rides. If you decide to walk instead, the MEC building is about a 20-minute walk from the Holiday Inn.

The Holiday Inn shuttle also goes to Boise State but is subject to availability.

We’ll also provide transportation after the meeting Saturday back to the hotel or directly from the campus to the airport.

If you get lost or stranded, call or text Sean Collision at 208-856-0008 or me at 208-484-3564.

Baggage storage: If you plan to go straight to the airport after the meeting without going back to the Holiday Inn, you can store your luggage in Dr. Hao Chen’s office (MEC 202E) or in the department office.

Student Cybersecurity Competition:

The competition consists of a cybersecurity puzzle that can be solved in under an hour by a very skilled programmer having a good day. There will be “geek gifts” awarded to those who solve the puzzle first.

Remote students can compete too! Student branch members and advisors — pass along the word to your student branches.

The competition will start at 3pm on Saturday. Visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47615 for more details and to register to compete.