Region 6 SAC Presentation made by the Student Activities Representative.

1. IEEE Region 6
Student Activities
Mohamed A Osman
Region 6 SAC
• 76 STUDENT BRANCHES
• TWO NEWLY APPROVED STUDENT
BRANCHES IN 2009.
• MORE THAN 4000 STUDENT MEMBERS
•Most in Region 1­>6
• DIVERSE GEOGRAPHICAL REGION
• Micromouse Competition (UCSD)
• IEEE Boy Scout Merit Badge day (UCR)
• Teaching The Community (UC
John Torous: Student Representative
Berkeley) Leonard Bond: Region Director
• Entrepreneurial Workshops (Stanford)
• First Lego League Mentoring (MSU)

2. Micromouse Competition
• Autonomous robots compete
to:
– Solve and run a maze in the
shortest time.
• Students learn about MCU’s
sensors, programming, and
team work.
• Student groups build their own
micromouses subject to contest
rules.
• Sectional, regional and national
competitions

3. Region 6 Micromouse Competitions
• Central Region: UC Santa Cruiz March 2009
• Southwest Area: UC San Diego, April 2009
– SAC provided support for maze construction
– Several teams competed
– UCSD competed with improved micromouse
design:
2009 design
2008 design UCSD Team members
Source: http://ieee.ucsd.edu/files/micromouse­poster.png

4. UCSD: Southwest Area 2009 Micromouse Competition
• Held at UCSD hosted by San Diego
Section and UCSD Student Branch

5. Outreach Activities
IEEE Boy Scout Merit Badge Day (UCR)
• UCR Student Branch: IEEE Boy Scout Merit badge Day (March 2009):
– Targets Boy Scouts wanting to learn about electronics, electrical
engineering, robotics and more.
– One day workshop with several sessions for different merit badges
(Computers, Electricity, Electronics, Engineering, and Energy) .
– Up to 150 Boy scouts and their counselors

6. UCR: IEEE Boy Scout Merit badge Day
Computer merit badge Electronics merit badge

7. UC Berkeley: Teaching The
Community Electronics
Students Build Circuits
High School (and younger) Students Introduced to EE

8. Stanford IEEE
• Also one of the largest
student branches.
• Hosts numerous
entrepreneurial
workshops to show
IEEE members how to
take lessons from the
classroom into the
business world.

9. MSU: First Lego League Mentoring