BAY CHAPTER - 05/08/2020
The chapter's Young AFCEANs team together to provide meals to recently graduated airmen on Tyndall Air Force Base. The airmen are under restrictions due to the efforts to prevent the spread or exposure to COVID-19.
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BAY CHAPTER - 02/11/2019
The 325th Communications Squadron pulls and splices new cable in an effort to replace and relocate a damaged core network node post Hurricane Michael. Key members of the chapter's team were on the scene in the trenches helping to make sure it was a success!
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BAY CHAPTER - 06/02/2015
In June, the chapter proudly hosted a technology expo with many of the information technology industry's leading companies at Tyndall Air Force Base, near Panama City, Florida. More than 30 exhibitors were on site for the event, which in turn generated the highest attendance in eight years. Lt. Gen. William H. Etter, USAF, commander, Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region–1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern), formally kicked off the event with opening remarks.
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BAY CHAPTER - 12/18/2013
In December, Lt. Col. Basil Badley, USAF, chapter president, presented a grant in the amount of $1,000 to Florence Lindsay from Mosley High School in Panama City, Florida. Lindsey is this year's recipient of the AFCEA Science Teaching Tools grant. She works with the Engineering Program as well as preparing students to be college and career bound through programs like Gold Seal Scholarship through the Career Technical Education Program at Mosley High School. This grant will better equip her with the means to purchase items to augment science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities in her classrooms such as lab supplies, hardware, software, SMART boards, projectors or other equipment. Grants can also be used to fund extra-curricular activities sponsored by STEM teachers such as robotics or math clubs and For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) competitions.
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BAY CHAPTER - 09/11/2012
Education is key—tomorrow's promises are carried on the shoulders of today's teachers. To support education, Lt. Col. Wayne Wisneski, USAF, chapter president, presented a grant in the amount of $1,000 to Morgan Sansbury from Bay High School in Panama City, Florida, in September. Sansbury is this year's recipient of the AFCEA Science Teaching Tools grant. She teaches Geometry, Honors Geometry and Advanced International Certificate of Education Thinking Skills at Bay High School. The purpose of Science Teaching Tools is to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers with funding for items or activities to enhance methods toward student learning. This grant will better equip Sansbury with the means to purchase items to augment STEM activities in her classrooms such as lab supplies, hardware, software, SMART boards, projectors or other equipment. Grants also can be used to fund extracurricular activities sponsored by STEM teachers such as robotics or math cl ... READ MORE
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BAY CHAPTER - 02/24/2010
Dr. Ronald Ross, senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was the keynote speaker for a special February chapter luncheon. The luncheon served as the cornerstone event during the first annual SecureInfo Corporation Information Assurance Training Workshop held at the Bay Point Marriott Resort. Ross spoke on the upcoming changes to the federal government's increasingly visible cybersecurity and certification and accreditation processes. His discussion included information on the transformation of security activities that include the U.S. Defense Department and the intelligence community. Representing the chapter at the lunch was Lt. Col. David Wiley, USAF, acting chapter president, who accepted a corporate sponsor donation for the chapter educational foundation from Kelley Crooks, senior director at SecureInfo Corporation.
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