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| OKINAWA CHAPTER CHAPTER - Oct 23, 2014 |
3rd Annual TechNet Day Held |
The chapter held its 3rd Annual TechNet Day in October. This year's theme was Joint Information Environment (JIE) and attracted 18 participating vendors, corporate sponsors and nearly 300 attendees throughout the day. Key features of the event included a keynote speaker, STEM Teacher Scholarship presentations, a joint discussion panel, vendor presentations and two buffet meals (breakfast sponsored by Infoblox and lunch sponsored by World Wide Technology Inc.). The chapter gives special thanks to AFCEA International's Member and Chapter Services team for their support. |
Event Photographs: |
 Shuichi Katakura (l), regional sales manager for Japan, The Siemon Company, demonstrates the use of fiber optic products to Lt. Col. Nobuhito Ide, Japan Air Self Defense Force (c), commander, 56th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, Japan Air Self Defense Force. Col. Ide has also become an AFCEA Life Member and was presented his certificate and pin during the October event. |
 Jon Walden (c), 12th grade architecture/engineering/robotics instructor at Kubasaki High School, was one of two $1,000 winners of the chapter's STEM Teacher Scholarship Award Program for 2014-2015. The scholarship, presented in October, will be applied to project DAPPER, Disaster and Pandemic Programmable Emergency Robot, which is developing an autonomous/remote robotic system to search for life forms in disaster affected areas, to monitor the activity and to deliver small supplies. |
 The Joint Information Environment discussion panel held during the October TechNet Day featured (l-r) Vincent Lee, senior systems engineer, Symantec Corporation; Bruce Hidaka-Gordon, information technology chief, Department of Defense Education Activity Pacific; Lt. Col. George E. Noel, USAF, commander, Defense Information Systems Agency-Pacific Okinawa Field Office; panel moderator Col. Loretta L. Vandenberg, USMC, assistant chief of staff G-6, III Marine Expeditionary Force; Maj. Mark M. Landez, USAF, director of operations, 18th Communications Squadron; and Maj. David K. Southerland, USA, S-3 operations officer-in-charge, 78th Signal Battalion, 516th Signal Brigade. |
 In October, Master Gunnery Sgt. Arthur Allen III, USMC, chapter president and communications chief, III Marine Expeditionary Force, presents a Life Member certificate and pin to Col. Vandenberg. |
