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ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR 2015

Author: Anna Sękowska of 6

1. Elected officers for academic year 2015/16:

President: Michał Trojanowski [email protected] SPIE ID: 3463521

Vice President: Agnieszka Szreder [email protected] SPIE ID: 3582641

Wojciech Den [email protected] SPIE ID: 3717989

Treasurer: Aleksandra Wieloszyńska [email protected] SPIE ID: 3583871

Secretary: Anna Sękowska [email protected] SPIE ID: 3724091

Advisor: dr inż. Marcin Strąkowski

2. List of current Student Chapter Members:

Tymon Baran

Agnieszka Dankiewicz

Wojciech Den

Mateusz Feldzensztajn

Mateusz Ficek

Aleksandra Kamińska

Katarzyna Karpienko

Monika Kosowska

Maciej Kraszewski

Dominik Maszczyk

Daria Milewska

Marcin Mrotek

Michalina Rajczyk

Anna Sękowska

Paulina Strakowska

Agnieszka Szreder

Michał Trojanowski

Małgorzata Warecka

Aleksandra Wieloszyńska

Maciej Wróbel

Total of: 20


3. Chapter activities:

Chapter meetings:

As a Student Chapter we are holding meetings twice a month in our room provided by

our Department of Metrology and Optoelectronics or in another room at our Faculty's

building (when there are too many people to fit in). On those meetings we discuss our

current projects. Also more experienced members of our Chapter do workshops on

how to make good oral presentations. Each meeting takes from 45 to 60 minutes.

We also organise cyclical workshops from electronics and optoelectronics. They take

place twice a month alternately with the Chapters' meetings. As a result of such often

meetings we were able to recruit new young members from first year students at our

Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics.

Conferences:

We have attended the OPTO-Meeting for Young Researchers & 10th Anniversary

International SPIE Student Chapter Meeting 2015 in Wrocław. Four members (M.

Trojanowski, A. Szreder, A. Wieloszyńska, A. Kamińska) of our chapter have presented

their work in form of presentation and posters. During conference we were able to

renew our contacts with other chapters from Poland.

Our Vice-President took part in ITMO Student Chapters Leadership Meeting &

International Year of Light Opening Ceremony in Saint-Petersburg on April 1-3. It

enabled him to gain new contacts with chapters from Europe and Asia.

Baltic Science Festival

Every year at Gdańsk University of Technology, which we are part of, is organized a

science festival. Its goal is to show science to young people and encourage them to

study at our university. Our task is to organise events at our department. In this years

edition we made two events. First was a laser obstacle course, where participants had

a small piece of foil that helped them to determine where are laser rays in order to

avoid them and get to our grand prize. They had to get to the prize and grab it

without activating alarm. Second event was our yearly classic called optic shooting

range, where we use specially modified BB-gun (equipped with IR laser) and target

(CCD matrix) to conduct a shooting tournament.


This year we also took part in two another events called: “PG Open” and “Girls to

Technical Universities”. Their goal was to encourage high school students to study

science, preferably at our university.

Workshops for special education high school students:

Our mission was to present the basics of optoelectronics to the special education

students. This year a group of around 20 young people visited our Department and we

showed them few attractive experiments in our laboratory and organised a small

shooting tournament.


Science Festival in Iława - “Picnic of inspiration”


4. Future planned activities:

Our next year plans include organising next OPTO-Meeting for Young

Researchers 2016 in collaboration with other Polish SPIE chapters.

We will help with organising next years edition of Baltic Science Festival with

upgraded laser obstacle course and probably few new events. Of course our

optic shooting range will be one of them. We are also planning to take part in

another science festivals such as “Picnic of inspiration” in Iława.

We are going to continue organising the workshops from electronics and take

part in workshops organised at our University and Department: LabView,

Design Thinking etc.

5. Financial information:

We have used founding from SPIE activity grant to pay for conference in

Wrocław as well as printing posters for our chapter. Also we used them to buy

necessary elements for workshops mentioned before and projects made by

members.

We have used Officer Travel Grant to send Michał Trojanowski to conference

Optics & Photonics 2015 and Student Chapter Leadership Workshop held in San

Diego.

Next year we plan to use Activity Grant for founding chapter projects as well as

for marketing purposes. Also we would like to send one of our officers to a

conference using Officer Travel Grant and we plan on using Visiting Lecturer

grant.


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