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2014-2015 SPIE Student Chapter Report
Submitted by the UTM SPIE Student Chapter, located at the Technological University of the Mixteca, to SPIE as part of the reporting requirements as an SPIE Student Chapter.
Prepared by:
Cornelio H. Silva López
President
Rafael Velásquez López
Secretary
Submitted to SPIE on August 4, 2015
Technological University of the Mixteca
Carretera a Acatlima 2.5 km
Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, C.P. 69000
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Contents 1. Introduction to the UTM SPIE Student Chapter .......................................................................... 3
2. Student Members ....................................................................................................................... 4
2.1. List of Officers for 2014-2015 .............................................................................................. 4
2.2. SPIE Members ..................................................................................................................... 4
3. Academics activities .................................................................................................................... 5
3.1. First National Week of Physical Engineering ....................................................................... 5
3.2. Conference given by Vanesa Valadez Durán. Student Chapter Officer from the Center for
Research in Optics (CIO), Guanajuato. ............................................................................................ 5
4. Social activities ............................................................................................................................ 6
5. Outreach ...................................................................................................................................... 7
5.1. Children's Day, Acatlima 2014. ............................................................................................ 7
5.2. University Christmas Parade, 2014. .................................................................................... 7
5.3. Children's Day, Huajuapan de León 2015. .......................................................................... 8
5.4. Demonstration of experiments in Acatlima, San Pedro Yodoyuxi, Santos Reyes Yucuná,
Ahuehutitlán de González, Cuititó y Huajolotitlan, Huajuapan de Léon, Oaxaca, .......................... 9
6. Financial Summary .................................................................................................................... 10
7. Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 11
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1. Introduction to the UTM SPIE Student Chapter
The Student Chapter at the Technological University of the Mixteca, was established
on the 5th of May, 2014, as a student club for both graduate and undergraduate
students. UTM SPIE Student Chapter is a student chapter of the International
Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE). We celebrated our first anniversary this
year as an SPIE Student Chapter. Below the mission that identifies our chapter
“The UTM SPIE Student Chapter aims to arouse interest in optics and sciences
among the student community of our university, to disseminate scientific activities in
our state, to encourage the study of optics and sciences in the general population
and to improve the academic life of the student members.”
To fulfill this mission, we have divided our activities into three groups: academic
activities, social activities and outreach. In each of them we performed various
events to meet the goals set at the beginning of the year. These three areas of focus
will also guide the outline of this report.
1. Academic activities: in this section we will talk about conferences that have
been offered to the students in order to increase their scientific knowledge.
2. Social activities: social activities list the events and meetings that we have
had as a student chapter, the official presentation of the new Student Chapter
Officers, pizza nights and meetings with snacks.
3. Outreach: These activities are the most important for the Student Chapter,
because we focus on working with underprivileged children, we travel to
marginalized and remote communities of the state carrying a series of events
for children to learn about sciences so they could be interested in the study of
physical phenomena that occur around.
The report will list the officers for the 2014-2015 Academic year, it also gives the
roster of members. A financial summary of the year is given. Finally, conclusions
are presented.
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2. Student Members
2.1. List of Officers for 2014-2015
Table 1 below includes the full list of officers for the 2014-2015 Academic Year.
Table 1: 2014-2015 UTM SPIE Student Chapter officers.
Position Name e-mail address
President Cornelio H. Silva López [email protected]
Secretary Rafael Velásquez López [email protected]
Faculty advisor Agustin Santiago Alvarado [email protected]
2.2. SPIE Members
Tabla 2: UTM SPIE Studen Chapter memebers.
Name Expires Name Expires
Italivy Acosta Valdez 03/24/2016 José Luis García 10/06/2015
Guillermo Barragán Medina 05/07/2016 Zenón Belarmino Martinez Cruz 06/09/2016
Jessica Castañeda Santos 10/16/2015 Bibiana Martinez Rios 05/06/2016
Jeny Elizabeth Chávez Martinez 05/07/2016 Dalia Elizabeth Pérez Jacabo 05/07/2016
Omar Gómez González 05/06/2016 Jocelyn Pérez Rojas 10/29/2015
Andrea Hernández García 05/10/2016 Yara Pérez Maldonado 05/06/2016
Arturo Hernández Méndez 03/20/2016 José Alberto Pérez Ramírez 06/09/2016
María Isabel Hernández Rios 05/06/2016 Emilio Rafael Reyes Pérez 05/07/2016
Belén Hernández Villalba 05/07/2016 Erick Rodríguez Hernández 05/06/2016
Nadia Jiménez Barriga 05/06/2016 Alexis Sernas Vásquez 05/10/2016
Miroslava Leyva Pacheco 05/06/2016 Rafael Velásquez López 06/09/2016
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3. Academics activities
3.1. First National Week of Physical Engineering
This was the official presentation of the Student Chapter in our University as an
outreach club. We had the opportunity to present a series of science experiments to
about 500 high school and middle school students. Also, some of the student
members were able to help with the logistic of the overall event.
3.2. Conference given by Vanesa Valadez Durán. Student Chapter
Officer from the Center for Research in Optics (CIO), Guanajuato.
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Miss Vanesa could talk us about her work as a PhD student from one of the most
important research centers for optics in Mexico. She also shared with us their
experiences as one of the firsts Student Chapters ever stablished in the country. The
things we learnt we could easily applied to our Chapter dynamics.
4. Social activities
As a student group we had the opportunity to gather us together and socialize in
several occasions. We have had pizza nights and meetings with snacks.
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5. Outreach
5.1. Children's Day, Acatlima 2014.
We celebrated children’s day in the town of Acatlima by presenting physics
experiments and interactive activities to the children of the community. We
motivated children’s participation with some presents related with science. It was a
joint participation by coordinating the activity with the group ENACTUS from our
University. We had the participation from about 150 children.
5.2. University Christmas Parade, 2014.
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As a part of the tradition, every year we have a Christmas parade from our
University to downtown; for this occasion student chapter members participated by
making and launching to the sky cantoya’s balloons in the middle of the parade.
5.3. Children's Day, Huajuapan de León 2015.
Once more, our Student Chapter had a joint participation with the Institute of
Physics and Mathematics from our University in the celebration of Children’s day in
the city of Huajuapan de Leon. Optics and physics experiments were presented to
approximately 700 children.
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5.4. Demonstration of experiments in Acatlima, San Pedro Yodoyuxi,
Santos Reyes Yucuná, Ahuehutitlán de González, Cuititó y
Huajolotitlan, Huajuapan de Léon, Oaxaca,
Our Student Chapter have prepared a special brigade in a joint coordination with the
ENACTUS group from our University. It mainly consists in to bring science to far
communities of the city of Huajuapan de Leon. We have brought science
experiments demonstrations and several interactive workshops. The duration of the
brigade was two weeks long. The average attendance per community was about 50
children for a total of approximately 300 children for the entire event.
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6. Financial Summary
The following financial summary was prepared by Cornelio H. Silva, the UTM
SPIE Student Chapter President.
Financial Report
Balance (05/05/2014) $0.00
Expenditures
Social
Students Social -$ 200.00
General
Website hosting & domain name -$ 34.50
SPIE Student Chapter shirts -$ 103.00
Academic
First week of physical -$ 55.00
Visit of the SPIE official from Optics Research
Center, Guanajuato.
-$ 80.00
Outreach
Children's Day, Acatlima 2014 -$ 46.50
Christmas parade university, 2014 -$ 61.00
Demonstration of experiments in Acatlima
elementary school
-$ 36.00
Children's Day, Huajuapan de León 2015 -$ 53.00
Demonstration of experiments in San Pedro
Yodoyuxi
-$ 39.00
Demonstration of experiments in Santos Reyes
Yucuná
-$ 41.00
Demonstration of experiments in Ahuehuetitlán de
González
-$ 38.00
Demonstration of experiments in Cuititó, Huajuapan
de León.
-$ 40.00
Demonstration of experiments in Huajolotitlán,
Huajuapan de León.
-$ 47.00
Deposits
SPIE grant $ 900.00
Balance 06/22/2015 $26.00
The UTM SPIE Student Chapter pays for the pizza and soda at Community events,
which is why this cost does not appear in the financial summary.
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7. Conclusion
This year the Student Chapter has focused its activities specifically to the academic
growth of its members by providing useful tools; also we are working in the creation
of a network for professional development and adding experience as young
researchers.
We are motivated to continue working in the name of science, especially in the areas
of optics and photonics mainly because several regions in our state are places where
it is very difficult to have access to the message we bear.