Riverside San Bernardino Section
The Riverside San Bernardino Section (RSBITE) has been a regular contributor to the Student Endowment Fund and has consistently supported efforts in this regard. We feel proud that our chapter is the front runner for the Student Endowment Fund Award this year. Our chapter also encourages student members to participate in monthly lunch sessions and their costs are waived for most lunch sessions. Additionally, once every year we combine our meeting with ITE Southern California Section and hold the monthly program at Cal Poly Pomona. The RSBITE Section also has a tradition of organizing a Vendor Show each year during the month of January. This is a very successful and well attended session with around 30-35 Vendors displaying their products and services. Each year we waive the $400 Booth/Vendor costs for students. Cal Poly Pomona students actively participate in the vendor show, interact with ITE members and use the opportunity to raise funds for their own chapter activities. Our annual golf tournament is also a very successful event and is attended by members from both the private and public sector. The RSBITE Chapter is honored to have the opportunity to contribute to the District’s magnanimous goal of $500,000 for the Student Endowment Fund, and was one of the first sections to donate.
San Francisco Bay Area Section
With over 500 members from 15 counties, the San Francisco Bay Area Section boasts as one of the largest sections in District 6. With a diverse membership the Bay Area Section strives to serve its members with a variety of events, workshops, and social activities. The Bay Area Section hosts monthly luncheon meetings, which showcase presentations from renowned speakers on current hot topics related to transportation planning and engineering. In addition, the technical committee spearheads full-day technical workshops and seminars annually. Over the past year, the technical workshops have included international speakers from Spain and Japan to keep our members updated on the on-going research and newly tested technologies in the field. Meeting announcements, as well as presentations and photos from past meetings and technical programs are regularly posted on the Section’s Website: www.sfbayite.org. The Bay Area Section has been instrumental in encouraging student participation and expanding the student section of ITE over the past few years. Three chairs covering the South Bay, East Bay and Peninsula form the Section’s Student Outreach Committee to plan activities, serve as liaisons and mentor to students. In the last few years, the Student Outreach Committee has also hosted a student-paper competition to issue scholarships to the award recipients. The Bay Area section sponsors students to attend the annual Western ITE meeting and gain exposure to the transportation field. Currently, the section has over 75 student members. This year the Student Paper Contest was replaced by the “mITEy Race” contest to test the wits and transportation savvy of students and professionals alike. Read the papers presented by past scholarship winners and view the results of the 2009 mITEy Race at www.sfbayite.org/students. Information on the upcoming mITEy Race in 2010 can be obtained on Twitter: tweet mITEy2010. The Bay Area Section also collaborates with other professional organizations such as the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), the South Bay Traffic Officials Association (SBTOA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) every year. This section will also be hosting the 2010 ITE Western District Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The Local Arrangement Committee (LAC) has been working exhaustively to coordinate conference and hotel facilities, volunteers, and plan activities such as the 2010 logo competition for this huge event. The latest updates on the 2010 Annual Meeting can be obtained at: www.sfbayite.org/2010.
