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Place Think Award for their Engineering Notebook and understanding of the design process.


• West Ashely HS—The team competed and fi nished in 1st place at the Lowcountry VEX Robotics Challenge on Feb. 21, 2015. They went on to the state event. They are ranked #2 in the state (out of 45 teams).


• The Iron Wolverines of Woodland High School—They competed in the Waterloo Regionals coming in 24th in the qualifi cation rounds, then fi nished 5th out of 27 teams in the Playoffs. The team won the Spirit Award!


Working with kids pays off for our members, too. Lyle Blevins, a member of SME Chapter 430 and DPS Site Lead at DuPont Cooper River, won the 2015 Berkeley Qualifi er First Lego League (FLL) Tournament Coaching Award. He coached the Pro-Grammers, Team 13128, sponsored by DuPont and Dr. Brad Williams of Crowfi eld Dental. The Pro- Grammers won the Core Values Award. They were mentored by Lego First rOhming Robots, coached by Linda Stewart, who is also sponsored by our chapter. Other sponsors in- cluded (BSME), Biggby’s of Goose Creek, and Ray Beradino of Bruster’s. Lyle’s wife, Ana Maria Blevins coached the FLL Project/Research Component. The Pro-Grammers created a Method for Middleschoolers to create Quality Videos. Con- gratulations on a job well done.


As we supported our local middle schools and high schools, we knew we needed to do more. The Chapter reached out to one of the colleges in the state and helped to form the Clemson University SME Student chapter. This chapter currently has 20 members and growing, has toured three manufacturing facilities, and has had speakers from industry talk to their group about careers and manufacturing opportunities. We also formed a partnership with the Low- county Graduate Center to encourage students to consider manufacturing as a career. One exciting thing we did in this partnership is set up live streaming between our Clemson student chapter and the Lowcountry Graduate Center so events could be shared real-time with each other. The chapter always thinks about the community and how we can stay connected. Chapter 430 sits on four high school advisory boards which allows us to better understand their needs but more importantly we can provide input that will help the schools stay connected with the manufacturing in the area. We have set up several tours of manufacturing facilities in the area and have had manufacturing companies provide presentations about manufacturing as a career. On


one occasion we set up a tour of the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology. Fifty-two students attend- ed and the kids did not want to leave. After returning from the tour, a senior high school student asked the school’s guidance counselor for help registering to that school. This shows the success and the need for these types events. The chapter also participated in National Manufacturing Day by providing speakers to three schools to introduce manufactur- ing to nearly 770 students.


Continuing Education, Networking Though important, students are not our only focus. We also continue to develop our senior members as well. In 2014, we held 22 events including tours, presentations, webinars, expos, student competitions, and a golf outing. These events resulted in 525 people participating. So far, we have held 15 events with over 500 people participating this year. Our annual golf event is the only fundraiser we have and the proceeds help sponsor schools. This year we had 68 people participate, including three high schools, many manufacturing compa- nies, and businesses and people from the community. We are proud to report that we raised $8000, which will go a long way toward sponsoring our past schools and potentially some new schools. Because of these types of things we continue to grow each year and maintain current membership along the way. The current members encourage new members as they stress how rewarding it is to be part of a chapter that has a vision and a mission and tries to achieve that each year. Each year we challenge our members and even other chapters to get involved in some way. As the chapter Chair, I challenge them to be better, more engaging, a leader, a source of expertise and mentorship for local youth and a de- sire to excel. I am often asked what will I get for my member- ship dues. I provide a simple answer. What do you want to get for those dues? You can do nothing and receive nothing or you can be active and receive the reward of knowing you have made a difference. The chapter has a responsibility to provide for its members and that is what we do. The member has the responsibility to react and be involved.


Dick Tiano


SME Chapter 430 Chair Senior Program Manager, SCRA Applied R&D Maritime & Manufacturing Technologies Division SME Member since 1986 http://i.sme.org/c430/Home


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