The monthly report summarizes the activities of the University of Rhode Island chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers for January 2016. Key events included general body meetings, an executive board meeting, and continued outreach to local high schools. The chapter also worked on recruitment, communicated with other chapters, and encouraged members to submit academic records for scholarships. One member, Albert Kyei-Poakwa, was recognized for his contributions as the new Academic Excellence officer.

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Chapter Monthly Report
Region I
2015-2016
Chapter: University of Rhode Island
Month: January

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2015 - 2016 Region I Chapter Monthly Report
Preface
This document will serve as the primary reporting system for the chapters in Region 1 to
the Regional 1 Executive Board of the National Society of Black Engineers. The completion
and content of this document will be heavily considered in the nomination process for
Zone, Regional and National awards, as well as, chapter relief funding from Region 1. When
completing this document, it is important that the information included or ​attached​ is
relevant, thorough and succinct.
Deadline
This document and ​additional attachments​ are to be submitted by the 5​th​
of every month
at 11:59 PM during the 2015-16 academic year to the appropriate Zone Chair.

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National Direction
National Directives & Initiatives are the areas of focus set by the National Executive Board and
should be followed by the membership as a whole.
1. National Directives
a. Academic & Technical Success
2. National Initiative
a. Membership Integration
Regional Direction
Regional Directives & Initiatives are the areas of focus set by the Regional Executive Board and
should be followed the membership of that region, respectively.
1. Regional Directives
a. Academic & Technical Success
b. Culturally Responsible Behavior
2. Regional Initiative
a. Membership Integration
Chapter Goals
Please list your chapter goals for the year. All goals should fall in line with the Regional and/or
National Directives.
Goal 1: Have a 70% retention rate by the end of the year.
Goal 2: Win an award at the National Conference.
Goal 3: Send in 90% of the chapter GPA’s
Goal 4: Establish a stronger connection to our NSBE JR. chapter and bring them to Nationals
Goal 5: Bring 90% of our chapter to the National Conference.

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Chapter Association
Please list all chapters that you commonly work/communicate with as well as you local TORCH
Center location.
Associated NSBE Jr. Chapter/school: DelSesto Middle School
Associated Technical Professional Chapter: n/a
TORCH Center Location: n/a
Events
Executive Board Meetings
Please list all Chapter Executive Board Meetings held in the past month. Be sure to state the major
topics of discussion for each meeting. You may attach any minutes (as PDF’s) recorded from your
meetings.
Meeting #9 - 1/29/2016
Was the chapter advisor present? No
Key topics: Updates from e-board
● Laid out new plan for Spring Semester
● Planned out meetings for the entire semester
● Established NSBE committees within the chapter
● Reviewed what the Eboard should be working on for the next week
General Body Meetings (GBM)
Please list all general body meetings has your chapter held in the past month? Please include the
number of attendants, the topic and a brief description of each meeting below.
GBM #7 - 11/4/2015
Attendance
NSBE Jr. Professionals Collegiate Non Member Total
33 33
GBM Description: Announcements about;
Ice Skating Event​ with SWE,
NSBE Lock-in​ featuring bonding Events and Free Food Planned by our Program Chair,
Stephaye Dinz
APEX Verifications​: Reminded our chapter about the GPA benefits

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Smiles URI​: Told our GB to attend events where middle and high school students come to
visit URI, attended by our NSBE chapter every year.
Reveal outline​ for the upcoming month, such as a meeting about Black History Month,
Guest Speaker, and a real talk about Engineering.
Starting NSBE Committee Program​ where every GB members join a committee, the
committees are Financials, Torch, Programs, Telecommunication, and Pre-College .
Region 1 Helpdesk
Please list any problems you have encountered regarding the areas listed below. This section can
also be used to voice any comments, questions or concerns.
Chapter Executive Board
● N/A
Membership
● I have found no problems regarding membership and recruitments.
Communications
● There have been no problems with fundraising this month and as far as support of
sponsorship we are working on this the the upcoming months.
PCI
● N/A
Finance
● Have filled out the 501 c 3 form and are waiting for a response.

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Programs
● I have not encountered any issues regarding programs and/ or events in my
chapter.
Miscellaneous
● N/A
Region 1 Check-in
Please complete all of the sections below in their entirety, as this will be your primary way of
reporting your progress as a chapter to the Regional Executive Board, collectively.
Regional & National Leadership Activity
1. Please list any contact your chapter has had with other members of the
Zone/Regional/National Executive Boards or World Headquarters this month? Please
include whom you were in contact with and the purpose for communication. ​We have been
keeping in contact with the executive board through the region 1 GroupMe and other
social media. We’ve also contacted the zone chair about future plans for the chapter
and fundraising ideas.
2. Has your chapter had communication with another NSBE chapter in the society? If yes, please
list the chapter(s) you communicated with and the purpose for communication. ​Our chapter
released a music video that was seen by all the chapters in our region and also by other
regions. It was a big hit and we’ve had an outpouring of support from around NSBE.
3. Please describe any Leadership Initiative involving general members. Some examples of this
are shadow initiatives and committees for event planning. ​Our general members have
stepped up and joined NSBE committees to help strengthen our overall membership.
4. Please list any work or activities done by your chapter this month that exemplifies the Zone
or Regional visions and goals. ​Our chapter has been promoting the National conference
and registration, which falls in line with Membership integration.

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Membership
1. List any membership recruitment initiatives held this past month and describe their
effectiveness (i.e. how many members recruited, how many members registered on IMAPK,
etc.). ​The NSBE music video have seem to recruited an outstanding ten new members
to our recent GBM. They will soon be official members of NSBE once they have pay for
their membership fee. We hope to see more members arise as the video continues to
spread. Our monthly Professional Wednesday's event has continue to have peers
asking, “Why you dress up for?”, in which our members respond with “For NSBE.”. By
continuing to do this on the first wednesday of the Month we are spreading NSBE’s
name all over campus.
2. Has your chapter implemented any initiatives to track academic, professional and leadership
development? ​Our Academic Excellence has continue to do a great job but checking up
on the first years and seconds year's students by seeing if they need resources such as
textbooks or tutoring for classes. Our E-Board continue to send out information
regarding internship opportunities and advice on professional situations such as the
benefits of having a interview on an earlier date than late. As for leadership, with the
new committee program in place we hope that it will give our GB members a taste what
it means to be on E-Board so we can have members ready to replace our current Senior
E-Board members who are leaving this year.
Communications
1. Please list all pertinent emails sent to your general body. Be sure to include the subject and a
description of the content. ​We send emails every week before the meetings detailing
critical information and where the meeting will be. Some of these include:
a. General body location/times - An email letting the general body know where
and when our meetings are held.
b. APEX Verifications​ - Reminding our members to submitted their GPAs on the
NSBE national website.
c. NSBE Music Video- This email presented our official NSBE Music Video youtube
for our members to share with their peers and family in hope to spread
awareness and recruit new members.
2. Has your chapter been highlighted in any publications or received any awards in the previous
month? Please include a brief description of the publication, attach the relevant articles or the
hyperlink. ​N/A

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Finance
1. Please list any company or group that has sponsored or financially supported of your chapter.
No companies or groups have sponsored or financially supported our chapter this month.
However our Treasurer plan on talking to department head, Dr. Richard Brown next
Monday in hope of a earning his financial support.
2. Please list any fundraising initiatives your chapter has held in the previous month. For each
fundraising initiative list the amount of money raised. - ​Two months ago our fundraising
initiative was “Cookie Dough Fundraiser” and raised $195. As the semester started last
week for URI we have not been able to do a fundraiser.
Programs
Academic Excellence
1. Has your chapter encouraged members to submit their transcript to World Headquarters? If
yes, please explain. Submissions can be by emailing transcripts to ​scholarships@nsbe.org
We talked to our Advisor to have to help verify GPAs as our GB members submitted
on their NSBE page. We hope to have GB members verify their GPAs soon.
2. Has your chapter encouraged participation in regional/national scholarships? If yes, please
explain. For List of National/Regional Scholarships ​Click Here
Our chapter has encouraged the participation of other scholarship not only regional
and national scholarships. Students are aware of the scholarship that are on the
website. We send emails and GroupMe message regularly regarding new scholarship
opportunities.
3. Has your chapter encouraged participation in National/Regional competitions? If yes, please
explain. For list of National/Regional competitions ​Click Here
O​ur chapter are waiting for on more National competitions to be announced. Our GB
members are excited to compete in the Hack-a-thon that will be hosted during Nationals.

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Pre-College Initiative
1. If your chapter does not mentor a NSBE Jr. Chapter, do you intend to help charter one? If yes,
please identify a local school to work with and discuss any steps taken in the past month to
help one.
These are pictures from our mentoring at the MET High school in providence.
The University of Rhode Island College of Engineering, has partnered up with the MET high
school in Providence to start a mentoring program guided by URI NSBE. We currently have
18 registered NSBE Jr. members. On Mondays, members from the URI NSBE chapter goes to
MET where we mentor the students, teach them about STEM and help them with academic
help. We are currently working on simulating real world application (i.e traffic light, clock,
calculators and more) using Arduino microcontrollers provided by the URI College of
Engineering.
Our PCI Chair Goal for the end of this school year is to have our PCI members attend the
National Convention at Boston. Our PCI chair and Assistant PCI chair are working with our
Dean in hope to bring them to Nationals. They are currently working on getting different
kits to work with the PCI chapter.
Technical Outreach and Community Help (TORCH)
1. What TORCH initiatives and events has your chapter done this month? For information on
TORCH ​Click Here
Our Torch Chair working on video for Black History month showing Black Excellence,
there’s is also a planned Soup kitchen visit next Saturday as our first community service
event of the Semester.

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2. Has your chapter participated in any other part of the TORCH program (Technical Expertise
OR Informal Science and Engineering)? If yes, please explain.
We plan on having a clean up for the ECC (Engineering Computer Center) as our first
college Service event in the future.
Ad-hoc Committees
Ad-hoc Committees are special committees formed to handle special tasks, initiatives or events. An
example of this is a National Convention Accommodations Planning Committee.
1. Does your chapter have any Ad-hoc Committees? If so, please list them below.
We do not have any Ad-hoc committees however we have recently appointed
Ahmaad Randall as Swing Chair, his task is to assist in planning and maintaining
Treasurer, Programs events and to help other committees when needed. Our PCI Chair has
also completely rework our chapter website over vacation and beginning to train people
to manage the website as he is graduating this semester.
Member of the Month
Name: Albert Kyei-Poakwa
Position (if applicable): Academic Excellence
Geographic Zone: New England Zone
1. How has individual contributed to your chapter or the organization as a whole?
Albert has join Eboard to fill in empty spots that was left after winter break.
With his help we expect to continue to go in the right direction without
setbacks.
2. How has their outstanding work helped fulfill Regional Directives?
He has fulfilled the directive of Academic success by earning himself a GPA
that is over a 3.0 during his first semester, a task that not many student can
do. We as an E-Board believe that this along and eagerness to help out with
NSBE events make him more than worthy of the position of Academic
Excellence so can learn his knowledge of study tips and trick with other 1st
years.

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3. Please submit a business professional photo (.jpg) of the member to be included in the
Regional eNews should the member win the award.
4. Please provide any additional information.