The Org Chart

In this issue

Featured Stories

A New Regional Conference ........ 1

Chapter Financial Report ............. 3

Rise of the ISE ............................. 5

Earning Power ............................. 5

Regional Conference Planning .... 6

Regular Features

Our Next Big Chapter Event ........ 1

A Message from the President .... 2

Chapter Leaders and Contacts .... 2

Chapter Membership .................. 2

ISE Education in Kansas ............... 3

Student Chapters ........................ 3

Get to Know ................................ 4

Recent Chapter Events ................ 5

Chapter Standards ...................... 6

Upcoming Chapter Events ........... 6

Analytics About Us ...................... 7

Professional Opportunities ......... 7

About Chapter 56 ........................ 8

Upcoming STEM Events .............. 8

Recent Event Photos ................... 8

A New Regional Conference Our chapter’s recent growth spurt and its return to operational excellence has not gone unnoticed.

Increasingly, IISE Headquarters has recognized the activities taken on by the Greater Wichita Chap-

ter. Features in the Institute’s newsletters and ISE Magazine have let other chapters share in our

best practices and lessons learned. Other chapters have contacted our chapter’s leaders to get infor-

mation about our strategy. The attention has been flattering, humbling, and certainly welcomed.

Especially welcomed has been the attention by the other chapters and the leaders of the South

Central United States Region within IISE. Current Regional Vice President (RVP) Niranjan Kulkarni and

former RVP Brandon Laird have been major catalysts in providing visibility to our chapter and help-

ing to set a direction for our future. They have also challenged us to grow the chapter in both

breadth and depth, teaming with the other chapters in Kansas; namely the Kansas City professional

chapter, and the Wichita State and Kansas State student chapters.

As noted in our Spring edition of The Org Chart, Wichita State is slated to host the 2020 South

Central Regional Conference in early March. This three day conference has long focused on bringing

together students from across the region, primarily for a scholastic paper competition. The chal-

lenge has been made by the RVPs to expand the regional conference as an event for all students and

professional IISE members in our region. After a coordination meeting with officers from the Wichita

State student chapter and several lively discussions, our chapter’s leadership decided in early June

to take on this challenge by planning a parallel professional track for the conference.

With the coming new semester, the plan is for the leaders of our chapter to work with the WSU

student chapter to set a complementary agenda of activities, collaborate with the other Kansas

chapters, and formulate a financial plan for the conference, which includes fundraising events.

Last month, members of the Greater Wichita Chapter were e-mailed about this effort with an invita-

tion to help with various planning activities (See related story Regional Conference Planning on Page

6). Thanks to those that have volunteered to help. If you want to lend you support, please contact

the chapter’s leadership team at iise56@cox.net

Our Next Big Chapter Event Our next big event is a tour of the Wichita's new Mark Arts center. Originally founded as the Wichita

Art Association in 1920, Mark Arts is the area’s oldest and most comprehensive visual arts

organization. For more than 95 years, Mark Arts has made art and arts education available to the

citizens of Wichita and the surrounding communities.

Mark Arts offers a 5,000-square-foot main gallery with annual exhibitions showcasing regional and

national artists. Other exhibition spaces include the youth gallery and School of Creativity Commons.

Event: Tour of the Mark Arts (Mary Koch Arts Center)

Website: http://www.markartsks.com/center-information/

Date/Time: Friday, September 14, 2018 — 3:30PM Place: 1307 N Rock Rd, Wichita, KS 67206

Price: Free for members & guests (limited). RSVP by September 12 to iise56@cox.net

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Summer edition

August 2018

August 2018

Chapter Leaders

President — Dr. John Huffman

Vice-President — Mr. Randall Allenbach

Secretary — Mr. David Logback

Treasurer — Ms. Tina Tomas

Directors:

Membership — Mr. Lloyd Wittman

Events/Activities — Ms. Kelsey Cleaveland

Communications/Media — Mr. Tate Lampe

University Relations — Dr. Deepak Gupta

Board:

Mr. Shawn Chase (Past President)

Mr. Brent Garber

Ms. Kirsten Jensen

Ms. Charity Kennedy

Ms. Virginia Youse

Mr. Joseph Schmidt

A hearty welcome to our new members!

“… combining Industrial Engineering with Systems Engineering broadens the very nature of what our profession and this institute is about”.

A Message from the President

Chapter Membership

Please allow me to make an empathic point here:

My graduate degrees from Wichita State have Industrial Engineering

as the granting discipline, even though my masters program special-

ized in Operations Research and my doctoral plan of study included

just one IE course. I have no formal training in the fundamentals of

Industrial Engineering, yet I am a licensed Professional Engineer in

Industrial Engineering. I am currently very involved in the society

most associated with Industrial Engineering. But I am not an

Industrial Engineer ... never have been, never will be.

I’m a Systems Engineer.

With all due respect to Bard of Avon, there is a lot in a name. We

Systems Engineers have always had an identity crisis due to confu-

sion about the nature of our practice. For example, like many of

you, I work in the airplane building business. There, ‘Systems

Engineering’ traditionally means flight systems, not the discipline of

understanding, designing, and integrating disparate systems. There

are many like me in IISE who are laboring under the banner of

Industrial Engineer, but at best, we are working at its fringe.

When the Institute adopted Systems to its moniker, it may have

exasperated the SE identity crisis. While I personally welcomed

adding Systems to our name (because it makes me feel less of a

charlatan), many looked at this as IEs usurping another profession.

I have been told that SEs don’t feel welcome in the new IISE. That is

unfortunate, because combining Industrial Engineering with

Systems Engineering broadens the very nature of what our profes-

sion and this institute is about. Our historic alignment with manu-

facturing and construction now mirrors our modern efforts in health

care, biomedical engineering, transportation, energy, agriculture,

sports/entertainment, services, technology, information, and other

sectors with which we had only an affiliation in the past. Through

this marriage of disciplines, we are indeed experiencing the Rise of

the Industrial Systems Engineer (see the related story on Page 5).

To all my Systems Engineering colleagues, IISE is

your society! This chapter - while honoring its

legacy - is focused on a future with Industrial

and Systems Engineering as its identity.

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Chapter Contact

email: iise56@cox.net

Phone: (316) 516-2249

Our chapter’s membership profile as of August 1, 2018.

New Member Company

Cole R. Birney (reinstated)

Spirit AeroSystems

Scott K. Heuer Textron Aviation

Harley E. Vasper ESci Compliance Associates

August 2018

Company Members % Members

Spirit AeroSystems 35 46.05%

Textron Aviation 18 23.68%

Wichita State University 10 13.16%

RETIRED 6 7.89%

UNKNOWN 2 2.63%

ESci Compliance Assoc. 1 1.32%

Premier Progressing, LLC. 1 1.32%

Excel Industries 1 1.32%

Center Industries 1 1.32%

Kansas State University 1 1.32%

Grand Total 76 100.00%

Grade Members % Members

Member 60 78.95%

Senior Member 15 19.74%

Fellow 1 1.32%

Grand Total 76 100.00%

Age Group Members % Members

20-29 9 11.84%

30-39 19 25.00%

40-49 20 26.32%

50-59 13 17.11%

60+ 15 19.74%

Grand Total 76 100.00%

Systems Engineer

ISE Education in Kansas

Kansas supports the ISE profession by

readying the next generation of

engineers involved in Industrial,

Systems, Manufacturing, and Engi-

neering Technology through formal

education starting in K-12 programs

and leading to professional degrees

from its leading universities. Primary

among the university programs lead-

ing to ISE related degrees are:

Industrial, Systems, and Manufactur-

ing Engineering at Wichita State

University (WSU).

Engineering Technology at WSU.

Biomedical Engineering at WSU.

Industrial and Manufacturing Sys-

tems Engineering at Kansas State

University (KSU) - Manhattan.

Engineering Technology, Construc-

tion Engineering Technology, and

Computer Systems Technology at

KSU -Manhattan.

Computer Systems Technology at

KSU-Poly — Salina.

Student Chapters

Chapter Leaders for 2018-2019

Kansas State University

President — Ms. Sarah Peterson

Vice-President —

Ms. Madeline Triggs

Admin Assistant —

Ms. Madison Tischhauser

Treasurer — Ms. Kayla Paulson

Advisor — Dr. Margaret Rys

Wichita State University

President — Mr. Josh Kempke

Vice-President —

Ms. Thanushika Rupasinghe

Admin Assistant — Ms. Boluwatife

(Victoria) Kehinde

Treasurer — Mr. Mostafa Hasan

Media — Ms. Esther Daniels

Advisors — Dr. Bayram Yildrim, Dr.

Krishna Krishnan

Chapter Financial Report

Tina Tomas, Treasurer of the Greater Wichita Chapter (56) of IISE recently filed the Chapter Fi-

nancial Report with our Regional Vice-President Niranjan Kulkarni and with IISE Headquarters.

Tina also filed our yearly Not-for-Profit disclosure to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The Finan-

cial Report covers the chapter’s fiscal year from April 01, 2017 to March 31, 2018.

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Chapter 56 Balance Summary April 01, 2017—March 31, 2018

Continued on Page 4

IISE On-Line

The Institute provides many on-line

resources for its members. Please

take the time to explore these web-

sites.

IISE :

http://www.iise.org/Home/

IISE Connect:

https://connect.iise.org/home

IISE on LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/

groups/75670

IISE on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/iisenet/

IISE South Central Region:

http://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?

id=11798

IISE Chapter 56 (Greater Wichita):

http://

iiechapter56greaterwichi-

ta.shutterfly.com

IISE Chapter 56 on Connect:

https://connect.iise.org/

communities/community-home?

CommunityKey=d75200d2-f7b3-

4b4a-ba1c-bfa88b123d7b

IISE Chapter 56 on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/

IIEWichita/

IISE Kansas State University:

http://www.engg.ksu.edu/iie/

Chapter Financial Report Continued from Page 3

Wichita has been blessed with a large number of compa-

nies employing ISEs. Many of the members of the Greater

Wichita Chapter have realized fulfilling careers under the

banner of multiple organizations. One of the most

successful is Mr. Joseph Schmidt.

Raised in Sharon, KS, Joe graduated from high school in a class of ten students that included singer Martina McBride. From there he attended Kansas State University where he joined (then) IIE in 1987 as a student. At KSU he earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. He has remained an avid fan of K-State sports—especially football! In his professional career, Joe has had the rare experience of “completing the cycle” of the major Wichita aviation industry by working at Boeing, Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft, Learjet, and — for the last eight months — Spirit AeroSystems. He also worked for Apex and Excel in Hesston, KS. Through most of his career, Joe has been a Quality Engineer. During his tenure at Textron, he obtained Six Sigma Green Belt status. Currently, Joe is an Industrial Engineer in his position at Spirit. He has also worked in Manufacturing Engineering and has been an MRP Analyst and Scheduler. Among the major efforts Joe has worked on during his career was an SAP implemen-tation and several new model programs while at Cessna. Joe Schmidt has been an active participant in the Greater Wichita Chapter of IISE. His attendance at chapter events is among the most faithful of our members. He especially enjoys the IISE plant tours and the networking opportunities which let him keep in-touch with former co-workers. Joe earned a Professional Engineer license in Kansas. He is also an active member in the American Society for Quality (ASQ), where he is a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and a Certified Quality Auditor (CQA). Joe’s personal ambition is to keep learning. He understands the changing nature of technology and seeks to make it work for him and those around him. Recently, Joe was welcomed to our chapter’s leadership team as a board member. In his volunteer work, he will help foster relationships with other Wichita STEM societies. Joe is the proud father of daughter Ariel who is currently enrolled in the Occupational Therapy graduate program at Creighton University.

Get to Know Joseph Schmidt

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Chapter 56 Expenses April 01, 2017—March 31, 2018

Rise of the Industrial Systems Engineer?

Recent Chapter Events

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Event Date Location

IISE Annual March 2, 2018 Orlando, FL

Chapter members Laila Cure, Bayram Yildrim, Joan Wagner, Raye Vu, and John Huffman attended the

annual IISE conference held in Orlando, FL at the royal Palms Resort at Universal Studios. The conference

featured meetings and technical sessions covering various aspects of traditional Industrial and Systems

Engineering. It also featured a look ahead at emerging technical practices in model and simulation,

machine learning and artificial intelligence, blockchain architecture, IoT and Industry 4.0 digitalization, and

enterprise analytics. John Huffman presented a paper of "Enterprise Architecture and its Impact on ISEs",

which introduced the potential for applying systems engineering techniques to enterprise data and

supporting infrastructure.

WESCON Controls Tour June 17, 2018 WESCON Controls, Inc. — Wichita, KS

The chapter was given an excellent review of the operations and a tour of the Wichita facilities for WESCON

Controls, Inc. The Wichita plant has been in operation since 1947 and has undergone incredible expansion

through the year. Much of the equipment used to make cable was engineered by WESCON. Among the

controls manufactured by WESCON are: Light Duty Mechanical Controls, Panel Controls, Push-Pull Controls,

Brake Cable and Lever Systems, Remote Valve Controls, Rotary Push-Pull Lever Controls, Commercial

Controls, and Electronic Controls.

Wingnuts Baseball August 17, 2018 Lawrence-Dumont Stadium - Wichita, KS

Forty members and their guests attended the kick-off event for our fundraising activity in support of the

2020 Regional Conference to be held at WSU. For the fifth time, our chapter held a tailgate party prior to

the Wichita Wingnuts baseball game at historic Lawrence-Dumont Stadium. The tailgate party consisted of

a BBQ with lots of excellent dishes provided by our members. Lawn games were available and folks spent a

nice couple of hours before the game meeting each other and catching up on family news. Also during the

tailgate party, the chapter presented a recognition award to Shawn Sauerbry for his outstanding work on

his senior design project from WSU. The ballgame started out great for the Wingnuts as they jumped to a

2-0 start on a monster home run. Unfortunately, the score didn't stand up as the visiting Chicago Dogs

countered with five unanswered runs. Still, it was a beautiful summer night in Wichita and the nice box

seats made things comfortable. After the game, the Wingnuts put on a fireworks spectacular which was an

event in itself. August 2018

2018 marks the second year of the Institute of

Industrial and Systems Engineers; a change

from the longstanding Institute of Industrial

Engineers.

The addition of Systems in our name opened

the door for wonderful possibilities. Most

people think of engineering as the practice of

‘building things’. We build industrial systems.

Increasingly, those in our discipline are being

looked upon to integrate the components of

industry into new systems. This includes herit-

age processes that were never designed to

integrate with modern methods.

While the addition of Systems to our name is

significant, no less important is the addition of

the preceding and. ‘Industrial and Systems

Engineers’ begs questions. Does it mean that

we are two complementing engineering disci-

plines in a single institute? Are they two labels

for the same thing? Is it an acknowledgement

that one is supplanting the other? Is it a chick-

en-and–the-egg thing with one being the

forerunner of the other? Is it a reflection of

something new?

The answer to all these questions may be

‘yes’. While IEs and SEs have traditionally

been treated as separate disciplines, since the

1980s there has been significant overlap of

interests, especially in related degree curricu-

la. Recently IE and SE departments at universi-

ties have been merging or adopting each

other’s names. In many countries, the names

are used interchangeably.

Most excitingly, IE and SE is merging into an

inter-discipline of Industrial Systems Engineer-

ing (denoted ISE). Use of the phrase has been

picking up steam in academic and govern-

ment circles. The magazine of our society is

named ISE. We use the term liberally here in

The Org Chart to describe our interdisciplinary

bent. The department at WSU is Industrial,

Systems, and Manufacturing Engineering

while KSU named its department Industrial

and Manufacturing Systems Engineering.

It may all be a matter of semantics for now,

but we may be heading towards the day that

our institute really is IISE?

Earning Power

Employment watchdog PayScale has recently

updated its list of the highest-paying bache-

lor’s degrees. The report includes early

career pay (0-5 years) and mid-career pay

(10+ years). PayScale also assigned a % high

meaning (which is the percentage of alumni

who believe that they’re making a difference

in the world). 45 of the 50 listed disciplines

are STEM or STEM-related.

#2

#16

#21

#25

#26

#34

#39

Link to article

Chapter Standards

Our Driving Vision

As a society representing major

engineering disciplines practicing in

Greater Wichita, IISE Chapter 56 will

realize technical and business excel-

lence through the skills, knowledge,

diversity, and participation of its

members.

Our Mission

Industrial and Systems Engineering is

vital to the economy and physical

growth of Greater Wichita. IISE

Chapter 56 seeks to promote the

continuous use of safe and sound

industrial and systems engineering

practices, while growing the reach of

the Industrial and Systems Engineer-

ing profession in Greater Wichita, in

the Great State of Kansas, and the

South Central Region of the United

States.

Our Purpose

IISE Chapter 56 is the professional

affiliation for Industrial and Systems

Engineering practitioners in Greater

Wichita. We serve members in in-

dustry, government, civic enterprises

and academia. We partner with the

Wichita State University student

chapter of IISE. We support the

Kansas State University student

chapter of IISE. We also collaborate

with related engineering and profes-

sional disciplines in Greater Wichita.

Our Objectives

Our chapter seeks opportunities and

earnestly plans improvements for

these activities:

Professional Networking

Professional Development

Chapter Growth

Succession Planning

Civic Leadership

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Event Date/Time Location Sponsored By

Mark Arts Tour

September 14, 2018

3:00PM

Wichita, KS IISE Chapter 56

2020 Regional Con-

ference Planning

Sessions

Starting September

(TBD)

Wichita State and other ven-

ues

IISE Chapter 56 & WSU

Student Chapter

Volunteers will be notified of sessions

KSU Polytechnic

Drone Facility and

Bulk Solids Lab Tours

October 19, 2018

Noon

Salina, KS IISE Chapter 56

Joint tour with WSU and

KSU Student Chapters

Volunteer Day at

Miller Recycling

November 3, 2018

Morning & Afternoon

shifts

ProKansas / Miller Recycling

Wichita, KS

IISE Chapter 56

Movie Night at WSU

Fundraiser

December 1 or 8,

2018

WSU Campus

Wichita, KS

IISE Chapter 56 & WSU

Student Chapter

Proceeds towards 2020

Regional Conference

General Meeting January 19, 2019 Experiential Engineering

Building — WSU Innovation

Campus. Wichita, KS

IISE Chapter 56

August 2018

Upcoming Chapter Events The following are the near-term events and activities of the chapter. E-mail notices will be sent to all

members as reminders and to communicate updates.

Regional Conference Planning

The following is a reprint of a recent e-mail (sent July 10, 2018) to our chapter’s members soliciting their

participation for planning activities for the 2020 IISE South Central Regional Conference.

Dear IISE Chapter 56 Member,

Our last newsletter (Spring 2018) contained an article about the South Central United States

Regional Conference being held at Wichita State in early March of 2020. For some time now, this

conference has brought together participants from the seventeen universities scattered throughout

Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas that have IISE student chapters. The main event of

the conference is the student paper competition, but there are also networking and educational

opportunities throughout the three days of the conference.

During the recent Annual IISE Conference, I met with our Regional Vice President (RVP) Niranjan

Kulkarni and our past RVP Brandon Laird to discuss the future activities of our chapter and things we

can support to strengthen our region. The BIG IDEA that came from this is to expand the 2020 South

Central Regional Conference at WSU to include a ‘Professional Track’. This track will be open to

professional members of IISE and others from industry. The Great Lakes Region did this at their

recent regional conference to great success.

Our chapter leaders’ met to discuss this and were unanimous in taking on this challenge.

Hosting even a modest-sized conference will be a formidable task for both the WSU student chapter and for our chapter. There will need to be continuous coordination in scheduling events. Funds need to be raised, affordable prices need to be set, and regular communications (especially advertis-ing) needs to be made. While March 2020 sounds far off, we need to start organizational tasks now! To get the ball rolling, we have four avenues to activity that we are pursuing:

Professional Planning Team – We are seeking volunteers to plan the professional track. We

hope to have a kick-off meeting in the coming weeks. Continued on Page 7

Joint Planning with WSU – Regular interaction with WSU is vital. We will need to coordinate the professional track with student activi-ties (What do we do in parallel? What do we share?, etc.).

Joint Planning with Kansas Chapters – Kansas is one of the most active states in IISE and we have been discussing a closer collabora-tion between the Kansas City, Wichita, Kansas State, and Wichita State chapters. There has been some informal discussion about a cooperative event at the Regional Conference.

Sponsorship and Fund Raising – Perhaps the most daunting task is funding the conference. We seek to make the conference afforda-

ble to all who attend. To help, we will seek corporate sponsorships and conduct fund raising activities. For example, the recent Wichi-ta Wingnuts Baseball and Tailgate party on Aug. 17 was a fund-raising activity.

I am appealing to all our members to get involved in this activity. If you would like to be on our planning team, please let me know. I any case, please support our fund raising efforts. All the best,

John E. Huffman, Ph.D., P.E. President of the Greater Wichita Professional Chapter (56) of The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

The response to this original appeal has been lukewarm at best. To-date, only one member who is not on the leadership team for the chapter has

volunteered their service. We intend to launch the planning sessions this month. We do not expect this to be a heavy time consuming activity if we

get enough volunteers to distribute the work. Please consider this request and let us know your intentions to participate by responding with an e-

mail to iise56@cox.net. Thanks!

Regional Conference Planning

Analytics About Us

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“The BIG IDEA that came from (the IISE Annual Conference) is to expand the 2020 South Central Regional Conference at WSU to include a ‘Professional Track’. This track will be open to professional members of IISE and others from industry”.

Professional Opportunities

Local Job Openings

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. Quality Assurance Supplier 3 2018-3122 Production Operations Specialist 2 2018-3085 Fabrications Manager 2 Positions 2018-3049 2018-2944 Senior Fabrication Manager 2018-2984 Textron Aviation System Safety Engineer 2019-266112

If any member knows of a need for ISEs in

our area, please inform us at

iise56@cox.net.

August 2018

Continued from Page 6

Professional

Student

IISE showed the status of chapters at the recent Annual Conference. The chapters of the South Central

U.S. region are shown below. The Kansas chapters are consistently rated among the Institute’s best.

Upcoming STEM Events

About Chapter 56

We are a professional chapter

of the Institute of Industrial and

Systems Engineers representing

the Greater Wichita, Kansas

area.

We are formally know

as Chapter 56, the Greater

Wichita Professional Chapter of

the Institute of Industrial and

Systems Engineers. We are one

of six professional chapters

in Region 5, the South Central

United States. This region also

includes student chapters at

fifteen colleges and universities,

including our supported student

chapters at Wichita State

University and Kansas State

University.

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Activities in our local Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) community.

Event Location Date/Time About the event

GOCreate Workshops WSU Experiential Engineering Building

On-going http://www.gocreate.com/workshops

Wichita Aviation Exhibit: Design, Build, Fly

Exploration Place On-going need for volunteers

Training sessions for volunteers of the new aerospace exhibit. Dee.Wright@exploration.org

Wichita Council of Engi-neering Societies

Panera Bread @ Central & Hillside

Monthly Planning for next year’s banquet and mini-fair. Contact: Dustin Tireman

Frontiers in Flight Open House & Airshow http://www.kansas.com/news/business/aviation/article213870144.html

McConnell Air Force Base

September 8 & 9 Spirit will have a STEM booth with some fun hands-on activities for kids to do at the show. Spirit employees can volunteer to work their booth by signing up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e044ea8ad2aa6fa7-frontiers

Kansas BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science & Technology) Robotics Mentors

September 8—October 20

Assist/mentor teams. Contact: Nick Hovey

Kansas BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science & Technology) Robotics Competition

Hartman Arena October 31 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

http://www.wichita.edu/thisis/home/?u=kansasbest 30 Kansas high school teams will compete.

If any member knows of a STEM in our area to list in this section, please inform us at iise56@cox.net.

Recent Event Photos