Announcement from DAA President Jerry Peplinski:
To All, we will have the subject meeting at the house next Tuesday 7/30/13 at 7:00pm to discuss the upcoming DAA Membership Meeting (to be held on August 24th) and house items:
1) Move in / Move out of the house rooms.
2) Bar improvement status.
3) Front planter rebuild schedule.
4) Comments on how the staining of front porch went.
5) Other items.
Please attend.
Thanks,
Jerry Peplinski
Chapter president Andrew Linson (Left) and DAA President Jerry Peplinski (right) stand next to our newly printed vinyl banner! Credit to Joe Daily (Delta Active & Pledge Trainer) for the design of the banner.
This fall semester, Kappa Eta Kappa fraternity participated in the 2013 Engineering Expo (http://engineeringexpo.wisc.edu/). This three day event is held every two years at the College of Engineering campus, and gives engineering organizations as well as individual UW students an opportunity to build, test, and display an engineering project to the general public.
Elementary, middle, and high school students are invited to explore the exhibits and interact with the hands-on displays. The event is also well-attended by members of the local community of all ages. This was an excellent community outreach event for the fraternity.
This year, the KHK project was called the “Megatactilus.” This device is a multi-touch computer table, similar to a large iPad or Microsoft Surface. Instead of a capacitive glass touchscreen, commonly found in tablets and cellular phones, it uses a pair of commodity webcams and an array of infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs) to read out the presence of a finger or other object blocking the path of the light. The camera is designed to filter out visible light, so only IR can get through, while a separate LCD projector (with an IR filter) was employed to simultaneously project an image on to the screen.
Combined with software processing and calibration, the device enables a user to interact with a commodity Windows 7 PC, using multiple fingers to click, drag, and swipe input to the screen. As a demonstration of the technology, we had a web browser open to the popular game Angry Birds (photo shows active member Dale Saari teaching a middle school student how to play).
Credit goes to Andrew Linson for building the chassis, Dale Saari and Matt From for designing the LED and camera system, Dan Boehm for additional help, as well as other active members for their contributions. We would also like to acknowledge the generous funding support from the Delta Alumni Association for materials.
Photos & Captions:
1) Photo of the device, showing the inside of the chassis with commodity webcam, stereo speakers, and mirror for LCD projection.
2) KHK Active Dale Saari demonstrating Angry Birds to a middle school student.
3) KHK Active Dale Saari attending the table at the Expo.
4) A tri-fold display was prepared, outlining the design and theory behind an optical multi-touch surface.
The Delta Chapter House hosted a work day this weekend, led by DAA President Jerry Peplinski.
A major milestone happened today at the work day. The KHK Delta Flag and Banner were hung up today in the Chapter Office (Executive Board Meeting Room). Photos of the work day are attached below, with the following caption credits:
1) Tom Irwin (DAA director) Left and Steve Paugh (DAA Treasurer) Right move the banner from Steve’s home to Tom’s van for transporting to Delta House for installation.
2) Filing cabinet making it’s way along the 3rd floor hallway.
3) Filing cabinet movers (Left to Right) Motoya Higashi (Alumnus), Benjamin Lange (Active), Aaron Lang (Active) and Drew Beatty (Active).
4) Delta Flag Hung on west wall of the Chapter Office.
The 86th National Convention of Kappa Eta Kappa was held this past weekend (23-February-2013) at Beta Chapter in Minneapolis, MN. The Delta Alumni Association submitted a document listing all 141 dues-paying members of DAA to the National Executive Council (NEC). Representing the DAA with six votes were:
Jerry Peplinski (2 votes)
Samuel Hurley (1 vote)
Alex Smith (2 votes)
Scott Woods (1 vote)
In addition to attending the meeting, DAA members Jerry Peplinski, Samuel Hurley, and Scott Woods drove up to St. Cloud, MN to observe the status of the Iota house, which was purchased thanks to a loan from the Delta Housing Corporation and is currently under extensive renovations.
Finally, the DAA would like to congratulate the four new officers of national. A photo is attached.
From left to right:
Scott Woods, Treasurer (DAA Director)
Maggie White, Secretary (Delta Active Member & Secretary)
Luke Grigore, Vice President (Beta Chapter President)
Samuel Hurley, President (DAA Director)
I will be representing KHK NEC as acting secretary this year (proxy for Matt Buck), and would like to extend an invitation to the convention meeting to all members and alumni.
**Lunch will be served at the KHK house prior to the meeting**
Coffman Building
Room 324, Feb 23rd at 2pm.
300 Washington Ave. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
All of those who are looking at parking should Google “East River Road Garage”
Link Here (http://www1.umn.edu/pts/park/facilities/errramp.html)
Here is the layout of the room where we will be having our meeting.
(http://sua.umn.edu/about/directory/coffman/third.php)
The garage is connected to the student union (Coffman). Take the tunnel to the basement, then come up to the third floor.
DAA meeting was held at Union South Madison WI on 2/9/13.
In attendance were:
Standing (left to right)
Mark Van Susteren (DAA Director)
Bud Kehrli (DHC Treasurer)
Tom Irwin (DAA Director)
Matt Buck (DAA Secretary and NEC Secretary)
Steve Paugh (DAA Treasurer)
Sam Hurley (DAA Director)
Ian Powell (Chapter President)
Dale Saari (Chapter Pledge Trainer)
Matt From (Chapter Treasurer)
Alex Smith (DAA Vice President)
Sitting (left to right)
Jerry Peplinski (DAA President and DHC President)
Scott Woods (DAA Director and NEC Treasurer)
Sean Scannell (Delta Alumnus)
You are invited to attend the annual membership meeting in Madison, Wisconsin on:
1:00pm Saturday, February 9th, 2013
The meeting will be at the new Union South (1308 W. Dayton Street), most likely on the second floor in room 216, the Scholar’s Room. Check Today in the Union (TITU —http://www.union.wisc.edu/titu/) for the latest room information in case the Union moves the room.
Parking is available in the basement of Union South, lot 17 (parking ramp just north of Camp Randall Stadium) and lot 20 (1390 University Ave). There is a parking fee to park at both.
The meeting will start at 1:00 PM and should adjourn by 3:00 PM
You are also invited to meet at 11:00 AM for a lunch at Lucky’s Bar & Grille located at 1421 Regent Street.
A meeting agenda will be available when it is ready. Please infrom the president, Jerry Peplinski, if there are any topics you would like brought up at the meeting.
Please respond on the return reply slip in the December mailing with your dues if you will be able to attend this meeting.