Honors & Awards Banquet

ACESS has sponsored Annual Honors and Awards Banquets since 1948 to bring together member societies of ACESS, to recognize outstanding technical talent and to strengthen ties among the members of ACESS, the academic world and distinguished leaders of local industry. The Honors and Awards Banquet provides a joint forum to recognize outstanding science and mathematics students, to present sponsored scholarships and awards, to recognize the Distinguished Service and ACESS Award recipients. The banquet concludes with a speaker who presents the state of science and technology in his or her field of experience.

The 61^st Annual Banquet will be held on November 6, 2008.

The 60^th Annual Banquet was held on November 1, 2007. The speaker at this banquet was Mr. Charles Lavan and the topic of the speech was "From Nano-tubes to SUPER Blimps"

 

Honorary Banquet Chair

The Board of Directors of ACESS requests an outstanding individual to be the honorary chair of the annual Honors and Awards Banquet which is held on the first Thursday in November.
This individual is requested to assist ACESS in the following activities:
1. Act as the sponsor for ACESS fund raising by authorizing solicitation letters to be sent under the sponsor's signature.
2. Attend the annual banquet.
3. Contribute to offset dinner expenses for the students and teachers to be honored. This is a voluntary contribution and in the past up to $4000 has been contributed by our generous sponsors.
4.  Encourage members of his/her organization to attend the banquet.
5.  Utilize his/her influence to request another individual to be the banquet chair for the following year.