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The Passing ParadeISCET NEWS & VIEWSJune 2007Ed Clingman • ISCET Administrator“Call 800-946-0201if you are lookingfor something newto help you upgradeyour electronics educationclasses, do itnow.”ProService - June 2007 8Election of ISCET Officers & Directorsis taking place as this is being written. Bal-lots are on the ISCET website, www.iscet.Org. The procedure is new this year…we’re vot-ing online, using our website as the ballot box,and saving a lot of money spent on postagein previous years. You can print your ballotsoff the website and mail them in, or fax themto 817-921-3741. They can also be presentedprior to the vote count at the ISCET Membershipmeeting which is scheduled for Saturday,July 28, 2007 at the NPSC (Joint NESDA/ISCETConvention) being held at the Masrriott TechCenter in Denver, CO at 9:15 AM MDT. Any votepreviously mailed can be changed by the personvoting at NPSC 2007.Ballots are in the Members Only section of theISCET Website. If you don’t know the password,call 1-800-946-0201. The offices of President,Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and2 At Large Directors will be elected.IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED - - DO IT NOW!ESA Learning Graphics, LG-1 through -4are available for schools that are using the ESAprogram for their electronics training. The LearningCourses, LC-1 through -4 are also readyfor student use under the ESA program. Useof these graphics which are accessed throughour website is free until August 2007 at whichtime a sight license is necessary for unlimiteduse in your school at $450.00 per school year.For more information call 800-946-0201 ore-mail info@iscet.org. If you are looking forsomething new to help you upgrade yourelectronics education classes, do it now.SKILLS, USAwill again be usingISCET examinationsat the2007 NationalCompetition inKansas City, MO in Electronics Technology andElectronics Application as a tool in providingcompetition to select National Winners. Mr.Del Whiteman, ISCET Director and EducationalConsultant will work with these two groupsas well as present “The Changing Face ofElectronics Education” at the SKILLS Universitypart of the gathering.NCEE, the National Coalition for ElectronicsEducation, an organization consisting ofeducators, leaders in electronics, appliance,industrial, and many other segments of electronicsis working very hard to keep electronicseducation in the curricula of schools all overthe nation. If you are interested in keeping apool of electronics technicians training to fillattrition vacancies and also to fuel a growingeconomy, and providing a career path that ouryoung people can adopt to provide a good living,then contact them at info@ncee-edu.org.LIFETIME ISCET MEMBERSHIPS! Have youconsidered lifetime memberships instead of theannual renewals? A membership for the restof your life costs only $425.00. That’s only 6years of memberships at $ 70.00 plus $5.00…so after 6 years you could have had a paid upmembership for just $5.00 more….for the restof your life!Preparing for the END! – Every few yearssome group of people, most of which younever heard of before, have declared that theWorld is coming to an end on some specificdate or time. Nobody pays much attention tothem except for the novelty involved. BUTNOW COMES ALONG Sir Isaac Newton,yep, the one that fathered Physics no less withhis deductions concerning apples falling froma tree…yep that Sir Isaac Newton. It seemsthat in the year of 1704 he wrote a letter (currentlyon display at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University)that predicted the end of the Worldin the year 2060. “Working from verses in theBook of Daniel, the elaborator of the classicallaws of gravity, motion and optics arguedthat the world would end 1,260 years afterthe foundation of the Holy Roman Empire inwestern Europe in 800 AD.” as reported byPhysorg.com in their June 17, 2007 issue onthe internet.