San Diego Rotary

STEM Cook-off
2016-05-12 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Guest speaker: Khamphet Pease, Math, Science & Technology Teacher, Wilson Middle School
Preparing Kids for Tomorrow’s Opportunities
Three years ago, Club 33’s STEM Committee launched an initiative designed to inspire young people to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, and to expose them to career possibilities in that sector. Learn how the program has grown, and see, LIVE, how it is teaching students skills such as programming and engineering that they’ll need in tomorrow’s workforce. Teams from Adams and Rosa Parks Elementary Schools will showcase their robotics prowess in response to challenges issued by “Phet” Pease (2014 Middle School Teacher of the Year), who also will comment on the value of this and other Rotary-sponsored STEM programming.

City Heights Rotaract
2016-05-10 18:00 - 19:30 | City Heights Center, 4305 University Avenue Ste. 640, San Diego, CA, 92105, United States
Guest speaker: Peter Duncan, President of San Diego Rotary

Grupo Folklórico from San Ysidro High School
2016-05-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, students from San Ysidro High’s Grupo Folklorico will perform for us.
Grupo Folklórico San Ysidro (GFSY) was founded by Mr. Lalo M. Hirsch in July of 2002. The group’s beginning coincided with the inception of San Ysidro High School as a new addition to the Sweetwater Union High School District in Chula Vista, CA. Dancers consist of high school and alumni students to SYHS.
Starting the program with only twenty-five students, Mr. Hirsch has now built the dance program to serve roughly two hundred dance students each year, making it the largest folklórico program in the Sweetwater Union High School District. High school group members receive college elective credit, performing arts credit, as well as physical educational credit. Dancers range in age from 14 to 25 years of age.
The purpose of GFSY is to promote an understanding and appreciation for the rich and diverse world of Mexican folk dance. GFSY performs all over the county of San Diego, CA, whether at local high schools, community centers, or on military bases.
Grupo Folklórico San Ysidro has been awarded outstanding service awards from The California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; The National Childhood Obesity Conference; Veterans of Foreign Wars; and The Commander of Naval Services. GFSY won first place in the adult division as well as best overall dance group in the 2011 Mariachi & Folklórico Festival in Riverside, California.
GFSY is most proud of the family environment amongst dance members. Many of them are long-time friends, neighbors or relatives. Dancers understand and embrace Mr. Hirsch’s philosophy that folkloric dance is something rare, special, and in fact precious. Group members take pride in representing Mexico’s rich and diverse history through creative movement and expression.

SDSU Rotaracts
2016-05-03 | CA
End of year reception

Rotarians At Work Day 2016
2016-04-30 08:00 - 12:00 | CA
Rotarians At Work Day happens the last Saturday in April each year. Started in 2006 as a joint effort between two Rotary Districts (one in the United States and one in Mexico), Rotarians at Work Day continues to grow. Each year, Clubs around the world identify a hands-on project that all members can participate in to help their local community.
To sign up for a project, click on the project name. Don’t forget to take some pictures and email them in to the Rotary office.
Project: Veterans Memorial Museum
Address: 2115 Park Blvd., SD 92101
Time: 9:00 am – Noon # of volunteers needed: 100
Description: Trash pick up and ground beautification. (cutting, trimming, and raking the landscape). All tools, including gloves, will be provided by the park staff. All minors under 18 that are not accompanied by an adult must sign a waiver and bring it with them on the day of the event. All volunteers will need to wear closed toe shoes and long pants. Everyone will be asked to sign in upon arrival. Parking will be in any of the lots just below the museum, which can be entered off Park Blvd.
Coordinator: Michelle Candland
Click here to see the list of volunteers
Project: Balboa Park Nursery – FULL
Address: 2850 Pershing Dr., SD 92101
Time: 8:00 am – Noon # of volunteers needed: 15-30
Description: Transplant trees, shrubs and plants.
Coordinator: Jim Hughes
Click here to see the list of volunteers
Project: Manzanita Canyon
Address: Corner of Redwood and Central Avenue in City Heights
Time: 9:00 am – Noon # of volunteers needed: 5-15
Description: Work alongside 50 Hoover Interact students clearing debris from the canyon and surrounding areas, delineating the trail with logs, trimming bushes that are encroaching on the trail, removal of invasive plants and spreading mulch on path.
Coordinator: Beatriz Valencia
Click here to see the list of volunteers
Project: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery – FULL
Address: 1880 Cabrillo Memorial Dr., SD 92106
Time: 8:00 am – Noon # of volunteers needed: 15-20
Description: Grave restoration and ground beautification. Bring a hat and work gloves. Family members above the age of 10 are welcome.
Coordinator: Mike Caruso
Click here to see the list of volunteers
Project: Miramar National Cemetery – FULL
Address: 5795 Nobel Dr., SD 92122
Time: 8:00 am – Noon # of volunteers needed: 15-20
Description: Grave restoration and ground beautification. Bring a hat and work gloves. Family members above the age of 10 are welcome.
Coordinator: Rick Huenefeld
Click here to see the list of volunteers
Project: Storefront Youth Shelter – FULL
Address: 3427 4th Avenue, SD 92103
Time: 8:00 am – Noon # of volunteers needed: 10
Description: Interior and exterior painting, minor repairs, bathroom accessory installation, and fun! Family members welcome.
Coordinator: Jim Groen
Click here to see the list of volunteers

Dark - No meeting at Liberty Station
2016-04-28 | CA
No meeting this week.

SDSU Rotaracts
2016-04-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2016-04-19 19:00 - 21:00 | San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, 92182
Program TBD
Pride Suite 1st Floor
Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union

The First Folio - Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of Old Globe & Misty Jones, Director Central Library
2016-04-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
The Old Globe and the San Diego Public Library were selected last year to co-host the only stop in California for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, a national traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The First Folio is one of the most important and consequential books every published, and the plays printed in it—the plays that are the lifeblood of The Old Globe—are cornerstones of our language, our worldview, and our very humanity.
Barry Edelstein and Misty Jones will give Rotarians a preview of First Folio! and also talk about the Folio itself: what it is, and why this chance to see it up close is so rare and special. The treasured volume will be on display free-of-charge to the public at the San Diego Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common from June 4 through July 7, 2016.

Grotarian Event - Evans Car Collection
2016-04-19 17:30 - 19:30 | CA
Join the Grotarians for an evening at the Evans Garage. This is a private, family owned, museum. Inside are beautiful antique stained glass murals, classic cars and fire engines, clothing and tapestries dating back 100 years, original automobile advertisements from the early 1900s, and a suspended 1917 airplane from the Royal Flying Corps.
Among the special vehicles in the collection is an exact replica of the 1909 Blitzen-Benz, a 1947 Continental convertible, a 1957 Thunderbird, a 1958 Buick Caballero station wagon, and a 1957 Ford Fairlane convertible. Come and see the race-driven 1913 Isotta Fraschini Indy race car, the 1905 Pope Toledo, and an 1894 Benz.
As you wonder around the collection, we will be having hors d’oeuvre and beverages.
LAST DAY TO REGISTER IS FRIDAY, APRIL 15
April 19, 2016
5:30 to 7:30
$40/person
Location: 4953 Pacific Highway
(near Morena Blvd. and Taylor Street)
San Diego, CA 92110
Click here to register
Click here to see who is coming

Rick Baldridge, President & COO, ViaSat
2016-04-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
ViaSat – Pushing the Limits of Innovation
From a Carlsbad startup to 30 years later, ViaSat Inc has grown into a global broadband services & technology company that ensures consumers, businesses, governments and military personnel have communications access – anywhere – whether on the ground or in-flight. The company’s innovations in designing highest-capacity satellites and securing ground infrastructure and terminal technologies, coupled with its international network of managed Wi-Fi hotspots, enable ViaSat to deliver a best-available network that extends the reach and accessibility of broadband internet service, globally. Rick Baldridge, President & COO, shares how ViaSat is connecting the world and pushing the limits.
Rick Baldridge is responsible for leading corporate strategy and operations for the ViaSat organization as a whole, guiding and evaluating the company’s three operating segments (Services, Commercial, and Government), and cultivating and maintaining relations with the investor community. Mr. Baldridge joined ViaSat in April 1999 as vice president and chief financial officer, added the positions of executive vice president and COO in July 2000, and was appointed president in November 2003.
During his tenure, ViaSat has grown organically and through acquisitions by more than a factor of 10, to a multi-billion dollar enterprise. His leadership has helped build the organization from a small business to a major prime contractor and technology partner to companies worldwide, including a transition from a product manufacturer to a global service provider.

Hoover Interact
2016-04-13 12:00 - 17:00 | Price Philanthropies, 4305 University Avenue #600, San Diego, CA, 92105, United States
Interviews of the Hoover Interact Class of 2019 at Price Philanthropies in City Heights. Enjoy lunch with other Rotarians and the Price Philanthropies staff before interviews begin. Time commitment is typically from noon – 5 pm. More details to follow. Contact Mia Harenski or David Kvendru for more information.

SDSU Rotaracts
2016-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, 92182
Potential New Member informational meeting
Pride Suite 1st Floor
Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union

City Heights Rotaract
2016-04-12 18:00 - 19:30 | City Heights Center, 4305 University Avenue Ste. 640, San Diego, CA, 92105, United States
Guest speaker: Marianne Bernaldo, President of Rotary of Mission Valley Sunset

Hoover Interact
2016-04-07 13:30 - 14:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States

Jeff Kightlinger, GM, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
2016-04-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Southern California’s Water: A History of Southern California Development and Challenges for the Future
California is a nation state with an economy that would rank it in the top ten nations of the world if it were a stand-alone country. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California serves water to 19 million Southern Californians – that is half the state’s population and almost 60% of California’s economy. The history of the Metropolitan Water District and Southern California’s water supply is really the story of the development of Southern California. Without the development of our massive integrated water supply infrastructure, the vibrant, booming, successful Southern California we know today would not exist. Jeffrey Kightlinger will tell the story of how Metropolitan came to be, the challenges of maintaining a reliable water supply in an arid region, and how Metropolitan plans to meet the challenges of the future.
Jeffrey Kightlinger is General Manager and Chief Executive Officer for The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The Metropolitan Water District is the largest municipal water provider in the nation delivering an average of over 2 billion gallons of water a day to 19 million customers across Southern California. Metropolitan serves one out of every two Californians in the six counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura.
Kightlinger was appointed general manager in February 2006. As General Manager, he manages the District’s $1.8 billion annual budget and 1,800 employees to ensure the safe and reliable delivery of high quality water every day throughout Southern California. He reports to a board of 38 members representing 26 member agencies.

SDSU Rotaracts
2016-04-05 19:00 - 21:00 | San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, 92182
Closed meeting – Club Elections

Chris Sichel - President and CEO, Make-A-Wish San Diego
2016-03-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
The Power of a Wish: Why Hope, Strength and Joy matter in life’s greatest battles
Make-A-Wish began humbly in 1980, when a group of kind hearted police officers made a very sick boy a “cop for a day”. This act of kindness began with a small community who came together to make a difference for a child when he needed it most. From that community, sprung a movement that now reaches across the nation and the globe that seeks to grant a wish to every child battling a life-threatening illness. Chris Sichel will discuss the inspiring ways that a wish can truly change a child, a family and a community. Medicine can heal a child’s body, but a life-affirming wish can heal their spirit.

St. Patrick's Day Program
2016-03-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
More program details coming soon!

Membership VIP Reception
2016-03-24 11:15 - 12:15 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Give the Gift of Rotary!
You and your prospective member are invited to a pre-lunch meeting reception at the Liberty Station Conference Center for an opportunity to introduce your member prospect to some of our club Rotarians and Board Members. The club will provide a complimentary lunch for your guest.
—ADMISSION REQUIREMENT—Bring one prospective member!
The Reception will begin at 11:15 in Room 202.
Registration is required! Click here to register.
Click here to see who is coming.

SDSU Rotaracts
2016-03-22 19:00 - 21:00 | San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, 92182
Primary meeting with guest speaker Jenni Prisk
Pride Suite 1st floor
Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union

San Diego Rotary Club Foundation Board meeting
2016-03-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Club 33 Conference Room, 2247 San Diego Ave, Suite 233, San Diego, CA, 92110, United States

2016 Camp Enterprise Kickoff
2016-03-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
This is our club’s 41st year of bringing high school Juniors to camp where they learn about the Free Enterprise System!
The camp provides an important learning environment for all to gain leadership skills and experience team building, and students come away with a greater awareness of their possibilities. Camp Enterprise is truly a life changing and transformative experience.
This year’s keynote speaker is Jeremy Poincenot , a world champion athlete who has overcome adversity and found a positive outcome to life’s challenges. Jeremy will inspire all of us with his life story.
Click here to learn more about Jeremy.

SDSU Rotaracts
2016-03-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2016-03-01 19:00 - 21:00 | San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, 92182
Auxiliary meeting
Pride Suite 1st floor
Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union

California Innocence Project
2016-03-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
The Causes of Wrongful Conviction
Guest speaker: Justin Brooks, Director and Co-Founder of the California Innocence Project
Hundreds of innocent people have been released from prison in the United States over the past two decades. By examining the cases, we have learned that common causes of wrongful conviction are false confessions, bad identifications, police and prosecutor misconduct, informant testimony, and poor defense work. Professor Justin Brooks, who has worked in the trenches exonerating clients as the Director of the California Innocence Project, will talk about some of his project’s exonerations and the causes that led to the tragic result of an innocent person serving time in prison for a crime he/she did not commit.
The California Innocence Project (CIP) is a law school clinical program dedicated to releasing wrongfully convicted inmates and providing an outstanding educational experience to the students enrolled in the clinic.
Founded in 1999, CIP reviews more than 2,000 claims of innocence from California inmates each year. Students who participate in the year-long clinic work alongside CIP staff attorneys on cases where there is strong evidence of factual innocence. Together, they have secured the release of many innocent people who otherwise may have spent the rest of their lives in prison.
Clinic students assist in investigation and litigation by locating and re-interviewing witnesses, examining new evidence, filing motions, securing experts, and providing support to attorneys during evidentiary hearings and trials. CIP has trained more than 200 students who have gone on to become highly successful criminal defense attorneys, criminal prosecutors, Assistant Attorneys General, and civil attorneys; all of whom, after their experience in CIP, believe in a fair and honest justice system and realize there is always room for improvement in the law.

SDSU Rotaracts
2016-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, 92182
Primary meeting with guest speaker President Peter Duncan
Pride Suite 1st Floor
Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Center

City Heights Rotaract
2016-03-08 18:00 - 19:30 | City Heights Center, 4305 University Avenue Ste. 640, San Diego, CA, 92105, United States
Guest Speaker: Walter Lam, President & CEO of Alliance for African Assistance and member of San Diego Rotary

Jack Ford
2016-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
What was it like to live in the White House?
Even though Jack Ford grew up in Washington DC and had been around politics all his life, he never imagined one day he’d be living in the White House; but that’s what happened and it happened fast. One day Jack is working as a back-country Ranger in Yellowstone Park and the next he’s sitting in the East Room as his father, Gerald Ford, is being sworn in as the 38th President. From there it only gets crazier: intense media scrutiny for his controversial comments, meetings with world leaders, and socializing with the likes of George Harrison, Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger and Chris Evert.
Please contact the office no later than Monday, February 29 if you are bringing a guest to this program.

Annual Brown Bag Luncheon
2016-02-25 12:00 - 13:30 | CA
One of the long standing traditions of Rotary, the Brown Bag Luncheon provides members with a chance to visit a vast number of member businesses and join fellow Rotarians at their place of work.
Thank you to all of our participating hosts this year!
THERE WILL NOT BE A MEETING AT LIBERTY STATION. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED!

Lunches will be from 12-1:30 pm unless the host has indicated differently in their description.
Lunch will be served at all sites.
Registration is required in order to participate – please no walk-ins.
Guests are welcome but must be registered. You will be charged the normal $31 lunch fee per guest.
Each location has limited space available. We will close registration once their max attendees has been reached.
You will receive an email confirming your choice of lunch site.

Don’t forget to sign in upon your arrival so you can get credit for your attendance. Enjoy!

Company
Event Description

Max

Address

Directions or Special Instructions (i.e. start/end times, parking)

Jackie Robinson Family YMCA
This will be the last Brown Bag opportunity at the JRYMCA before the current facility is replaced by a new $25M facility. Learn all the details about the new Y that has served San Diego County’s most critical community since 1943.

250

151 YMCA Way SD 92102

Academy of Our Lady of Peace
The rich history of OLP in San Diego and beyond beckons your presence. Elegance, mystery and ingenious foresight all encompass the property once known as the Vandruff Estate and now known as The Academy of Our Lady of Peace (OLP). Sitting atop a glorious hill, OLP boasts a rich and historic history and is amongst the architectural jewels of San Diego. Not only does it have a property that spans 22 acres and houses 6 historical buildings, but OLP offers panoramic views of Mission Valley and the Texas Street Canyon.

50

4860 Oregon St. SD 92116

San Diego Magazine
We will demonstrate how San Diego Magazine is produced and how it has evolved into a multi-media marketing platform to include digital media, events and custom publishing.

30

707 Broadway Ste. 1100, SD 92101

NAI San Diego
We will discuss recent trends in CRE prices and rents, biggest sales and leases of 2015, predictions of real estate values going forward into 2016.

15

123 Camino de la Reina Ste. 200 South, SD 92108

The Art Institute of California – San Diego
Tour a creative arts college, offering a wide range of WASC-accredited degrees in Culinary, Fashion, Media Arts and Design. Experience a beer pairing demo over lunch in the student-run restaurant “The Palette.” Observe a culinary class in action. Have a variety of desserts prepared by a Baking & Pastry class taught by a European master baker.

20

7650 Misson Valley Road, SD 92131

This lunch is from 11:30-1:30pm

Timken Museum of Art
Treat yourself to the treasures at the Timken Museum of Art, in the cultural heart of San Diego, for one of the finest art-viewing experiences in the world. Join us for lunch and a tour in the museum with former Timken Board President and former Club 33 President Pat Crowell to learn about his jewel in Balboa Park. Considered one of the finest small museums in the world, the Timken provides visitors with an enriching cultural experience in intimate surroundings – always free of charge.

24

1500 El Prado, SD 92101

Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
The Fleet will showcase its work to bring the wonder of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning to children and adults throughout San Diego and beyond. Through our awe-inspiring traveling exhibitions, IMAX films, after-school and teacher training programs, and new community programs like 52 Weeks of Science and Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar, the Fleet is breaking new ground by offering opportunities to engage in science through our facility in Balboa Park, our teachers and schools, and in the communities where San Diegans live, work and play.

80

1875 El Prado, SD 92101

CHP Dispatch Center/Caltrans TMC
It is the CALTRANS/CHP Transportation Management Center (TMC) that gives us constant reports on the travel status of our freeways. But how do they do it? The tour of San Diego’s pioneering TMC is rare insider’s look at the home of the guardian angels who protect and serve us while driving on San Diego’s freeways.

open

7183 Opportunity Road, SD 92111

San Diego Humane Society

Lunch with the San Diego Humane Society will include a welcome from President Gary Weitzman, a presentation or video on SDHS, an animal meet and greet, a tour of the facility and a special gift.

50

5500 Gaines St. SD 92109

Parking is also available at the Kitten Nursery across the street, Gaines and Azusa street parking, and in the general parking lot

Scripps Health
An exclusive, behind-the-scenes, hard hat guided tour of the new Scripps Clinic Anderson Medical Pavillion, scheduled to open in September 2016, located on the campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, adjacent to the Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute. The building is 175,000 square feet, centralizing 12 specialties and 70 physicians under one roof. See this state-of-the-art facility before it opens the doors to its first patients.

26

9888 Genessee Ave., La Jolla 92038

Networking and Lunch starts at 11:45 a.m. AMP Tour starts at 12:30 p.m. Directions to event at the new Scripps Clinic Anderson Medical Pavilion & Schaetzel Center at Scripps La Jolla: Take Interstate 5 to Genesee Avenue (one exit past La Jolla Village Drive), go east on Genesee to entrance to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. Take 2nd right toward front of hospital. Enter the underground parking structure, park your car and take the stairs or elevator to the ground level. If lot is full, proceed to the parking structure to the west of the hospital, park your car and take the stairs or elevator to the ground level. Enter the Schaetzel Center Building (to the east of the Hospital entrance). The entrance to the Founders Room will be to the left (across from the Great Hall) before you enter the Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute. Self-parking will be validated.

San Diego Oasis
Take a tour of San Diego OASIS and experience a taste of classes, such as Line Dancing; Backpacking Travel Made Light & Easy; Knitting; Wheelchair Dancing; Spanish; French; and Beginning Guitar. Enjoy lunch with OASIS instructors and guest lecturers. Learn more about two volunteer Intergenerational programs making a positive impact on the lives of children throughout San Diego County. George Chamberlin, financial journalist and radio show host, is one of OASIS’s instructors and will be present for the lunch. After lunch, if you are able to stay, we invite you to join Psychologist Larry Solomon for his fascinating lecture “The Final Inning.”

20

1702 Camino del Rio North, 92108
(3rd Floor)

The OASIS office is located on the 3rd floor of Macy’s department store in the Mission Valley mall (1702 Camino del Rio North, San Diego, CA 92108). Please park in the South parking lot by the “Tilted Kilt” restaurant and enter through Macy’s side door, which is directly facing highway 8. As soon as you enter Macy’s, you will find the elevator in the left hand corner. Take it to the 3rd floor. If you get lost, just call: office phone is 619.881.6262 and Simona’s cell is 619.846.3832.
