Events

We are slightly short of our Family Giving Tree goal of 100 gifts.  Deadline to bring unwrapped gifts is Dec. 10th - bring to club meeting. 
*Make shopping easy and purchase on-line.

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You can select a person, age, and even gift if you change the search restriction.  
For example: Zenaida, Senior would like a new Purse With Wallet - $40

2019 FAMILY GIVING TREE WISH DRIVE: 
BUY A HOLIDAY GIFT FOR A CHILD WHO WOULD OTHERWISE NOT RECEIVE ONE
 
TWO WAYS TO PARTICIPATE THIS YEAR!
OPTION 1: 
Purchase the gift identified on your gift card(s)
Affix the card(s) to the UNWRAPPED gift(s) w painter’s tape and return 
     to Lisa Cheskin, Mike Norcia or Meghan Burton at our meetings on Nov 19th, 26th, or Dec 10th 
     or our President's Brunch on Dec 1st. 
OPTION 2: - NEW!
Don’t have time to shop?
Use Virtual Giving at: https://vtree.fgt.org/RotaryClubofLosGatos/ 

Our current club President will share an update on the latest trip to Guatemala and how the funds our club benefited the community

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Every six months we send a group of volunteers to the same site the Clinica Maxeña, to provide medical and surgical eye care over a one week period.
We are volunteer ophthalmologists and operating room personnel who provide medical and surgical eye care to an indigenous Guatemalan population. 

“Seeing Again-EyeCare Guatemala” is an ongoing medical and surgical mission project at the Clinica Maxeña in Santo Tómas La Unión, Our groups usually consist of four or five ophthalmologists, often a Stanford third year ophthalmology resident, and several nurses and surgical scrub technicians familiar with ophthalmic surgery.

Raymond J. Fisher Middle School -- Sing A Cappella is a select ensemble that meets during flex period. Auditions were required for this ensemble during spring and early fall. Sing A Cappella is the face of the choral music program and is featured in many performances outside of the normal school day. This group focus is on music written for A Cappella choirs, both traditional and modern, as well as vocal jazz. 

Students at Fisher have many different opportunities to participate in music here are a few more they offer:

Open Choir is designed to help students develop their voice and their love of singing. No experience is needed. This choir will will focus primarily on Unison and 2 part singing but may advance to 3 part SAB performance as they progress through the year. Open Choir will perform everything from Bach and Beethoven to Pentatonix and Broadway. 

Mixed Choir will continue to develop the voice as a musical instrument and will focus on proper vocal technique as well as music theory and fundamentals. This class is recommend for students with 2 years of experience in a music class. Mixed choir will focus on SAB and SATB arrangement and will sing in multiple languages. This group will also explore a wide variety of music form multiple genres throughout music history. 

Treble Choir will continue to develop the voice as a musical instrument and will focus on proper vocal technique for the treble voice. This class is recommend for students with 2 years of experience in choir or other music class. Treble choir will focus on SSA and SSAA arrangement and will sing in multiple languages. This group will also explore a wide variety of music form multiple genres throughout music history.

We dream of a more secure, engaged, and unified democracy. Out of many, we are one.

ePluribus goal is to make it insanely easy for Americans to send official messages to their representatives and Unum ID to empower them to do so as verified constituents. ePluribus and Unum ID together stop bots and meddling from wreaking havoc on in our politics.

ePluribus is a civic engagement platform that addresses problem (1) by providing a suite of tools: a mobile app, Chrome extension, and embeddable widget. These tools literally put representatives in the palm of your hand, from Trump down to your Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Unum ID is a blockchain identity platform that address problem (2) with a mobile app that lets people verify their identities and share personal data with unprecedented privacy and security. Each user’s data is stored ONLY on their device; there is literally no database. Since over 1 billion people were affected by data breaches in 2018, it’s hard to overstate how important this is.

Abstract:

In this talk, I will describe Digital Light SynthesisTM (DLS) technology, which embodies a convergence of advances in software, hardware, and material science to enable a powerful approach to 3D printing. DLS brings the digital revolution to polymer manufacturing and opens major opportunities for industrial production across diverse industries. Previously unmakeable products are already being manufactured at scale with DLS, given its combination of performance, speed, and material choice. Examples include the large-scale production of midsoles for the adidas Futurecraft 4D shoes, mass-customized dental products, next-generation football helmets by Riddell, and parts on Ford production vehicles.

Bio:

Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone co-founded Carbon in 2013 and served as the company’s CEO until being named Executive Chairman in 2019. As CEO, Joe grew Carbon from a small team of scientists and engineers into 500-person global company valued at almost $2.5 billion that is defining the digital revolution in manufacturing. In 2016 President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor in the U.S. for achievement and science.Joe maintains academic appointments at both UNC and North Carolina State University. He is one of only roughly 20 individuals elected to all three U.S. National Academies—the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Engineering. Joe currently resides in Monte Sereno, California with his wife of 30 years, Suzanne. They have two children and two grandchildren.

Ann spent her undergraduate years at the University of Michigan where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology.  Her interest in plant pathology started there but she took a five year diversion working in the field of medical diagnostics and molecular biology research.  After that long wait, she returned to plant pathology to earn a master’s degree at UC Berkeley. 

Her work has been primarily in disease diagnostics of ornamental plants, first with Soil and Plant Lab in Orange CA, and then with Nurserymen’s Exchange in Half Moon Bay.  She currently works 3/4 time at Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga as the Landscape Curator, consults privately in plant pathology and arboriculture and teaches horticultural classes at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills and Merritt College in Oakland.  One of her long time and current enjoyments is volunteering at the "Sick Plant Clinic" at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden.  She is also an active volunteer in the UCCE Master Gardener program of Santa Clara County. 

• Rotary charities & scholarship foundation 
• Provides grants for local and international world service non-profits
• Raise the Paddle for our next generation (youth programs)

• Crab, Crab, Crab, Crab
• Soup, Salad, Bread
• Pasta (vegetarian)
• Dessert

Wayne Gregori is a technologist and entrepreneur that has the rare talent of translating the complex world of Bitcoin and blockchain out of the abstract and into concrete, real world examples in a fluid and entertaining manner. He first took an interest in Bitcoin in 2014 thanks to the innovation and promise of blockchain technology (the foundational bitcoin technology). But over time he became equally interested in the potential social impact Bitcoin/blockchain might have on our human communities and on the institutions upon which society relies so heavily; government, finance (banking) and security.

Money might be the most imporant and misunderstood concept in modern society. Bitcoin and crypto currencies are at the root of a global conversation that will force the re-evaluation of the global financial system. Fiat currencies (like the dollar) have an average life of 27.5 years. Our current dollar (since we left the gold standard in 1971) is 48 years old. Bitcoin and other cytypto currencies will challenge the dollar and the banking system that underpins our financial system. This presentation covers, the history of money, social drivers behind bitcoin, explanation of how bitcoin works, and the competitive landscape of other crypto currencies.

• To increase the personal knowledge and awareness of the importance of being able to speak effectively before a group.
• To increase public knowledge of what Rotary is and does throughout the world, especially among young people.  Through this knowledge, we hope that they will learn, as we have in the past,          “He who serves best profits most.”
• To increase participation in the contest and to provide all high school contestants an opportunity to win prizes as top speaker, or runners-up, in District 5170.
  
  Four levels of competition -  prize levels:
  Club - $25 - $100
  Area  - $100 - $200
  Region - $250
  District price - $300 - $1,000
  For more information click here

If the thought of swaying palm trees, grass skirts, flower leis, and warm weather piques your interest, think about going to Honolulu, Hawaii for the RI Convention.  You’ll meet Rotarians from all over the world, hear inspiring speakers, find out about amazing Rotary projects in all the Areas of Focus, and just have a great time.  There are savings for early registration, so go to the Rotary International website for information (https://www.riconvention.org/en/honolulu/register).