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the web site http://ieee-cis.org/ edu/research/ or contact the subcommittee chair, Dr. Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier. iv) The Student Games-Based Competition subcommittee is new to the CIS. We are actively exploring new ideas to support the mission of CIS educational activities. Currently we are planning on online based competition and on-site based competition. The online version will be announced and operated virtually with solutions submitted through web site. Winners will be announced through the web site as well after a panel of experts deliberates the results. The on-site competition will take place at major CIS conferences, which may include both software and hardware solutions. The co-chairs, Lingfeng Wang and Simon Lucas, of the subcommittee will communicate with the CIS students through the CIS web site to announce new competition opportunities. v) Pre-College Activities subcommittee is also new to the CIS. Our immediate goal is to work closely with the IEEE Educational Activities Board to promote engineering in general and CIS fields of interest in particular. Our current subcommittee is led by and made up of dedicated volunteers with natural connections to and keen interest in pre-college education. We will especially champion one or two programs sponsored by the IEEE Educational Activities Board. This is also an area that we welcome CIS members worldwide to volunteer their time and expertise toward pre-college educational activities on behalf of the CIS. vi) The University Curricula subcommittee is created from scratch with a goal to provide comprehensive course modules in the areas of computational intelligence to CIS members. Our approach is to identify subjects that have broad appeal to CIS members and possibly a larger audience. Another track will develop following the lead of popular text books. In the mean time, we also solicit course materials from CIS affiliated teaching faculty. Our first goal is to collect self-contained pdf course modules. Next, we will be seeking permission and collecting video course modules. As multimedia tutorials, the course modules will be archived in the CIS Educational Repository. Contact the subcommittee chair Ke Chen if you are interested in contributing. vii) The Continuing Education subcommittee is a new creation with an emphasis on providing continuing education opportunities for practicing engineers. Our planned initiatives include: a) organizing short-term training courses and/or summer school for 1–2 weeks at a time; b) Providing seminars and workshops for 1–2 days each time; c) Producing tutorial videos with an industrial focus; and d) producing edited volumes and book series on computational intelligence to industrial application case studies. To reach our goal, the Continuing Education subcommittee led by Yaochu Jin will work closely with the Summer Schools, Multimedia Tutorials, and Education Repository subcommittees. viii) The Educational Repository subcommittee is conceived to be at the center of the CIS educational activities in the sense that it will interact with almost all educational subcommittees. As discussed earlier, we will be creating a comprehensive, easy-to-use archive for users to access the state-of-the-art educational materials in the CIS fields of interest. To achieve this goal, the subcommittee chaired by Gwenn Volkert will be working closely with the CIS web master. The archive will be designed to host educational materials of different format and from different media. It will also include a search function for users to access our repository by searching key words, subject area, author name, or other prominent features. In summary, the VPE office is new, so are many of our educational activities. We look forward to working with CIS members and to providing quality service to CIS members. If you have any questions regarding any of our educational activities or would like to just find out more information, please feel free to contact me or respective subcommittee chairs. Make sure to visit us at http://ieee-cis.org/edu/.