La Crosse Area History

ANNUAL CRC REPORT - 2026

Chapter #115


CHAPTER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

  • July 2025 ASHRAE Night at the Ballpark
  • August 2025 Moon Tunes Picnic
  • Sept 2025 Golf Outing
  • Oct 2025 Virtual Workshop:  Rewiring America
  • Nov 2025 DL: Building Services Systems for Building Decarbonization
  • Dec 2025 Heat up your Holidays:  SSHP Seminar
  • Jan 2026 Standards, Codes and TCs, Oh my!
  • Feb 2026 2026 Winter Conf Highlights and Engagement Session
  • Feb 2026 e-Week
  • Feb 2026 DOTH
  • Mar 2026 YEA Connect and Networking Lunch
  • Apr 2026 Chapter Anniversary Celebration Dinner
  • May 2026 Cold Climate Heat Pump Performance

CHAPTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

  •  Submitted Award Projects
    • None
  • List DL visits
    • Dan Nall, “Building Services Systems for Building Decarbonization”

MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION

  •  BOGO MP Events in December and April

  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
Area-Assigned Members (without students) 136 138 132
Chapter Dues Paying Members (CDPM) 105 108 95
New Members to Date (AAM) 3 6 6
Members Delinquent to Date (AAM) 9 0 0

  • Attendance at programs has been fairly consistent over the past few years, averaging around 30 members.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

  • E-Week STEM event:  6th Annual
    230 students and 50 volunteers – lab tour, robot car activity, engineering concept focused presentations
  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
New Student Members 0 0 0
Student Branches 0 0 0
Student Meetings 0 0 0
Students Attending Winter Meeting 0 0 0

RESEARCH PROMOTION

  • Golf Outing September 2025 $4684.73
  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
Chapter Goal $11232 $11232 $11500
Total Dollars Collected $6,069* $6,943 $3,500


YEA (Young engineers in ashrae)

  • List YEA Events
    • July 2025:  ASHRAE Night at the Ballpark
    • February 2026:  2026 Winter Conference Recap and Networking Event
    • March 2026: YEA Connect and Network Lunch
    • April 2026:  Chapter Anniversary
  • 27 YEA Members – almost 20% of the Chapter!
  • Lost chair in the fall, new chair joined at the end of the year and is planning for success in 2026-2027


Government Affairs

  • GAC met 2X over the course of the Chapter Year
  • GAC Chair Andrew Wiegand attended DOTH

  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
# of GAC Activities 1 0 0
# of Officials Identified 2 0 0


chapter HISTORY

  • Highlights
    PAOE Honor Roll 2003-2004, 2008-2016, 2019-21. STAR: 2003, 2013-2016, 2019-21, 2024-now
    PAOE 1997-1998, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2005-2006, 2007-2008
    History Display    2011-2014
    Membership Promotion     1992-1994, 1998-1999, 2010-2014 (First Place) 2014-15 (Second Place)
    Award of Excellence 1972-73, 1974-75, 1975-76, 1976-77
  • History project: Not this year
  2025-26 2024-25 2023-24
Chapter Display at CRC YES YES YES


COMMUNICATIONS


Highlights

  • Golf outing is a great way to connect with retirees and enjoy the day.  Nancy Burgett attends and mingles with folks there too!



  • e-Week draws students out to learn about engineering.  Fun way to engage with middle schoolers - although some may be there because 'my mom made me do it'.  Others are quite engaged.
      • Chapter Anniversary Celebration brought out 8 life members - those personal invitations go a long way!

        DL Visit:

        Anniversary Celebration Dinner:


success stories

  • Golf outing was executed well - raised over $4600 for the Lee Burgett Memorial Scholarship
  • Highly attended "Anniversary Dinner" including  8 Life Members, YEA and non-members in attendance
  • GAC has been rebuilding since we lost Chris Hsieh - Andrew has really stepped up to help get it moving again with attendance at DOTH.
  • E-Week was a great event planned by a very new Student Activities Chair - Aziz Bhetasiwala

lessons learned

  • If I had this year to do over...
    • We'd plan our DLs sooner so we can have dinner events which increases attendance
    • ...and work with nearby chapters to share DLs
  • Improve the pipeline for chair and leadership positions
    • Some left or had personal reasons to step down so we need bigger bench to pull from