To keep our Society active, further efforts are recommended to recruit members. As an example, an action plan for our Americas Region was proposed at the Kyoto meeting by Professor Paul Ayers, our National Secretary of United States. Briefly described, a working group will:
- Develop promotional material highlighting the new ISTVS and building on our great website, the Resource Initiative headed by Alex Keen, our affiliation with FISITA, and other great activities ISTVS is doing.
- Encourage Americas Region members to invite their professional colleagues to join the Society, to submit papers for publication in our Journal, and to plan to attend the Prague conference in 2019 and the Montreal conference in 2020.
- Initiate an “ISTVS Terrain Vehicle Challenge” to premier at the Montreal conference in 2020.
We welcome Paul's work in building a strong Americas Region membership. I hope this proposal might inspire similar action plans for other regions.