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We have some great speakers lined up for this year’s event.\u00a0 View the flyer with more details here\u00a0 and register for the event here!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li> On November 4th, the Cedar Rapids Section held a dinner to celebrate our section’s 80th Anniversary! \u00a0Meredith Godar was presented with the Ted Hunter award. \u00a0The Cedar Rapids Section Ted Hunter Award is given in recognition of outstanding service in furthering the purpose and objectives ...<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>See All Recent Life Members Posts<\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On November 4th, the Cedar Rapids Section held a dinner to celebrate our section’s 80th Anniversary! \u00a0Meredith Godar was presented with the Ted Hunter award. \u00a0The Cedar Rapids Section Ted Hunter Award is given in recognition of outstanding service in furthering the purpose and objectives …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":535,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4120\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":285,"date":"2018-04-06T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/?page_id=285"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:24:06","slug":"procon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/r4.ieee.org\/cedar-rapids\/events\/procon\/","title":{"rendered":"ProCon"},"content":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n Cedar Rapids IEEE ProCon 2027<\/strong><\/p>\n We’re taking a break for 2026, and hoping to bring ProCon back to Cedar Rapids in 2027.<\/p>\n ProCon History<\/strong><\/p>\n IEEE ProCon (Pro<\/b>fessional Development Con<\/b>ference) has been offered annually since 1998 (with a few years off post-COVID) by the Cedar Rapids Section of IEEE. 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