This year the positions of President, 2VP East, 2VP Central, 2VP Midwest, 2VP West and 2VP International are up for election.

We’ll open the nomination process on 15 January 2025 and the nomination period will run through 28 February 2025.  Voting will run from 1-15 March 2025, with the election results announced on 16 March 2025. 

If you would like to stand for a position, or want to nominate someone else, please post the nomination on the AMPS Officer Elections 2025 discussion group on the AMPS Website.

The roles of each position are:

President

• Presides over all meetings of the Executive Board when called.
• Makes all national level policy decisions after due liaison with the members of the Executive Board.
• Monitors all activities of the Society via the various officers, appointees, and coordinators.

Second Vice Presidents

• Participate in all requisite meetings of the Executive Board.
• Nominate, with the President, which members shall form the Competition Committee that is responsible for the formulation, proliferation, and presentation of rules governing competitions. This group sets the standards for classification and judging model entries.
• Ensure timely dissemination of rules and competition guideline packages to participant members in their respective regions for use in AMPS-related modeling competitions.
• The Second Vice Presidents represent different geographic areas of the world.
• There shall be at least four Second Vice Presidents: at least three representing areas of the United States and at least one representing areas outside the United States.
• The President, with the approval of the Executive Board, may appoint additional Second Vice Presidents or eliminate Second Vice President positions, from time to time, as the President may find appropriate and useful to coordinate the activities of local and affiliate chapters, and such other matters as the President and the Executive Board may delegate to the Second Vice Presidents.
• Any appointed Second Vice Presidents shall serve their terms until the next election for their positions, as set forth in Article 3.c of the Bylaws.
• As is possible, at least one second vice president should attend each major show to ensure compliance with national standards, or at least a reasonable attempt at meeting national standards by the judging committee at that show.