On November 14, 2018, SHyNE Resource met for their annual meeting. Meeting highlights included discussion of the considerable growth in usage in the past year, Year 3, in which there was a 9% increase over Year 2 with a total growth of over 40% since the beginning of the NNCI grant. New initiatives were also discussed, such as the the iNANO consortium to bring regional academic and government nano centers together and the first 3 awards granted in the SEED funding initiative. The advisory committee meeting also discussed increasing the impact to regional academic users.