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- Requested event and presentation organization
- Specifically organization of an event entails: finding AguaClara members to run the event, contacting the event requester and asking if there are specifics that they would like us to cover, verifying the date and adding to the upcoming events page and the AguaClara calendar, designing a power point presentation to use, organizing the demo plant (verify all parts are included, chemicals, clay), determining what hardware will be available at the site of the presentation i.e. computer with overhead projector, or will the AguaClara presenter have to bring the projector and computer, or will the presentation be strictly verbal with the use of non-digital visuals
- Presentations ideally will consist of two team members, one experienced AguaClara
veteran and one new team member that has never given the presentation before - Great AguaClara public speaking veterans would include Nicole Cecci, Sara Schwetschenau, Sara Long, Ian (the snake) Tse, Jacobe Jacob Van Almelo, Matt Hurst, and Scott Freyburger just to name a few
- Search for departments, classes, and specifically professors that we could pitch the idea that an AguaClara presentation would benefit there their work and ours
- When the above departments, classes, or professors are identified, organize the event
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- Organization of public relations events here on campus
- Keeping the Public Relations Working Group focused and on task
- Create a list of people that would be educational speakers for AguaClara classes next semester
- Organization of Cornell Club presentations
- Determine where everyone in AguaClara is from (state, country...)
- Determine location of AguaClara alumni
- Determine if there are Cornell clubs in that areas and then attempt to organize presentations at the clubs during school breaks (spring break is coming up)
- PR for the four communities community's plant
- Find out when the inauguration date is
- Ask Tamar and John to take lots of good pictures
- Write up an article and investigate submitting it to the the eNewsletter
- Contact the Cornell Chronical and get a piece done on the plant inauguration
- Contact Cornell Press Relations
- Search for other water forums or publications to contact about the four communities event
- When writing about the water plant stress that it will be servicing 15,000 people
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- Logging significant AguaClara events (four communities community's plant inauguration...) throughout the semester and creating a alumni newsletter to send out at the end of the semester
- Looking into whether the alumni news letter should be print or electronic
- If print is chosen, coronation with Chi-Chi on a design
- Locate the alumni email list that is located on the AguaClara Gmail account
- Organizing a future AguaClara student team member list serve
- This would consist of sending a welcome email with the option of leaving the list serve if desired
- The list of students names (ask Scott for the list) and email addresses should be organized neatly in the AguaClara Gmail account: Sign in name: CUAguaClara
- Determine the date for course registration and send an update/reminder email about the progress of AguaClara to perspective students
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- Using his boundless energy to motivate and encourage the rest of the team
- Organization of cross listing AguaClara at Cornell
- Answer questions that new team members may have about past Outreach events
- Organizing locations around campus, including outside of engineering school for posters to be placed, specifically the admissions office
- Includes getting permission from different departments to have posters placed in there buildings
- Having posters printed to appropriate size, use Chi-Chi as a resource, she knows posters
- assist Narayana in AguaClara forum design
- Specifically organizing the class discussion on Feburary February 23 on the constitution
- in charge of placing AguaClara redesigned fliers around campus and around town
- Place fliers and both Green Star locations, Wegmans, Public buildings, and maybe on Tcat buses or Tcat bus stop locations
- Organize a presentation with Min for the Ithaca Echo Village
- Title it sustainable water treatment and they will love it, maybe they would help organize a fund raiser
- Look into different fund raising opportunities outside of Cornell, locally in Ithaca (Churches...etc.)
- Pilot pant:
- Clear detailed operation instructions
- Calibrate the flow rates, label on plant what hole or height corresponds to which flow rate
- Determine appropriate amount of dosing based upon incoming flow and clay concentration, to form readily settling floccs
- Clean the demo plant so it is ready for AguaClara presentations
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