Outreah Meeting Minutes

Spring 2009 Minutes

2.27.09

Working Group: PR

Min Bu

what i did this week

-contact/recruit people for Bridges to Community event
-helped Bradon with his article
-write/modify BioExpo abstract
-recruit people to present at BioExpo
-recruit presenter for Rockland county NY during spring break
-contact the SWE person about event details

Next week

-Meet with your very talented Outreach team supervisor tomorrow and learn about the demo plant. How to put it together, what pieces are needed, and where it is located in the AguaClara lab. Then organize AguaClara team teach in that would inform the whole team about the demo plant and how to use it.-Contact Brandon and ask the names of three professors or departments on campus that you could contact and ask if we could give a presentation in one of there classes in the near future. Then contact the persons and organize them.

Chi-Chi
What I did this week:- Discussed with Scott the goals of the pamphlet/brochure- Created a mock-up for the Wiki in Photoshop- Designed a header- Presented the Wiki mock up to Monroe, Nicole, and Scott; exchanged suggestions for improvement
What I will do this week:- Create examples of montage headers and show them to Monroe, Nicole, and Scott- Create mock up of Wiki (front page only)- Create mock up for pamphlet/brochure based on previous one- Organize "children" Wiki pages into 1 comprehensive site map to better understand links among intra-site pages (.doc)- TO PUT ON HOLD: compressing

Working Group: Funding

Joe Redondo
Things done:
-edited Tech Awards Grant Submission and sent it to Monroe for approval
-continued editing 15 page packet, should finish this week
-asked Nayarana for budget info from IAF Grant (he got it to me) I am now planning on compiling this and sending it to Monroe this week

Things for this week
-got the Tech Awards back from Monroe, I am sending it Trang to submit
-Compiling list of budgetary info that Naryana sent me and forwarding to Monroe
-looking at Unicef and UNHCR for possible grants
-compiling a list of possible grant submissions for this semester
-emailing Monroe about tax status and Pilot Plant budget (Narayana suggested that I speak to the plant operator, he will email me that contact info.

Jacob
I confirmed that The Poster is Hung up.Helped to give a presentation for Bridges to Communities.Made new contacts at the presentation of potential team membersGathered new information about forming a constitution.I plan to make a new draft of the constitutionI will: print fliersprint pamphletsput pamphlets in HO admissionsDistribute pamphlets and fliers to team

Trang
Last week:

• Still waiting for the edited version for the Tech Award nomination.- Looked on the web for the list of the alumni
• Looked into how to create a list
  serve for new members Find out the date of pre-enroll
  This week:
• Will send out Tech Award as soon as Joe forward to me.- Put up list of alumni
• Attempt to contact alumni using their cornell emails
• Create a list-serve for prospective students.- Look at grants,