Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 3/10/12 Minutes
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BE UG Board Meeting
3-10-12
Student Center, 5th Floor
6:00pm
- FPOP
- Jenny – GoogleDoc for FPOP Counselor Application
- Why do you want to be a counselor?
- Why would you make an ideal counselor?
- What kind of non BE-related activity/Icebreaker would you propose?
- Etc.
- Fun Question
- Jenny – contact the office to see when we will be getting student applications for the FPOP
- Budget - $3000, 4/5 days, 16 people
- Food – 2 meals (Breakfast/Lunch) every day
- Breakfast: $5/person
- Lunch: $10/person
- $1500 total for just breakfast and lunch
- ~$300 for dinner
- Fun activities: movie, baseball game
- MIT has tickets that they give out, through the CAC (~$46 online for baseball game tickets)
- Food – 2 meals (Breakfast/Lunch) every day
- Long-term activity (making something tangible by the end) – constructive activity
- Talk to Natalie/20.309 people
- Optical tweezers?
- Jenny – GoogleDoc for FPOP Counselor Application
- Associate Advising – $400/term
- 12 advisors, each has 4-5 people
- Put more money with the hopes that people will take advantage of it
- Currently, the program is not highly utilized
- Put more money with the hopes that people will take advantage of it
- Put less money into the program because its not used
- Decision: keep the budget at $400
- Board Meetings
- We do not need food for our own personal meetings but can have food if we open the meetings to the general undergrad population
- $50 for food expenses – will do this ~2-3 times
- Have study breaks after major exams/projects
- Spring Semester: 20.310, 20.330. 20.111,
- Fall Semester: 20.110, 20.320, and random one
- Study breaks should take place in the lounge
- 1 study break/class/term
- $300/study break – 6 study breaks total
- What kind of food do we want? Pizza is overdone but Cosi sandwiches are expensive
- Budget money into maintaining the lounge
- Buy cups/utensils/packets for the coffee machine/snacks (go to Costco)
- $300/semester for lounge budget
- Esha – e-mail out about lounge improvements – do people have suggestions?
- Dinner with professors
- 2/semester with approximately 10 people per dinner
- $400/semester
- Mixer across all grades
- $500/semester if we do dinner at a nice restaurant (~60 students
- Pair them up? Eg. sophomore with senior
- $150/semester for movie mixer (just need popcorn)
- put wiggle room in budget (do we need a license)
- $500/semester if we do dinner at a nice restaurant (~60 students
- Merchandise
- Try to give mugs/water bottles for $1
- $150 for mugs/water bottles
- could make a study break around giving them out
- T-shirts (won’t be subsidized) – send out a form for interest
- Try to give mugs/water bottles for $1
- Freshman open house
- Get Toscanini’s or pizza and get a professor to talk about what it is like to work in the course 20 profession
- $300-$400
- CPW – need to get a booth at the majors fair
- Last year they gave out miniature sharpies with BE on them
- $50 for BE merchandise to give out
- Get 50mL conical, put our logo on them, fill them up with M&Ms
- Grad School/Med School/Industry Talks – $300
- Elections – $400
