Minutes+5.3.10

Justin Wong, //Internal Outreach Officer// Matthew Borger, //External// //Outreach Officer//
 * TESC Outreach Committee Meeting Minutes **
 * 5/3/2010, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Jacobs Hall, Room 4309 **


 * 6:30PM – 6:45PM:** General announcements
 * Food for thought; come get some!
 * Re-introductions: you guys know who we are, but we'll do it anyway
 * TESC elections went well
 * These TESC positions are still open: VP External, DECaF chair, Professional Development, Derby External Relations
 * If you would like to be nominated for these positions, talk to us or e-mail Jack Ly ( jkly@ucsd.edu )
 * Book drive for Spring quarter is coming up -- more information on this in the not so distant future!

The notes that Justin had typed up during the meeting/discussion are below.
 * 6:45PM – 7:30PM:** Open discussion -- what would you like to see in Outreach for next year?

Website Management · Editing the outreach page manually – painful! TESC’s Outreach page was up to date but became too tedious

How to attract more people from Outreach for next year? · Make sure that members know that their time at Outreach is official · Make meetings exciting, not informational and boring! · Themes, brainstorming for a design competition · Plan a good date for Engineering Explorations, Enspire (make sure it doesn’t conflict with ACT, SAT, dances, etc.)

Engineering Explorations · Grouped people by interest last year

SCSE Seismic Outreach – a different model of how an Outreach event can be held · Visit schools every two weeks, teaching about building sound structures · Knex kits · Competition, tours on campus

Outside campus · Doing Lego Robotics competitions; could get others interested to participate in Outreach · A project that incorporates different aspects of engineering

Specialize as an advisory committee · Get other orgs to host their own outreach events with their specialties, and helping to cater for any resources that may be needed · Depends on the organization though, as well as number of people actively participating in the org and whether there is enough funds and support · Funding an entire event for a student org? · Competition that awards grants – grand prize: get your event paid for in its entirety

Get the details out for everyone – such as matching funds

Other Ideas · Engineering Olympiad? Something similar to Science Olympiad? · A shift in the committee to do design competitions? Offload more outreach-ish events consisting of lab tours and research to student orgs? · Give high schools in SoCal area a chance to design something, couple months timeframe. (Video and presentation/documentation) If good, a finals competition can be held at UCSD · Goldberg project competition · Long term challenge + short-term challenges (on day of competition)

We need a clear goal of what to accomplish, what we want them to know as they walk away from the Outreach event. Cool ideas that help to solve the problems we have as an engineering community.

Look into doing events that appeal to a broader audience, getting people who had not considered engineering as a worthwhile discipline

Magic --> Science

Need more people in engineering!

Teamwork, design, build, get inspired by doing it – and getting sucked into it! Making people feel like an engineer and having fun doing it!

Sally Ride as an EE event speaker?