Minutes+10.06.09

**10/6/2009, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, EBU1-4309 ** Maria Cardona, //Internal Outreach Officer// Justin Huang, //External// //Outreach Officer//  7:00PM – 7: 1 0PM :  Eat and mingle 7:10PM – 7:25PM : Ice-breaker. Get to know your fellow committee members! - Overview of all events planned for the year and how you can get involved. a. Engineering Explorations is on 11/14/09. We bring high schoolers from all over the county to get them interested in a career in engineering. b. Girls’ Day Out happens twice, one in the winter and once in the spring, and is targeted to middle school girls. Co-hosted with SPAWAR. c. Enspire is our biggest event, during Engineers’ Week in February, and we bring around 400 8th graders to campus. d. All these events have speakers, a design competition, lab tours, campus tours, and interaction with college students. e. There’s a blood drive on Nov. 4-5, and we want your blood. f. Book drives happen every finals’ week, and we put out collection bins in Price Center. These books then go to Better World Books, an organization that funds literacy programs in underdeveloped countries. g. The San Diego Science Festival happens in March of 2010, and it’s a he festival in Balboa Park. We need a demonstration. h. We also go to schools to publicize our free and highly beneficial events i. Sample agenda for Engineering Explorations. Most of our events are structured similarly. j. For all the major events we divide into subcommittees, as explained below. k. UCSD CREATE – tutoring at Lincoln HG l.  Lego Robotics clubs in middle schools m. Advertise and participate in other orgs’ events and programs. n. Suggest activities! Take charge; outreach is all about you and what you would like to do. - Saturday, November 14th, 2009, 10am-3pm - Split into sub-committees a.  Publicity – Let everyone know about Engineering Explorations! Tell the schools and the media (both in the Jacobs School and outside UCSD) about the event to get everyone out there. b. Design Competition – Decide and test what the kids get to build, and run the design competition during Engineering Explorations. Must be fun and hands-on; materials should preferably be cheap. c.  Volunteers – In charge of creating volunteer tasks and recruiting volunteers; without them this event can’t happen. d. Logistics – Organize campus tours, lab tours, food, and groups. The subcommittee in charge of battle plans. e. Speakers – Decide and contact who gets to speak at Engineering Explorations! Find and contact them, including panelists. - You can join any of these at any time, and be in multiple ones – you can also change subcommittees from event to event. - Tasks will be posted on the wiki, so feel free to work there and use the discussion board. - San Diego Science Festival (Spring 2010): We need a demo. Bring your ideas next week! - T-shirt designs! We need an outreach committee t-shirt, so if you have design skills, bring them in! - Don’t forget to check our website (http://tescoutreach.wikispaces.com/) for minutes, tasks, and anything you would like to know about Outreach!
 * TESC Outreach Committee Meeting Minutes **
 * 7:25PM – 7:35PM**: So what is Outreach?
 * 7:35PM – 7:55PM**: Our first event: Engineering Explorations!
 * 7:55PM – 8:00PM**: Next week