General Announcements
* Presentation/Talk by the EWB travel team last Wednesday, was successful
*Breaking Ground article in progress
* EWB in progress of applying to URA
*Activity Fair - April 13th
*T-shirts have been ordered, should be coming ~ March 8
*Get involved in Quadmania?
*Send test kits to Eric Smith
Committee Updates
*Grant Writing: grant narrative in progress
* Research:
- Meeting next Tuesday
- Going to decide which alternative we are choosing
- Setting up matrix to make decision
Reflection of this Semester
* More people are coming, joining, getting involved in our committee meetings
*Becoming more established (without websites, our chapter in the EWB-USA website)
* Very involved professional engineer, Dwane Wilding
Things to Improve/Goals
* Increase visibility around campus
* Getting articles in the retriever —> interview with travel team, learn more about the culture/people of Isongo, Kenya
*Getting more defined roles, structure in our group
*Update EWB website on myumbc —> put meeting times available
*Set up a Flickr for EWB
*Committees show progress, notes on website —> every 2 months, on the time line
*Organize tumblr notes
*3-5 minute video of our meetings, to promote EWB
*Work on EWB poster for URA
*Try to collaborate with other non-profit organizations
*Have a linkedin, get more networking (for PR/IT Committee)
Ideas for Meeting Structure
* At the beginning of meeting, the new people come to the front (talk to Zach, get caught up); the members already in the committee go in the back and discuss among themselves
* Have new people ask their questions, introduce themselves AFTER the meeting
* Regroup at the end of the meeting, summarize findings/goals, etc.
*Use overhead to show agenda/goals for each meeting
Definition of Positions
*Research: Hollie Adejumo
* Grant Writing/Fundraising - Dalton Hughes
* Meeting Coordinator - Rosalind Ramsey
*Secretary - Madison Bondoc
- Meeting notes, EWB GBM emails
* Co-Presidents - Chris Mullen & Zach
