GCC STEM - Meeting Minutes

STEM Club Meeting Minutes

Minutes
October 4, 2002

Deciding on the projects to undertake - Participating in a math competition and creating the robot/other competition were rejected. The accepted projects were: assisting with Science Olympia for high school students , math problem of the month, mentoring high school students. The members did not want to tutor 6-8 graders because they didn't want to be babysitters. In addition, tutoring at a high school level would bring more students to GCC and therefore directly benefit our GCC campus and our club.
Chipping in for pizza every Friday. - Members decided that the club will chip in only whenever the members feel like eating food.
Is everyone satisfied with the club's name STEM? - This name was found to be the general name for the science classrooms @ GCC and therefore it is widely recognized. Since we need recognition and since nobody had any ideas for another name, STEM was accepted.
Designing emblem for the club - Members agreed that a drawing of a brain with a brain stem, and the name of the club would be the perfect symbol for our organization. Pat volunteered to design the requested symbol.
Change meetings to a later time. - Maggie proposed on behalf of Thomas Jaramillo if the members would prefer to change the meeting time to a later hour. Unfortunately, everybody defended the status quo.

Submission of the paperwork to Student Government to become an official club
Contacting high schools to see if they would like to have STEM tutor their students.

The club decided that once we become an official club, next we need to take the following steps:

Get more info about Science Olympia
Get names of students who want to be involved in Science olympia
Use flyers and e-mail to announce the math problem of the month
Ask businesses for gifts/gift certificates to pay for awards for the winner of the math solver OR to pitch in.
Visit high schools: Ironvood*, Glendale*, Apollo, Moon Valley, Thunderbird
Divide STEM in groups to go to those different high schools/every 2 weeks???
Raise money fund raising
Raise money by offering paid tutoring @GCC (set a flat rate per session/per sem.)=sent flyers to high schools announcing that such sessions are taking place.