International Project Meeting | Thursday | 10.22.15
We had a meeting, on October 22 from 12:30 to 2 to discuss potential international projects and to give new members a sense of what goes on in the club. The meeting started out with a presentation in which Ashita, our international project leader, explained the objectives of our club to motivate everyone to get involved. After that, Jillian, Rodrigo, and Jian, members of the project committee, described the importance of researching international projects. They reminded us that we should be aware of the resources in the communities, as well as the safety of the country and how far it is from us. City College will not let our club go to countries with travel advisories, and our budget will not enable us to travel very far to complete engineering projects. Furthermore, they explained that we should always get to know the members of the community before starting our project. That will make us aware of who to contact and who we can trust in the community.
After the presentation, Tala, Kevin, and Kseniya described the functions of the public relations and finance committees, so that the new members could figure out which team to join. They are the event manager, a member of the finance committee, and the leader of the finance committee, respectively. Then, everyone split into the two teams: finance and public relations. Those of us on the public relations committee discussed the Halloween bake sale coming up on October 29th. We also discussed other ways of reaching out to people, such as posting more content on social media. Those of us who were on the finance committee discussed ways of improving funding and raising money through new methods. As engineers, we were thinking outside the box, considering several unconventional solutions. Keep an eye out for new things going on!