Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 4/21/11 Minutes

BE UG Board Meeting 4-21-11 BE Loungs 7:30pm

FPOP
 * 1) Didn't like about FPOP last year
 * 2) *Long Lectures
 * 3) *Scavenger Hunt in Boston
 * 4) *Red Sox game not worth it -- raining
 * 5) Liked about FPOP last year
 * 6) *Free Food
 * 7) *Museum of Science
 * 8) *Boston Scavenger Hunt
 * 9) *MIT Campus Scavenger Hunt -- important to orient people to the campus
 * 10) *Counselors!
 * 11) Possible Lecturers -- 5 or 6 Lecturers (around 1 a day)
 * 12) *Manalis -- talk about careers again
 * 13) *Hamad-Schifferli
 * 14) *Lauffenberger
 * 15) *Grozinsky
 * 16) *Ed Boyden
 * 17) *Mucus/Cartilage Lady
 * 18) *Cancer-Stem Cell Lady
 * 19) *Cap lectures at an hour (2 max)
 * 20) Lectures and Lab Tours Separately -- don't overburden anyone
 * 21) *Lab tours more hands on this year -- need to get safety certified
 * 22) *Herr -- in Media Lab, BioMed research -- good at giving tours/do it all the time
 * 23) Lab Activities
 * 24) *Hands-on lab spread over 2 days would be sufficient -- with Nathalie?
 * 25) *A not wet-work based lab
 * 26) Industry Tours
 * 27) *plants?? Greenhouse tour -- Novartis has one?? something different
 * 28) *Gingko -- small scale success story
 * 29) *Amgen
 * 30) *visited mass-spec place last year (long bus ride and pretty boring)
 * 31) Nice to compare lab versus industry
 * 32) Five hours of academically focused events instead of eight hours
 * 33) Budget
 * 34) *Around three thousand dollars last year -- will be similar this year
 * 35) *Large amount of students declared BE after FPOP -- good use of money!
 * 36) Must fill in head of the department about how the FPOP went
 * 37) Don't know if we'll be getting an increase in the number of students allowed to participate -- last year's amount (16) was a good number
 * 38) Still want to do breakfast?
 * 39) *relatively cheep compared to other meals
 * 40) *was nice last year
 * 41) *conclusion: do again
 * 42) Made students arrive really early last year -- make them arrive at 9:00am instead of 8:00am
 * 43) Fun things we could do
 * 44) *bonding events after academic portion
 * 45) *Sports event
 * 46) *Go out to dinner (good to have a big dinner on the last day -- maybe a BBQ if weather permits, reserve Kresge pits)
 * 47) *play soccer/frisbee/volleyball (beach volleyball court/sand at EC)
 * 48) *Luau

Inter-Grade Mixer/Networking Event
 * 1) Not April 29, May 6 instead from 4:00-5:00
 * 2) *20.109 lab is that day from 12:00-5:00 -- can we extend the event past 5:00?
 * 3) FPOP Counselors have to go!
 * 4) Should be a nice event!
 * 5) Professors will be there and students from other grades
 * 6) Ask professors to make announcements in their classes
 * 7) Publicize Well -- tell your friends
 * 8) In Stata -- 4th floor common area
 * 9) Informal atmosphere
 * 10) Need to figure out food
 * 11) *appetizers and mini sandwiches
 * 12) *Rebecca's cafe
 * 13) *Milk-street cafe
 * 14) *Sebastian's (kind of expensive)
 * 15) *E-mail Cathy and see what would be best -- also ask her if we can get servers