Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 4/21/11 Minutes
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BE UG Board Meeting
4-21-11
BE Loungs
7:30pm
FPOP
- Didn't like about FPOP last year
- Long Lectures
- Scavenger Hunt in Boston
- Red Sox game not worth it -- raining
- Liked about FPOP last year
- Free Food
- Museum of Science
- Boston Scavenger Hunt
- MIT Campus Scavenger Hunt -- important to orient people to the campus
- Counselors!
- Possible Lecturers -- 5 or 6 Lecturers (around 1 a day)
- Manalis -- talk about careers again
- Hamad-Schifferli
- Lauffenberger
- Grozinsky
- Ed Boyden
- Mucus/Cartilage Lady
- Cancer-Stem Cell Lady
- Cap lectures at an hour (2 max)
- Lectures and Lab Tours Separately -- don't overburden anyone
- Lab tours more hands on this year -- need to get safety certified
- Herr -- in Media Lab, BioMed research -- good at giving tours/do it all the time
- Lab Activities
- Hands-on lab spread over 2 days would be sufficient -- with Nathalie?
- A not wet-work based lab
- Industry Tours
- plants?? Greenhouse tour -- Novartis has one?? something different
- Gingko -- small scale success story
- Amgen
- visited mass-spec place last year (long bus ride and pretty boring)
- Nice to compare lab versus industry
- Five hours of academically focused events instead of eight hours
- Budget
- Around three thousand dollars last year -- will be similar this year
- Large amount of students declared BE after FPOP -- good use of money!
- Must fill in head of the department about how the FPOP went
- 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
- Still want to do breakfast?
- relatively cheep compared to other meals
- was nice last year
- conclusion: do again
- Made students arrive really early last year -- make them arrive at 9:00am instead of 8:00am
- Fun things we could do
- bonding events after academic portion
- Sports event
- Go out to dinner (good to have a big dinner on the last day -- maybe a BBQ if weather permits, reserve Kresge pits)
- play soccer/frisbee/volleyball (beach volleyball court/sand at EC)
- Luau
Inter-Grade Mixer/Networking Event
- Not April 29, May 6 instead from 4:00-5:00
- 20.109 lab is that day from 12:00-5:00 -- can we extend the event past 5:00?
- FPOP Counselors have to go!
- Should be a nice event!
- Professors will be there and students from other grades
- Ask professors to make announcements in their classes
- Publicize Well -- tell your friends
- In Stata -- 4th floor common area
- Informal atmosphere
- Need to figure out food
- appetizers and mini sandwiches
- Rebecca's cafe
- Milk-street cafe
- Sebastian's (kind of expensive)
- E-mail Cathy and see what would be best -- also ask her if we can get servers