Engineers Without Borders

General Meeting 10/08/09

October 9, 2009 at 3:34 pm | In Meeting Minutes | Comments Off

Announcements:

• Doughnut fundraiser will be next Monday outside of Rodgers hall from 7:45 onward
• There will be hourly shifts

• El Salvador banquet: Brad/Katie
• It will be Fri. November 6^th
• We have fliers if anyone wants to put them up
• We also have mailbox stuffers that need to be distributed – if you are interested talk to Brad
• Most of all we need contacts – anyone else who might come
• They can send you invitation or send it themselves
• A sign up sheet for banquet work next week
• A banquet contact email is on mailbox fliers

Habitat for Humanity volunteering is this Saturday from 9-3

• Contact Nick if you are interested

Workshops

• membership dues are required to come

The El Salvador travel applications is available on the website

Presentation: What to expect from EWB beyond travel

• Conferences: exposed to new ideas, people, skills, great speakers.
• There are also a lot of local events
• Skill building workshops, network with people, professors, make friends, interesting presenters
• Makes you a more interesting person
• Professional experience
• Work opportunities

breakouts:

• El Salvador
• kenya
• PR/fundraising
• workshop brainstorming – what do you want to learn from workshops?