Officer Meeting Minutes 3/11/17
- Call to Order
- How is the semester going?
- Round table discussion on how each officer thinks the semester is going
- Suggest Ideas for ideas to improve us for the rest of the semester
- Discussed how to keep members engaged, and improve attendance
- Use labs to excite members about chemistry
- Presentations to show Schrenk Society’s value
- Sharing files and experiences to make members feel connected
- Earth Day Ideas
- Talk about stereoisomers
- Natural pH indicators, cabbage and hydrangeas
- Discussion of the rest of the semester’s meetings
- Have a meeting to discuss advising
- Earth Day prep
- Ferrofluid lab
- Elections and earth day reflections
- Suggest ideas for better operation in future semesters
- Let general chemistry students know about the tutoring help they can get from Schrenk
- Do something exciting to keep members interested after the first meeting
- Community outreach/service, tutoring and events for local schools, Consider working with other clubs (iGEM, AsChE)
- Points to highlight and possible solutions:
- Attendance:
- Have two meetings/special meetings for ACS speakers and labs to increase overall attendance
- Use afternoon to do labs and presentation
- Use evening to discuss Schrenk Society topics
- Outreach:
- Goal: campus should know who we are
- Make people know that we are open to everyone
- Make students aware that we are the student section of the ACS
- Choose a consistent name to refer to ourselves as
- Schrenk Society may not get the point across
- Consider calling ourselves ACS to students, check with local ACS
- Participation:
- How to get people to commit
- Show people the value of Schrenk (professional advice, labs, advice from older students)
- Let students know we are open to everyone, especially chemistry related fields
- T-Shirts, ACS logo, maybe do brewer science or kaleidoscope
- Include T-shirt price in dues
- Close