EGSA Meetings will be held the second Monday of every month (during the school year) after seminar (12:30pm) Meeting location TBA

EGSA Meeting April 9th

12:30 PM Gardner Hall, Room 4302

Minutes Taken by Lena Guisewite

Voting Members Present: Jonathan Cammack, Lena Guisewite, Angela Bucci, Yvonne Matos, Sam Marshall, Adam Dale, David Bednar, Stephanie Gorski, Jessica Houle, Sriyanka Lahiri, Andrew Ernst, Colin Funaro, Virna Saenz

Quorum is met by the presence of 5 officers and 5 voting members (Article V, Section III of EGSA Constitution)

Faculty Representative: none

Announcements:

Vote for the Mike Duke Seminar Topic here

Send Lena any Student Handbook updates/additions/suggestions

Volunteers for MoNS Research Center Grand Opening on Apr. 21^st Needed- Email Stephanie

Volunteers for the Durham Science Museum “Butterfly Bash” on May 5th needed- Email Jessica Houle

Polo Shirts are in! Make sure to pick yours up at Colin’s office at Gardner 3309

Officer Reports

President: Jonathan Cammack

Faculty Meeting: nothing was discussed really that affects us. Main topic was the performance report by university, which uses cryptic math and statistics to report our under-performance. Because of this, it is highly likely that you’ll be questioned by George or Wes about any awards, etc. you may have received, make sure to respond to that immediately since the future of our department may hinge on this.

Vice President

Jonathan Cammack: Alana is in the field today, but she was happy to serve as your vice president.

Seminar: Sam Marshall

Ann Hajek is officially coming as our Mike Duke Seminar speaker. We bought her plane ticket. Friday May 10^th is when she arrives, and May 11^th is the date of the seminar.

Treasurer: Andrew Ernst

Dept. account       $121.96

Checking              $444.88

Savings                 $275.08

            Cash                     $472.63- not including hat and shirt change

            Total= $1314.55

Note: Social spent $40 for the van rental to the Sandhills trip this past weekend, and there is probably about $600-700 in t-shirt, and hat money that isn’t accounted for here, so we have about $2,000 total.

Outreach: Jessica Houle & Stephanie Gorski

Jessica Houle: Insects have been ordered: Death feigning beetles, a tarantula, and a vinegaroon. It will be nice to have these on hand, especially now that a new Outreach Coordinator will be taking my place.  

Stephanie Gorski: The EGSA has a MoNS Table from 8-5 on April 21^st for the opening of the Research Center. So far we only have 4 volunteers for the whole day. A sign-up sheet is passed around for more volunteers. Expect 50,000 people (larger than BugFest). T-shirts and Hats will be for sale. This will be an outdoor event, so make sure to bring sunscreen and water. If you want to sign-up here is the schedule so far, and make sure to indicate which shirt size you’d like to Stephanie Gorski.

Jessica Houle: There is another on May 5^th at the Durham “Butterfly Bash”. It’s an out-door set-up, with much fewer people. So far Jess is the only one who is going to attend.

Secretary: Lena Guisewite

Calling for student handbook changes/additions- If you have noticed any discrepancies/missing info in the handbook please email me, I’ll be revising soon.                   

Committee Reports

Social

Lena Guisewite: We have new Social committee co-chairs: Sally Taylor and Rachel Suits. Make sure to reply to Sally’s email about social committee.

The NC field trips have been going really well. If you’d like to see them done differently, email Sally or Rachel. May 6^th is the tentative date for the next field trip to Tidewater Research Station.

Fundraising: Colin Funaro

We are selling about a shirt/week. We are out of smalls and mediums. So we probably won’t order any more until our current supply is depleted so that we are still able to make a profit, since only bulk orders are profitable. Colin will send out a reminder for people to pick up their polo shirts.

Seminar: David Bednar

Make sure to vote for the seminar topic by April 12^th. Another email reminder will go out shortly.

Outreach:      

The website is making a lot of progress, and we hope to make it available to everyone very soon. Basically we’re cleaning-up the PowerPoints so that all of the photos are credited, and so there are notes for slides. The point is to make them available 24/7 to anyone wanting outreach materials without any prior instructions needed.

Old Business

None.

New Business

1.      Elections- candidates were given the opportunity to speak. Stephanie Gorski is the only one who did so. Voting was done by ballot. Results:

Vice President: Yvonne Matos

Secretary: Lena Guisewite

Treasurer: Heather Campbell

Outreach: Stephanie & Emily

Seminar Coordinators: David Bednar & Sam Marshall

UGSA REP: Yvonne Matos

Faculty Advisor: Clyde Sorenson

Meeting Closed at: 1:05pm

Looking for old meeting minutes? Email EGSA Secretary Lena Guisewite at lguisew@ncsu.edu