Major Points
- Solar Competition
- Fundraising
Action Items
- Inuka
- leader for Earth Day
- talk to Raytheon to coordinate selling solar kits at Raytheon fairs/festivals
- Stacey
- talk to Phoenix teacher about repair station
- contact U of A SWE about mentoring them
- Isabel
- Mary
- find out about updating by-laws
- Someone
- get volunteers to man the table to sell solar kits at Raytheon
- write letters to corporations
General Discussion
- Solar competition meeting
- 3/19 at 6 pm, Rubio's at El Con
- Earth Day committee will take over volunteer coordination
- we still recruit volunteers
- they check in at Earth Day desk
- get lunch and breakfast and a volunteer sticker
- Event is April 4th
- photographer is coming for free from Phoenix earth day
- Prez Inuka is the leader for Earth Day in Stacey's absence
- a Phoenix teacher volunteered for the repair station
- renting dance floor
- got a 40% discount on supplies, used saved money on dance floor
- could buy it in the future, but then we'd have to deal with storage and transportation
- got a 10% discount on rental of dance floor
- still getting orders
- got orders from Washington State - charged them extra because we're subsidized by TEP
- sell kits at the competition
- make prettier? Stacey has ideas for this, including a parts list
- sell solar competition kits at Raytheon craft fair / festivals
- need volunteers to man the table
- Inuka will talk to Raytheon to coordinate
- Isabel volunteered to make kit pretty
Fundraiser in spring
- ongoing candy bar sales or a one day event
- design t-shirt
- about engineering
- about solar competition
- price depends on colors and quality
- writing letters to corporations
- speaker at banquet and charge to attend
- massage, spa, makeover
- can't undercut other vendors by selling stuff at the solar competition
- ask for donations at solar competition
- write letters, request donations for solar competition, scholarships
- southwest gas, TEP, a patent law firm
- used to get annual money from southwest gas
- sell water/gatorade @solar competition
- teach salsa - dinner & dancing for $25?
Region wants us to host conference
- late January 2011? Timing will be tricky due to gem show, etc
Social
- wine tasting on a Saturday
- sign waiver if it's at someone's house
- join in with Raytheon wine enthusiasts club
- Shamrock Farms Tour
- Glass blowing tour
- Kitt Peak tour
- softball or baseball game at U of A?
Mary will find out about updating by-laws -- it's required this year
U of A
- lunchtime meetings, so Stacey can't attend them
- they're not communicating well
- they didn't go to conferences
- contact them about doing a mentoring program?
- SWE Tucson members mentor SWE U of A students
U of A location for speaker -- free room?
- share speaker costs with Raytheon Women's Network
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