Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Meeting Minutes 11.12.13

8:10 - Attendance

8:15 - CP Swing Club
  • Meets on Sundays
  • Drop in Lesson for beginners
    • teaches the basics
    • 3 dollars
  • Also offer intermediate lessons
  • Offers Series
    • currently in 10 week series
    • take dancing from 0 to 60 in 10 weeks
  • Swing Workshop
    • bring in international champions and teachers
    • coming up in 2 weeks
    • 70 dollars for entire weekend
  • Hour of social dancing after all lessons
  • Lindy Exchange during spring quarter
Drop Dead Blues
  • teach blues dancing
  • Every Saturday
  • practica hour from 8-9 pm
  • Architecture building room 225 & 226
  • sloswing.com
  • sign up in practice room
  • talk to Rosie to get emails
8:20 - Craft Center
  • Flame working
    • costs $80 for the quarter
    • includes quarter pass
  • easy class to take
  • Other classes:
    • surfboard shaping
    • woodworking (baseball bat making)
    • pottery
    • stained class
    • bike maintenance
    • jewelry casting
    • jewelry smithing
  • Signing up:
8:25 - Engineers Without Borders
  •  Michallynn Hoffman, EWB Secretary
  • Overview: started in Boulder Colorado in early 2000's
  • Cal Poly chapter started in 2005
  • listens to the needs of an overseas community and builds product for them
  • 4 international teams
    • India
      • implementing communal latrine system
    • Nicaragua
      • build public school system
      • sanitation system
      • built health clinic
    • Malawi
      • water treatment system and transportation OR sanitation system
    • Thailand (oldest project)
      • micro hydroelectric system
      • organic composting system
  • 1 local project team
    • Erosion Control in Paso Robles
    • Low energy food storage units
    • Solar panel installation
  • Joins with companies for minimum of 5 years
  • Project meetings Mondays from 7-9 pm
  • Local projects: Tuesday from 11 am - 12 pm
  • you do NOT need to be an engineer!
  • ewb-calpoly.org
  • ewb.calpoly@gmail.com
8:36 -  Leadership Activity
  • Human knot
9:05 - Meeting Dismissed

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