November 1, 2024

Fri 11/01/2024

Attendance: Rilee Thomas, Miah Manning, Bailey Fluegel, Natalie Hummel, Caroline Rzucidlo, Paige Pfenninger, Keqi ren, Jennifer Nicker, Nadege Aoki, Lilli Enders

Missing: Hiroki Nagao

Rep Responsibilities:

  • Procurement card – Paige
    • Should have a card in both locations, don’t get used often (Tricia)
    • 4-6 weeks to get the card
    • Maybe the social chair should get it (?)
    • If we do want it, the person should contact Tricia Nesti, then you need training etc., Tricia will organize the MIT/banking stuff, and then Tricia will let you know when the card is in.
  • ASA – Bailey
    • A lot of it was not applicable, MIT based things
    • Groups need to register their groups each spring
  • Czars – Miah
    • Filling 4 positions: GSC, Sustainability, Grocery Czar, Merch czar
  • Website
    • Ask Scott about fixing the funding submission.
    • People from 2 year before?
      • Anthony Meza might know
    • Add form for JP student photo board → a reminder email?
      • Likely the form is in the JP reps google drive
    • Scott said he doesn’t really know what’s happening…
      • Link to a google form on the website instead [Lilli]

Funding Requests:

  • Pig Roast interest results/ Trivia
    • Pig Roast (~50 people)
      • Ask people to bring cutlery
    • $750
    • Vote: unanimous yes
  • Trivia
    • Vote: unanimous yes
  • We aren’t “spending it” (~20K total, 10K a year)
    • Comes out of student life fee

Professional Development (Nadege)

  • Professional Jelly Talks
    • Focused on research opportunities/ professional development options
      • How did it go?
      • How did you get the position?
    • Group discussions on topics + knowledge share
  • APO interested in supporting this too
  • List of resources
    • Internships, field course work, leading cruises, media training, outreach, dive training, technology training (HPC), teaching internships
  • JP Reps would support snacks.
  • Timing?
    • 2 weeks [Nadege]
      • We can always reduce it
      • Put out a spreadsheet
    • Monthly [Tricia]
      • Judge our availability to organize
      • Then increase times per month
  • Half information on professional development, half student presentations? [Jenn]
    • One session sharing student research (lightning talks) [Nadege]
    • One session sharing professional development tools [Nadege]
  • Would this be held at MIT or WHOI? Or both? [Rilee]
    • Initial idea was at WHOI w/ hybrid [Nadege]
      • Mostly an organizing constraint
      • Talk to Tricia about room availability + timing

Steinbach Scholar Nominations [Keqi]

  • Nomination should start around this time
  • MC&G (Jenn) and G&G (Bailey) and at-large [Natalie]
    • Keqi talk directly to Jenn and Bailey  and Natalie [Jenn]

Student Center [Keqi]

  • Direct TV streaming: We don’t believe people really use it…
    • Survey student body

Times:

  • General Meetings: 1st Friday of the month @ 10 am
  • Rilee will send out when2meet for working meetings