November 5, 2020

Thu 11/05/2020

Agenda Items:

  • Check that all positions are filled
    • Courier
    • Kayaks
  • Winter Open House
  • Social hour ideas

Meeting notes: 

Filling outstanding positions

  • Courier role hasn’t been used much since pandemic start — occasional receipts, not much else
    • Deal with packages on an individual basis until intercampus travel picks up
  • Kayak role – Mallory Ringham okay keeping it for now, but maybe reach out to JPers that use it a lot (ex – Kayla Gardner)
  • MIT housing position – Kevin take care of it?
    • Minimal role, lease not renewed for SIdPac until at least July, yearly lease
  • Social Hour Rep
    • Noah and Cynthia willing to run/coordinate
  • Welcome BBQ rep
    • Hold off for now, but when gets closer, start planning a virtual BBQ/social potentially
  • Photo Board – Stewart
  • GSC rep – need a certification (maybe only for treasurer??). Henri is currently the rep for this. Ask him what that involves.
    • Must attend some meetings, but all currently virtual. Could have 2 reps
    • Logan will look into being part of this
  • Does Zac need training for being treasurer? Likely not critical.
    • SAO training, “financial signatory” on engage, GSC training for funding (not reqd)
    • Zac will check in with Adrian

Open House Activities and Video

  • Editing and shooting footage – Noah in charge of coordinating footage
  • Kevin Kirwin will work on the edits
    • Send link to Dropbox to those who film.
    • Deadline to collect all footage: end Nov., Dec 1
    • Deadline for finished product: end Feb (and sooner) and uploaded to JP website
  • Minimum footage = 1 per discipline; 1 MIT campus; 1 Village WHOI, 1 Quissett WHOI
    • Non-technical — focus on campus atmosphere, cool stuff
    • Green building — Kevin Kirwin has drone footage
    • Eeshan: Ideas for MIT cam- pus footage
    • Type of footage: cell phone camera likely okay, GoPro loan around?
    • Contents: buildings, campus (baseball field, student center), but also fun spots for relaxing, studying, clamming, etc
    • Clips should have a few seconds at start and end to facilitate cuts    
    • Plan informal meet+greet activities (likely Sunday evening before open house)
  • Other Open House activities
    • Q&A by discipline – plan ahead of time so plenty of representation
    • Session on DEI during open house – reaching out to Adam and Lauren (DEI advisors) to help with this and faculty DEI advisors at MIT EAPS (David McGee?), and others
  • E-gift cards for food for open houses
    • Likely $20 range
    • Cynthia will look into this
    • How does this work for international students? Deal with this when we know where the admitted students are from.
  • Trivia games
    • Winners could get swag in the mail
  • Send swag to admitted students – new t-shirts that were made
    • Stewart will follow up with Veevee for stickers, other options
    • Split up workload by students in each discipline, handwritten note
    • Use the courier
    • Look up stuff from WHOI Exhibit center and MIT store – Logan will do this
      • towel, other ideas

Social Hour ideas and date

  • Planned activity
  • Trivia, play games?
    • Make the games between classes, departments
    • Team activity, prize
  • Online trivia – look into this and facilitate over zoom
    • Database of questions on reddit
    • Noah, Stewart, and Cynthia will plan this

Facilitating future meetings