When: 5:15pm
Date: July 13, 2007
1. Picnic Update:
Logistics, fooding and games were discussed during the meeting.
The picnic went on well, 25 people attended the picnic. We started out with football throwing tournament that continued for almost an hour and Visu and Elbert won the tournament. Next was three legged race which was another visual delight watching people fall , run, strides and doing all sorts of things. Although all the participants did an excellent job in three legged race, however, Vasanth and Puvi's strategy made the three legged race look almost like a 2-legged race resulting in grabbing the trophy. It was fun watching how Neeraj's team literally smoldered the other team in Tug-O-War - although the losing team cried foul but the best of 3 clearly showed the prowess of Neeraj's gang. There was no point in going for a best of five after losing best of three, coz it would've hardly changed anything. The other team was way too powerful to overcome. Finally, the much awaited volleyball game started after a short water-melon break. All the four teams Oakers, Raiders, Boosters and Racers played with full spirit and there was no dearth of splendid performances by most of the players.The finals b/w Boosters and Oakers exhibited some spectacular performances by both the teams, and ultimately the Boosters came out to grab the trophy of the highly prized tournament. There was a small time prize distribution ceremony along w/ snaps of the winners of games taken by our newly appointed official photographer. Here is the link to the snaps: http://ddibya.public.iastate.edu/photos/sankalp picnic 2007.zip
To all those who might have gotten some physical discomfort while playing games, I wish you a speedy recuperation. Special thanks to the game organizers Neeraj, Aniket and Visu for ensuring the games went on smoothly and happily.
2. CC drive:
It was decided that the CC drive will be conducted in the weekend of July 20th. The drive was conducted on July 22nd and sankalp received a lot of cans and coins that have to be redeemed.
3. Iowa speedway:
Eight volunteers went for the speedway event to Newton. Altogether we made roughly $550. Thanks to all the volunteers for their courage in leaving bed at 7am and that too on Sunday.