Venue: 1134 Sweeny Hall
Time: 5:15 PM
Attendees: Muthu, Lavanya, Hari, Visu, Niranjan, Puvi, Vasanth, Misha, Deepak, KK, Abhijith, Atul, Elbert, Rajee, Kanwar Singh, Nayan Chakravarty
Few things passed on to the new commitee by the old commitee:
1. Univ of Iowa Chapter - Univ of Iowa already has an AID Chapter
2. India Networking - Contact Person: Deepak
3. US Networking - Contact Person: Vidya, Rahul
4. Religious clause discussion
Events list 2006-2007
1. Fresher's party
2. Open house
3. Football games
4. Faces - Did not take up
5. Newton Speedway - Did not take up
6. Younkers - Contact: Pratik, Hari, Visu
7. Borders - Contact: Deepak, Swaroopa, Pooja
8. Daawat
9. Veishea
10. Summer Activities - Lawn mowing, painting, volunteering for other organizations, Newton speedway volunteering
Discussion on improvement
Elbert: Volunteers can be asked for money (other than time). Pledge forms are there already.
Hari: Website development. It's upto date now. Football schedule can be put on
website. For getting volunteers email personally or use Orkut.
Elbert: Vellareddy wants to start a coaching centre for SAT and Med schools.
Volunteer needs to commit for a month atleast and should be well prepared.
Babysitting: A movie or presntation on plight of Indian villages.
Deepak: More talks and presentations
Muthu: Better evaluation of feedback from projects
Deepak: Bring in professors who are doing social service on their own
Muthu: Archiving
Vasanth: Do we need CC drive? Members felt that it's ok to have it.
Academic orientation on Saturday (August 18, 2007) - Went OK. Few freshers
turned up. Sankalp members were present until 5:15 PM. Pop and cookies were
served.
Fresher's party
- Saturday, Aug 25, Durham 171 5-7 PM (UDCC not available)
- Pizza, pop to be served
- Email to new students
- Abhijith volunteered for arranging presentations
- 3 games to be organized by Satyam, Puvi, Niranjan
** From next week, Sankalp members will meet every Friday in Sweeny 1134 at 5:30 PM (Note the change of time) **