UTSPS: Officer’s Meeting

Sept. 8, 2005

MH 3011

1:00 PM

 

Present:

Paul Sell

Stephanie Torok

Noel Richardson

Erin Hardy
Josh Thomas

Dr. Lee

 

• Pioneer Star Party (Sat. Sept 10th)
• Meet at 5 PM outside of McMaster Hall
• 12 people projected to attend
• Will figure out driving details once everyone arrives at MH
• Materials to bring:
• Star Charts
• Postcards
• Extrasolar planet charts
• Other NASA goodies
• Other Night Sky Network details:
• Three confirmed events - SPS receives a second box of materials
• Five confirmed events - SPS receives a vinyl NSN banner
• Free Astronomy magazines to hand out at events
• Possible Events at The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
• Member's Event: "Stories of the Night" (Wed. Nov. 2nd)
• Weekend-long Event: "Light and Optics" (Fri. Nov. 25th - Sun. Nov. 27th)
• Member's Night: "Kid's Inventions" (Wed. Feb. 1st)
• National Engineering Week (Sun. Feb. 19th - Sat. Feb. 25th)
• Note:  Feb. 19th is possibly the day of the local Rube Goldberg competition
• Various Camp-ins (all Friday nights)
• Feb. 24th, March 10th, April 7th
• First SPS Speaker Series (Sept. 29th):
  
• Dr. Morrison "Looking for and Applying to Graduate Schools"
• Upcoming SS possibilities:
• Dr. K. Bjorkman
• Dr. B. Bopp
• Dr. S. Lee
• Dr. Helen Brooks
• Dr. Kim (UT Department of Chemistry)
• Kick-off Movie Night (Fri. Sept. 16th)
• Movie suggestions:
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Napoleon Dynamite
• ET
• Star Wars
• Pizza (?)
• Faculty Meeting Attendance (4 Pm on Mondays)
  
• Stephanie
• Making 'Webmaster' and official office position
• Motion seconded
• Will be added to By-laws
  
• Shuttle Tile acquisition: Still looking good!