Biomedical Engineering Society Minutes
TL;DR:
- Current Members: Please send in your BMES ID Numbers to Justin!
- For those who don’t have BMES ID Numbers: Please obtain a student account on the BMES Website and send your number to Justin if you want to attend the BMES conference this fall!
- Newsletter Articles are due THIS SUNDAY at 8:00 pm!
CHECK BMES OUT on Social Media:
Social:
- BMES Study Break!
- May 1st
- Cinco De Mayo Themed
- Purchase a Piñata
- We also will be handing out the leftover Freshman-Finals-Survival-Kits
- Next Semester
- Bowling Social – a Sunday – get X number of lanes
- Assassin event within BME
Fundraising:
- Quarter Zips
- Looking to do them next semester, not this semester.
- Tank tops will be sold at the Banquet
Social Media:
- No new updates at this time.
Mentoring Program:
- Freshman Survival Guide is in the works
- Planned to talk to mentors at the beginning of next semester
- Wednesday, April 8th 6:30 (tentative)
- Look into doing some sort of mentor community – let students know that they can attend events even if their mentors are not present
- Possible Mentor info session to get more mentors involved
- If we want to have an orientation event – must plan early!! and contact Matt Spielman
- Workshop for Mentoring Committee and what everyone wants – sometime mid-April
Academic Events:
- Vaccinex tour: Recap
- Went very well!
- Would like to do more academic tours in the future
- Potential Stem Cell Industry Tour – Latest by next semester
Outreach:
- STEM Family Science Day Recap:
- Yay! Went well
- FoodLink – Recap
- 4 People went!
- It went well!
- On Campus tutoring/volunteering
- -NSBE Study Hall Tuesdays—7-10 PM
- ->>Sign ups: Here
- -NSBE Study Hall Tuesdays—7-10 PM
- Still looking into other schools to work with – late April/May
- Last Monday of every month – College Diabetes Network – help out with their events with patients from Strong
- IEEE event – teaching elementary school students how to build an Atari Noisemaker
- April 29th, 1-3:30 pm at the Pittsford Elementary School
Newsletter:
ARUN IS OUR NEW NEWSLETTER EDITOR!
Articles to Arun – April 26th by 8:00 pm due
- Mentoring events – Mary & Taryn – after deadline
- Rochester Explorer Post (Event for Children) – Kelly
- RIT social – Justin
- Advertisement for banquet – Janet
- Career Info Session – Sophie
- Senior design stuff – Stephanie
- examples of articles: Here
Assessment of Events:
- Complete assessment here
- Click “Assessment” in the list, log onto CCC (make sure to SUBMIT the form)
- For people doing assessments, copy your newsletter article and put it in as your assessment!
- Rochester Explorer Post (Event for Children)
- Academic Event on internships and career center
- Matt Spielman is primary contact
- Email Spielman if it’s been more than a month
Orientation Event:
- Physics 101 Crash Course
- Try to co-sponsor with Tau Beta Pi – they have been emailed
- If we cant get it for orientation, we will do it the first or second day of school
- Every engineer has to take this test
- Talk to Matt Spielman about this
General Meeting:
Look out for a general meeting next semester!
Weekly Meetings every Monday at 8 PM in Goergen 239.
Questions? Email Anisha at akhosla@u.rochester.edu