Tuesday, October 9, 2012




STaRS (Science and Technology Research Showcase) 2013 at GGC:

- In Spring 2013, Tuesday April 9th 2013: probable time 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- 26 hands on activities
- 70+ research or class projects
- 18 undergraduate research presentations
- 5 table advertising student clubs
- 8 tables of professional/graduate programs (HSU, GHSU, UGA, KSU, Ga Tech), GGC Career development table
- 65 SST faculty riectly involved with STaRS activities, posteers, and/or STEC 4500 presentations 
- 40+ additional faculty indirectly involved
- Estimate 1000+ students attended or were involved


Glitches, things to improve

- Funding problems in operational and GGC foundation
- Poster printing cost $400
- Miscommunication with facilities regarding requests for support  (tables, etc). 


To do:

- More events inside classrooms itself and letting people know about it to visit them
- STEC 4500 students are required to present on STaRS.
- Encourage students to take part in STaRS and not to have a regular class. Instead make it a part of their class. Students need to attend the same and earn credits (may be) for this event.
- Encourage non-major faculty to participate in STaRS
- Need more formal volunteer sign-up process to spread the volunteers across the time slots and distribute them to the events
- Encourage students to handle their club, class related STaRS activities
- Participating students did not get access into various rooms to get their passports stamped



How to get things done by sub-committees

FACILITIES COMMITTEE
- Talk with facilities to set-up infrastructure for STaRS
- Identify venue  for all events (Bldg - A), identify rooms available for STaRS events on April 9th 2013
- Available room assignments for events
- Food coordination

PARTICIPATION COMMITTEE:
- Passport management
 
Next meeting: Nov 8th 2012 @ 8:30 am 

 

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