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