Bolivia Meeting | 3/29/2012 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM

50/50 Raffle - Make sure to check your numbers on the google doc

525 Status / Assignments - Final Design (pre implementation)

• Monday April 2nd - first draft is due
• April 8th - We will get feedback from Curtis
• Wednesday April 11th with everyone's final edits
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• Calculate chlorine dose/contact time for open pit wells and hand pump wells - Josh
• Verify standards for  E. Coli, Arsenic, and Manganese included -Curtis
• Add more detail regarding the number of projects we intend to implement on this trip - Kelly/Kacey (add summary table)
• Add tables of water quality information for each community - Kelly
• We need to clarify where we will obtain the media and how we will sieve it etc - Kacey
• Need more information on the materials within the filter, specifically grain size and angularity (Point 40) - Ryan
• Definitely add language about hygiene training under education - Kelly
• Need more information regarding the well closure – do we intend to fill it in?  If so, where will the material come from?  How will it be transported? - Kacey
• Add an actual construction schedule -  Ryan (look at HASP)
• update community agreement section with projects proposed/labor hours required - Dylan
• Drawing set: cover sheet with index and site map - Kent
• Add hand pump well site assessment language to section 10 - Josh/Kacey

521 Decision - Assessment for the latrines

Travel Team

Spanish Lessons - Same location
First class is Tuesday at 7 of next week (April 3rd) - Everyone goes to this one
Mondays at 6:30 for beginners
Tuesdays at 6:30 for intermediates

General Meeting | 3/27/2012 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM

Talk today - "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)" - David Conley

Module one: What is Systematic Innovation

• Tradition view is that innovation comes from a gifted few
• This says innovation can be learned
• Altshuller created classical TRIZ

What is TRIZ:

• Systematic approach to problem solving
• Helps break mental inertia by analyzing problems in an abstract form

TRIZ tools - Part 1

• Contradiction Modeling - What in my technological system is limiting my ability to move or grow
• Functional Modeling - What are the functions of the various components in my system? 
• Trends of Evolution - Engineering systems evolve according to objectives

TRIZ Tools - Part 2

• Knowledge and Effects
• Resource Analysis 

ASUNM also came - we talked about our on campus issues

Officer Meeting | 3/19/2012 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM

This Wednesday March 21,  Buca di Beppo - 7pm $5 - "Professional Chapter Kickoff Thing"

Presenting Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) April 2nd

Sunny wants to present for ASUNM at next general meeting March 27th

Need to get paid from 5k soon.

We have to pay EWB USA $1,000 dollars for administration fees

Need to sell these tickets!

• Ask Sam's Club if we can stand in front of the store - Lucas

Need an invoice before TAC for CPR and first aid

Want to plan a team building meeting / weekend workshop

• We agree on having it around the first weekend that school is out.
• Going down to construct latrines 
• Another idea from Kelly - have a BBQ with Anthropology students for informal meet and greet with students that have actual been there
• Kelly is going to contact Anthropology group

We should communicate with Dean of each college to donate money for each student traveling.
Several ways to pitch it.

Filter workshop

• Supplies - buckets or trash cans 
• Trash bins might not be ok because it's not food grade plastic
• We should test the water to see if trash bins are affecting the water
• Maybe we can do that testing here
• 1st week of prep work - telling people; checking on availability of rooms; finding the equipment; purchase concrete; making a form for the pour
• Contact Dave for all this concrete business
• Ryan can't do it April 20th and 22nd
• Kacey can't do the first 2 weekends in April
• Tentative only do the plastic filters on March 31st and April 1st and do the concrete later 

Bolivia Meeting | 3/01/2012 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM

Agenda

• Trip
• If you are planning on going you need to make sure and help with fundraising 
• Golden Pride Lunch with AWMA at 11:30am
• Report 525
• Needs to be done by April to travel in July.
• Really needs to get done on the first shot
• EWB USA project manager might be able to give comments on the report. Kacey will email him.
• Dates
• Black-out Dates
• Mark can't first 2 weeks of July
• Curtis can't 3 week of July 16-20
• School Start Aug 21
• Leave July 16th????????
• Money
• Have about ~$17,800
• Everyone traveling will pay $300
• blah
• 5k
• Bib prep
• 69 people registered 
• Packet assembly 
• Awards
• "Candle Holders" Should be done tomorrow
• Day-of volunteers - 6am @ Hispanic Cultural Center
• Use ballons for markers