UNM and NMT Combing Meeting | 7/18/2013 | 6:00-7:00pm

Combined Portion

•  Power point presentation on EWB-UNM (Focusing primarily on Tsimane project)
• 2 separate projects
• Campo Bello
• Tacaural Del Motto
• Last Year
• Tacaural Del Motto
• Community wants well
• Took data for potential well sites
• Signed a contract with the community
• Campo Bello
• Community wants wells
• Capped 3 wells
• For potential handpumps to be installed 
• Cleaned 2 additional wells
• Took data for potential well sites
• Signed a contract with the community
• In each community a "water committee" was formed, consisting of 5 different households and at least one woman 
• Questions:
• Why isn't there more of a partnership with the UNM / UCSB Anthropology Group
• File Sharing
• The group will use google drive. There will be a shared folder between the groups. Please share with officers (need a gmail account)
• A to-do list shared in google docs (Ethan to take lead)
• Positions
• Project lead (s)
• Communication lead
• Will be in charge of communication in between communities
• EWB-USA Requirements lead
• In charge of making deadlines to EWB-USA
• This includes all reports
• Fundraising Lead
• Education / Materials Lead
• In charge of coming up with materials and educational materials to give to communities
• Heath and Safety Lead
• In charge of coming up with safety plan for all trips
• Planning to meet with both groups once a month and with UNM only every 2 weeks
• NMT to come up with project website
• Still need a faculty lead
• Fundraising
• TCR Racing (Tom is our contact)
• Planning an April Fools day 5k
• Need to come up with a Cover Letter
• Contact previous sponsors and make a list of new potential sponsors
• Divide among both chapters

UNM Portion

• Faculty Advisor
• Could be in Geology, Civil Engineering, Chemistry (talk to Dean)
• Elections (will hold meeting second week of Fall classes)
• Recruitment (Arianna Romano to take lead aromano@unm.edu)
• Need to table at Welcome Back Week
• Talk to Elsa Castillo in Engineering Student Services
• Scheduling
• Meetings for entire semester
• Deadlines
• Event Dates
• Facebook
• Tamas to take charge of the group and adding people!
• Look into basecamp/evernote for organizing projects
• A meeting to discuss recruitment and details meeting before school starts (will send out DoodlePoll)

First General Meeting Scheduled for Wednesday, August 28th at 6pm CEC 1016

Katy to bring cookies!!!!

Combined EWB Professional / UNM / NMT Meeting June 26th 6:30pm

Professional Chapter

• The Albuquerque professional chapter gave an introduction to their projects in the Navajo Nation.
• Water Quality - Past Uranium mining has affect the water quality in the aquifer  In addition, water is scarce and hard to access in villages atop of mesas.
• Solar Heating - Solar units were generously donated to the village. However, design modifications are needed and help installing them.
• The team is planning  future project involving school children. The team will help with a community garden and provide cooking classes. The idea is that with the children educated on nutrition, some of the knowledge will make its way home to the parents, providing better meals for the whole family.
• If you are interested in learning more or helping with any of these projects contact Mike Griesmeyer (mgriesmeyer2@comcast.net)

UNM + NMT
We are excited to announce a new partnership between the UNM and NMT Chapters! This is great news, because this means we will have double the manpower to engineer, write reports, get community support and recruit new members! This will be a big transition for our groups, so some time will be needed to "hash out" exactly how this partnership will run. As such, there will be a Meeting July 17th at 6pm. (Location to be determined for group "Google hangout"). We will work on

• Communication plan between chapters and Bolivian Communities
• Define Project positions and roles
• Go over data sharing
• Goal setting and Schedule making

Some other ideas we discussed for future brainstorming (please bring your ideas to this meeting!!)

• Finding Corporate sponsorship (perhaps a team of people to seek out sponsorships)
• Possibly seeking out help from university's "Capstone" program
• Grant writing committee
• Group bonding! (This will be a challenge due to distance between chapters)
• Perhaps K-12 mentoring

General Meeting | 02-05-13 | 4pm

1st General Meeting of 2013!

• Ramah
• Contact finally made (02/01), preference on weekday meeting.
• Bolivia
• Still trying to contact local driller.
• Thursday (02/07) working meeting, contact Dave for information if interested
• Need to resubmit 523 report to include hand pump wells in decision matrix
• Fundraising
• Masquerade ball
• Need help with promotion, see Mario for flyers
• Feb 24 at Dirty Bourbon, $5 with mask, $10 without a mask, ALL AGES
• Imbibe Without Borders
• March 22 with suggested donation of $15
• DD Service
• Need volunteers
• Need volunteers to cook (beer inspired!) food for event
• 5k in April, most likely