Meeting Minutes – 02/17/2022thu

February 17 2022 14 People in attendance Minutes taken by acp

Pie Eating Contest

• Pie eating contest happening on March 14.
• Hopefully we will be able to do a fund raiser during event
• Perhaps we can send someone to join contest

Western Weekend

• Saturday April 2nd for admitted students
• Event for entire University, not just CEAS
• On main campus, full day event
• Engineering students will be sent to parkview
• Students will be encouraged to speak to RSOs on campus
• Students will go to Reed Fieldhouse for performance at end of day

Science Olympiad

• Our event will be called WiFi Lab
• Students will arrive with a prebuilt antenna
• March 19, on a Saturday

Hackathon

• Hackathon planning continues
• Website has been worked on by Ming
• Still looking for people to work on events

Programming Contest

• Contest being run by Dr. Shen
• They do not need more people this semester
• However they want us to know about it and maybe get interested in the future
• Students are provided with a list of several challenging problems
• You generally cannot solve all of them because they are very challenging
• Contact Dr. Shen if you are interested in getting involved

Cybersecurity

• Katie and Kristin are RSO advisors
• We may be able to talk with them regarding the CTF team
• They may host a CTF which we could help with
• We may also be able to participate in a CTF they host
• We think they are from the Business College
• Flay may be a good person to talk to for starting CTF team if we are interested

Blacktops

• Sold some MSPs today
• Unkown number where sold, not a lot
• We will likely have to sell more next week
• Students may have to return to purchase blacktops as well
• Stryker is “booked until March” No date was given
• We may not be able to rely on them to fab the boards
• Kahrl and aerospice have been looking into stenciling the SMT components to do it manually
• Unfortunately work that was done on the small blacktop parts did not work as well as we were hoping
• Buyback has been established at $30, we may lose money on this one.
• May move to JLCPCB for future fabrications
• Dr. Gupta may send out email to alumni let them know we are looking for blacktop buybacks

The Failed Coup

• The coup from last week has failed
• The revolutionaries were crushed
• Old regime restored