Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology Students Association
Meeting Minutes
Thursday January 08, 2015
Opening:
The meeting of the BPKSA was called to order by Loryn at 12:30 pm in the BPK Seminar Room
In Attendance:
Josh, Shaila, Jake, Erina, Sam, Cheri, Darleen, Joyce, Loryn, Ian, Garveen, Christine, Steven
Open Issues:
- Christine is filling in for Sabrina till Sabrina is back (which will be the day after Career Night)
Career Event
- BPKSA Executives: Remember to wear BPK apparel
- Cheri will send out agenda for career event to Loryn, who will email it out
- Lab Tours
- Labs: Cardiovascular Physiology & Locomotion Lab
- Lab Tour Leaders: Ian, Jake, Shaila, Garveen
- Leaders need to remember to have some icebreaker questions to ask during the tours
- Lab Tours run from 3:30-4:30 pm
- BPK Seminar Room has been booked from 3 pm; need to have everyone meet here to sign in (Garveen will come @ 3 to do this)
- Donelan still has to ask his graduate students if they’re a go for lab tours and will get back to Loryn
- Each Lab Tour Session will be 20-25 minutes per session
- Back to Saywell hall by 4:30 from lab tours for the exhibitors
- Cheri will make the web survey active so people can register
- REMEMBER THAT BPKSA EXECUTIVES NEED TO REGISTER!
- Registering on the web survey will earn a ticket for the draw prize
- Speakers and Breakout Sessions:
- Cheri and Darleen will take care of swag bags for the speakers
- Total number of speakers: 9 (3 Kinesiologists, 1 MD, 1 PT, 1 Dentist, possibly 2 current medical school students, and 1 current PT student)
- 1st breakout session will consist of Dentistry and Kinesiologist first, 2nd will be the MD and PT
- For the current medical school students: Josh will ask Ronnie (Current Med Student); Darleen will message Amanda (also current MED Student)
- Darleen will find a PT student to be a speaker
- AQ 3149 AND 3150 booked for sessions
- Exhibition:
- 3:30-8 pm
- Career Fair: need people to help set up @ 3:30 (goes till 8)
- 304W people will talk to Richard to be excused from class
- Loryn, Josh, Sam, Joyce, Erina
- Need a food room: Cheri will work on booking a room
- May have to wing it based on the amount of exhibitors coming; need students that day to help with food and to keep guard
- Steven will come in after BPK 402 (ends @ 6:20 pm) to help guard the food
- Promotions – Class Visits
- Remember to promote career night, kin cup, year-end party, research day
- MUST BE DONE NEXT WEEK; tell students to bring resumes for career services
- Alex: 143, 303
- Darleen: 241
- Josh: 140
- Ian: 336
- Loryn & Garveen: 444
- Loryn & Joyce: 304W
- Erina: 305
- Shaila: 306
- Steven: 340, 343
- Garveen: 326
- Joyce & Jake: 421
- Shaila: 415
- Jake: 446
- Erina & Steven: 402
- Remember to promote career night, kin cup, year-end party, research day
- BPK conference room is also booked from 2pm onwards
- Josh will send speaker profiles to Christine
- The following will attend Breakout Sessions to ask some icebreaker questions
- PT: Steven
- Med: Joyce
- Kinesiologist: Kirstin
- Dentist: Loryn
Club Days
- Next week on Tuesday and Wednesday (10:30-3:30)
- Will hand out extra water bottles @ club days
- SEND IN AVAILABILITIES TO MATT FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NEXT WEEK
Speaker Series
- Talk about it with the professors and will reconvene on this during later meetings
UPC meeting was cancelled today; no news from the meeting
SFSS
- Sam, the SFSS Councillor Representative attended the meeting last night and reported back:
- SFSS wants Sam to report to them about our meetings
- They have also said that if we need them they are a resource we can use
- In addition, if we need to bring something up to the board, tell Sam and he can bring it up with them
- If there is also an issue with what the board has done, let Sam know and he can bring it up with them
Adjournment:
The meeting of the BPKSA was adjourned by Loryn at 1:30 pm in the BPK Seminar Room. The next meeting day and time has yet to be set.