Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology Students Association
Meeting Minutes
Monday January 12, 2015
Opening:
The meeting of the BPKSA was called to order by Loryn at 12:30 pm in the BPK Conference Room
In Attendance:
Loryn, Ashly, Joyce, Megan, Kirstin, Josh, Steven M, Ran, Matt, Garveen, Steven O, Sam, Ian, Erina
Open Issues:
Clubs Days
- Tuesday and Wednesday of this week
- Matt has sent the schedule out for shifts
- MAKE SURE TO ATTEND SHIFTS. If you can’t attend, let someone know
- Table 81 in the AQ; those who are setting up, ask Laurie to let you into the storage room and make sure to get everything necessary (i.e cash box, banner, inventory if selling anything)
- Advertise BPK Career Night as much as possible!
Kin Cup
- Potential Date: February 20th or 27th from 5:30-7:30 pm; need to figure out the date soon so we can let the faculty know
- Date depends on when we can book the gym; Loryn will look into this
- Can also project both dates to faculty to see what works for them; Steven will send an update for glen
Clothing: New Design
- We formerly decided to add a new design for clothing, which was the lungs
- New design for the clothing is the lungs features more vocab
- maybe bring up more of SFU BPK to make the trachea more prominent
- bring U and K up to the top of the lungs; and add more vocab in the available space
Career Event
- Class Promotions
- Matt & Erina did BPK 305; Loryn will send out schedule again for reminder of what is left
- Opening speech
- Tibbits won’t be able to do it this year; Cheri is working on asking another member of the BPK Faculty
- Draw Prizes
- $20 starbucks gift cards (5), one $50 Metrotown gift card, hand out clothing as draw prizes
- Need Volunteers for the event
- Set Up & Registration
- Need volunteers to help set up (@3:30 pm) & sign people in (4:00-5:00 pm) for the event
- Possibly Kirstin, Ashly, Ran (will confirm with Loryn)
- Garveen will watch the registration during breakout session 2 (Med and PT)
- Ian will sit out on breakout session 1 (KIN and Dentistry) and watch registration
- Can turn registration into a clothing selling booth afterwards
- Need volunteers to help set up (@3:30 pm) & sign people in (4:00-5:00 pm) for the event
- Food security (for the entire event)
- Just like last year, give attendees tickets & name tags
- Can rip ticket in half and the students attending will have to show their ticket in order to get food
- Kirstin, Loryn, Megan will be food security from 6:10-6:30 pm
- Steven, Erina, and Sam will be food security from 6:30-6:50 pm
- Dinner will be served after the first breakout session from 6:10 pm to 6:50 pm
- BCIT exhibitors are no longer coming; food can now be put in the centre
- Breakout Sessions:
- Executives attending breakout sessions to ask icebreaker questions are as follows:
- KIN (5:30-6:10 pm): Kirstin, Megan
- Dentistry (5:30-6:10 pm): Loryn, Ran
- Med (6:55-7:35 pm): Loryn, Joyce
- Physiotherapy (6:55-7:35 pm): Steven M, Megan, Erina
- Lab Tours:
- Lab Tours start at 3:30
- Leaders: Ian, Shaila, Jake, Garveen
- Garveen & Ian will be signing lab tour attendees in at 3 pm in the BPK seminar room
- Lab Tours signs from the Kickoff are in Darleens office or the storage room
- Exhibitors:
- Erina will work on signs we can put up at the end of saywell hall to direct exhibitors to the saywell hall atrium
- Executives attending breakout sessions to ask icebreaker questions are as follows:
- Just like last year, give attendees tickets & name tags
- Set Up & Registration
Speaker Series
- Professors we would like to contact for this:
- Charles Krieger, Dave Clarke, Peter Ruben, Tom Claydon, Victoria Claydon, Matt White, Steven Robinovitch, Max Donelan, James Wakeling Tony Leyland
- If you are in the class of one of these professors or if you work with one of them, ask them if they are interested
- Can talk about their research interests or topics in their field of research
Adjournment:
The meeting of the BPKSA was adjourned by Loryn at 1:30 pm in the BPK Conference Room. The next meeting will be held on Monday January 19th, 2015 in the BPK Conference Room at 12:30 pm.