Thursday June 1st, MC5136B

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Attendees: Kathy Lam, Chris Herriot, Linda Chen, Jeff Wong, Anne Tran, Lance DaSilva, Sam Leung, Nancy Xu, Christina Lucey, Patrick Tsui

Agenda: Funding, Waterloo Lab space, Objectives for next week

Funding

Letter provided by Farshid

• Kathy showed the team the letter that Farshid is using to approach potential sponsors

Concerns from the group:

• U of W is not mentioned in the letter
• We might like to consider personalizing letters for targeted companies, ex. providing personalized motives

Company List provided by Farshid

• Kathy and Christina will investigate into them (140 companies, 24 were given to us)
• In addition we would like to compile our own list of companies, focusing on the kitchener/cambridge area

WEEF/MEF proposals

• Linda discussed proposal and presentation requirements.

The body of the proposal/presentation should contain: objective, timeline, resources required, background of students involved, justify the need to travel, summary and conclusion.

Key points to mention: How this project can benefit the school in the future, and the team is actively seeking funding from other sources

• Linda, Anne, Kathy, Christina, and Sam will start drafting the proposal once the budget has been drafted

Budget

• Detailed budget is crucial for funding applications
• Could not be compiled until we receive numbers for lab equipment, and travel expenses, and team size estimate (are we helping to fund the travelling expense of the UofT team? Are we putting our funds together?)
• Patrick will look into possibilities of applying for the Dean's funding with the department of Engineering

Lab Space

• if possible, the team expressed much interest in having at least part of the lab work being conducted here
• Chris will speak to Dr. Charles and other contacts within biology to look into how feasible this idea will be. Update on next week's meeting.
• Lance could potentially be our wetlab trainer

Thermometer Project

• Chris expressed possible issues with the current design and would like to seek further clarification from Stephen on the next general meeting with Uof T team.
• We would like to surface our concern as to what we can contribute to this project. Does the model need to be fine tuned? Could we help out with the lab work?

Post-Thermometer Project (or Parallel Project)

Everyone will brainstorm for ideas and bring them for discussion at the meeting next week.

Major Concerns to Resolve

• Need to take a stand on how much we would like to initiate in terms of acquiring funds
• Need to address what the UW team can contribute to the therometer project, aside from fund raising.