Officer Meeting Minutes - 10/2/08

Mike will update the content of the website
We will not be painting the office
The competition with the Astronomy club has high interest with the Astronomy club members
Limits on material and cost (about $100 or $200) not including weights
The competition will be on the 13th of December
Goals for the competition: accuracy, distance, power or combination
The location for the competition will be announced
UA SEDS will run the competition
The projectile that can be used will be announced
Mike will right up some rules for the competition
UA SEDS is going to go to Space Vision
Members might be getting a free dinner at Space Vision
The room is right now $85 per night
Kyle will book three rooms for three nights
There are three personal cars that are probably going to be taken to Space Vision
We're not going to go with motorpool since it cost too much
Total cost for the trip is $1700
There is a physics event for Halloween before the weekend before and the weekend of
SEDS will be part of the event on the Thursday and Friday of Halloween
Looking for outreach in: Soronan Science Academy, School for the Deaf and Blind, and others
To give a powerpoint presentation for our outreach of how the development and exploration of space is coming about
We will go to Kitt Peak in nine days and will have a guided tour
Kevin will be setting up the tour
Non members will be charged $5, members get in free
Covering for the telescope and the second mirror will be made soon
The weights on the telescope need to be taken off or somehow arranged in such a way that we could add or substract the weights
A project could be a binocular telescope
UA SEDS would need to write a proposal to obtain the mirrors for such a telescope
Kyle will give out information about new things in developing or exploring space
The machine shop class information was sent out through email