Minutes – October 22th, 2018

Opening:

The meeting of the BPKSA was called to order at 11:30pm by Crystal in the BPK Conference Room. Minimum quorum of 4 executive members reached.

 

In Attendance:

Crystal Lefebvre ……….……………………………………………………………………………………. President

Riley Welyk ……….……………………………….……………………………………………………. Vice President

Jaskarn Grewal …………………………………………………………………………………………. Treasurer

Emily Ponton .………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Secretary

Emily Boyco ………………………………………………………….………………… External Relations Officer

Katie Smolik ……………………………………………………………………………. Promotional Coordinator

Ben Chang

Daxton Chan

 

 

Open Issues:

  1. Approval of Previous Minutes
  • Katie motioned to approve the meeting minutes of 2018-10-15. Riley seconded. Minutes approved unanimously

 

  1. Wings Night
  • Try to figure out how we want to advertise and get more people out to events
    • Class presentations, posters, etc
  • About 45 people went

 

  1. Careers in BPK
  • Wednesday January 23rd, 2019
  • review list of exhibitors
  • think of who to ask as speakers for OT, Kintec, Physio & Med
  • an exhibitor from last year brought up the idea of the students having a “passport” paper where the students can get a stamp/sticker from each exhibitor table and if they complete the passport they can be entered into a special prize drawing
  • ASB
    • We could split the tables so that we could have most of our exhibitors before the stairs (tables after the stairs might be hidden and not get enough people going to these tables)
  • BPK Career Night pamphlet
    • Breakout sessions – elaborate on what the activities are
    • Lab tours – maybe change the times because a lot of people haven’t been able to make it at previous events because of classes
  • Food
    • Discuss with SFSS first to see what we can order

 

  1. Halloween Plans
  • a movie night or Club Ilia social has been suggested
  • we though of other plans for things to do for the BPKSA members (similar to the camping retreat in the summer);
    • Hockey game, movie night, etc.

 

  1. Clothing
  • one person had emailed in a clothing design suggestion for t-shirts in the spring

 

  1. OzTREKK Information Session
  • We might make a “highlight” section on the Instagram page to help promote events in with the BPKSA and OzTREKK
  • Kati would like us to share the info session details on social media
  • OzTREKK will be hosting an information session about studying Medicine in Australia.
    • During the information session you will learn about everything about studying Medicine abroad, including: financing, admission requirements and the process of returning to Canada for residency. There will be free pizza for everyone attending!
      • Date: Wednesday October 24th
      • Location: BLU 10031
      • Time: 5:00 pm
    • To RSVP click here: https://study.oztrekk.com/med-sfu-oct24/

 

  1. Christmas Movie Night
  • We could plan for a Christmas event in November with a movie in the student lounge wit popcorn and candy, posters, etc
    • November 23rd at 5:20pm
    • We can look for movies on the SFSS approved movies list, we can put a poll on FB to figure out what people want to watch
      1. Elf
      2. National Lampoon
  • Home alone
  1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

 

Motions:

Emily B motioned to reimburse Jaskarn for $270.63 for food at BPK Wings Night event from Grant #940. Katie seconded it. Motion was passed unanimously.

 

Riley motioned to provide $1100 from the BPK travel funds to the Kin Games team members. Emily B seconded it. Motion passed unanimously. Kin Games team members include Andrea Forer, Kreig Yeh, Katie Smolik, Santiago Matilla, Ashwin Singh, Hannah Davis, Arshia Zarrin, Daniel Sclater, Julia Zhou, Sarah Powell, Katie Milligen, Kelsey Wallace, Mark Camps, Parneet Sidhu, Spencer Matthewman, Jeremiah Chan, Daniela Pistilli, and Rachel Mackie

 

Adjournment:

The meeting of the BPKSA was adjourned by Crystal at 12:20pm in the BPK Conference Room. The next meeting will be held on Monday, October 29th, 2018 at 11:30pm in the BPK Conference Room.