STEM ALLIANCE BOARD
Board Meeting - 10/25/2022
Meeting Notes
1. Call to order
6:37PM
2. Roll call – voting members
President - Tim Ryan (x)
Vice President - Rory Held (x)
Secretary/Treasurer - Aaron Fischer (x)
Board Member - Hannah Reisdorf ()
Board Member - Ryan Thayer (x)
Board Member - Roger Amundson (x)
Board Member - Matt Craig (x)
Board Member - Matt Bahr (x)
3. Approval of previous meeting notes
Approved - no discussion
4. Unfinished business
none
5. Committee status reports
Strategic Planning and Robotics Growth – Tim Ryan
Primary focus is FIRST programs - starting with FLL at the elementary level
Multi prong approach
Engage with educators and administration at elementary schools - get in the door and make our pitch
work with Angela at NDSU to engage with existing teams to support them and make connections to support new teams. And Gwen (UND and state FLL coordinator)
Tim will schedule another meeting to continue discussions
Fundraising / Financial – Aaron Fischer
990 is filed
Current account balances
Outreach - Rory Held
Nothing in addition to the events coming up
6. Events
FIRST
FLL and FTC events - needs quality judges and streaming capability - also have FTC and FRC exhibiting at FLL and FRC at FLL
FRC kickoff - Jan 7 - 8 teams signed up - STEM Ecosystem has grants available if we want to do something like we did with 3D printers last year. Need to brainstorm ideas
Camps
In Q3 of '23 - Air Museum is looking to partner on ongoing camp program - looking for kit/materials and curriculum. Air Museum will put together a proposal and we'll go from there.
NMRC off season - STEM Alliance is providing streaming service.
7. New Business
none
8. Plan next meeting
November 15 - 7PM
Air Museum
9. Adjourn
7:39PM
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