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KME Meeting
October 18, 2006

  • Attendance: Sarah Cane, Breanne Hoffman, Stephanie Heaton, Boris Petracovici, Tara DeMay, Carla Webb, Kelly Avery, Jonathon Doolin, Jennifer Newberg, Kamal Jnawali, Saulosh Parajuli, Catherine Thauer, and Dennis Norton
  • President’s announcements:
    • The webpage is up and running so check it out at www.wiu.edu/kme
    • We’ve decided to call the club the KME math club
  • Breanne’s announcements
    • The constitution needs a few minor changes
      • We need to include the name of the club
      • Define what the members are
      • Change how often we have initiations
      • Discuss if we want to change fees
  • Recruitment update
    • Keeping making announcements in our classes
    • Post flyers
  • Graphing Calculator seminar
    • We are going to do the seminar at the beginning of next semester
  • The tutoring project
    • Date: November 11, 2006
    • Time: 1:00-4:00
    • Location: @ the junior high
    • Students k-12 and teachers and families will be invited
    • We need to make a letter to send home to parents and have them r.s.v.p so we know how many are attending
    • We need to talk to junior high/high school teachers about possible extra credit
    • We need to check into Wal-Mart and see if they will be willing to donate supplies/food
    • Everyone needs to find 3 programs that they would be interested in putting on for next Wednesday
    • Advertisement: Talk to the radio stations, send  letters to families, have math counts talk to students
  • Guest speaker
    • We decided to have one this semester
    • Dr. Kranjc has volunteered
    • Possible dates: November 15 or November 29
    • Sarah will contact Dr. Kranjc and work out the details
    • We need to brainstorm for some possible gift idea