21May2020 Minutes

Call To Order

An Engineering meeting of the OC Engineering club, was held on May 21th, 2020. The meeting convened at 3:30pm, called to order by Raymond Simpson via Zoom Chat. President Raymond Simpson presiding, Vice President Dylan Jensen and Yuval Martin(Officer), a quorum being present.

Members in attendance

Raymond Simpson
Dylan Jensen
Yuval Martin
Joel Martin
Naomi-Lynn Miller
Cameron Zimmerman
Darisse Rancap
Ryan McDowell
Isaac Ferraro
Joshua Stark-Dykeman
Jess Macinko
Nathalie Peterson
Sara Anders
Justin Pipkins
Kevin Richardson

Old business

Advertising/Recruitment

Members are continuing one on one recruitment
- Members are encouraged to get resume online, the Navy looks at the resumes
- Members are encourage to help write documents

Finances/Fund Raising

Slow March to an online presence in social media is required
Raymond and Joel are talking to the Dean about the fundraising and the Faculty Member that will handle the bank account
- Still waiting for word on when we can start fundraising

Business Cards

500 have been ordered/received
Business cards are a tool to get people to OCRobotX website, and brand exposure.

Current EE Club Project: Holonomic Drive Robot

Dylan and Joel reporting on progress of holonomic test drone

Dylan showed the design conception on the suspension
Joel talked about the code and how a holonomic bot works and the relevance to the RobotX competition

New business

Recruiting for RobotX Project

Club discussed creating "intro videos" to streamline new member introduction
Facebook page is up
- Requests for volunteers to manage the social networking aps i.e. Facebook, Instagram
Presentation of business cards was made
- Business Cards will passed out to members at the first opportunity

Possible Pot Luck/Barbecue

Jess discussed doing a pot luck, further discussion on the matter shouls happen
- Strategy for meeting, possibly in July once stay at home orders are lifted
- What kind of social gathering?
- What food accommodations?

Possible attendance of some team members to 2020 competition

a discussion was initiated about some team members going to Hawaii in December to attend the RobotX competition
maybe the team can help raise money to send someone
team members who can acquire the money should go for a couple days to experience the competition
more information is forth coming

Internships for Junior Members was discussed

Joel will follow up with information from the Navy on intern/scholarship programs available for some of the team members
USAJOBS.Gov is the place to apply

Next Meeting

Next meeting planned in 2 weeks, June 4th, 2020

Approval of minutes

A motion was made by Joel Martin and seconded by Raymond Simpson to adjourn and approve the minutes of the 21May2020 meeting. Motion carried.

Adjournment

The meeting was officially adjourned at 1642. Respectfully Submitted by Raymond Simpson