Hello, Hello, Hello Everyone! So here are the minutes from today's meeting! Thank you for everyone who showed up today! We had more than ten people which is awesome. Let's hope our meetings continue to grow in hope that our Design Club will make it big!

Field Trip Announcement!

Where: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
When: Aiming for Friday 13 March 2009
Time: TBD
Who: All Design Club members and their friends! Anyone is invited. The more the merrier especially since the rate we have to pay to get in depends on the amount of people we get to come. We need at least 15 people in order to try and get an even more discounted rate than 20 dollars! If you would still like to come please contact Anthony Brown at AbtBrown@gmail.com, he has the sign up list.

Although Friday's are probably going to be popular and crowded, if we go at a good time we should be all right with the amount of people we have to encounter. And most students don't have school on Friday so we can take our sweet time :)

• Anthony has filled us in that he had turned in the proposal for the Southern California trip this coming spring break. We will know if we get the funding hopefully by next week. For all of those who do not know anything about this, we are trying to have the school allow and fund us on a trip to Southern California to explore what the other region of California has to offer like architectural programs at universities, notable buildings, museums, firms, etc...
• We are working on ways to promote our club with fliers around campus, but those still need to be approved!
  

Competition Update!

• Design Village at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Please visit Http://designvillage.calpoly.edu for all the information on this competition! Due date for registration is due before April 1. Anything turned in after will be penalized for the fee. SO please please please if you are interested to check out the website and get back to Anthony Brown to add you to the list of those who want to compete! Depending on how many people are willing and determined to join this competition we might possibly have two groups go!
  
• Remember that this is an awesome experience and competing at least once in your lifetime is such a great accomplishment! AND not to mention a competition like this looks good on resumes! ;)

• 2009 Open Architecture Challenge! I just read on our facebook group from Nate B. That there is a design competition that partners up students and designers, some professionals too to design a classroom for the future. I know that everyone has had some type of bad experience in their elementary, middle, high, or college classroom! If you join this competition, you will be able to make sure kids of the future won't have to go through those horrid experiences too! Design the ultimate classroom that is cost effecient and will help the kids better than ever! Here is the link with all the information!
  http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/competitions/challenge/2009

Fundraising Options

• A good portion of today's meeting revolved around the fact that we want to try and be independent as a club when it comes obtaining money! Although the school will fund us for certain activities, we should prove to them that we are able to have our own sources of income as well (it will probably give us brownie points, yeah!). The more we get involved with fundraising the more the activities we want to do will cost less. Here are some of the Ideas we came up with today
• Raffle. A raffle for the club is most likely going to happen. Everyone in the club should go out this weekend and next week to any type of business whether it is a bakeshop, sports store, restaurant, any where and try to get donations! The more donations we get the more we can take 100% profit on it all. For those of you who are trying to go out and get those donations remember to put a smile on no matter what and dress the part. Look cute, talk as sweet as you can, and don't forget to remind them 'it's for a good cause'
• Food Sale / Bake Sale. Who doesn't love baked goods? So for this it is trying to be determined what day or days are good to go. We have to wait for Anthony to get the green light from the administration to sell out in the quad. Ideas are welcome for the types of finger food we can try to offer and baked goods we should do! If you are interested please contact Anthony so he can put you down on the list! Once we know the days and times, we will make sure everyone is contacted in hope that they can pick up a shift to work!
  

Lastly, Everyone received an email from Nadine's email address last night (angela_arteche@yahoo.com), but we've made a new and official Laney Design Club email address that is going to be used. Everyone can contact this email for general questions, anything! the new email is LCdesignclub@gmail.com Most emails will be sent from this email so please check your spam since it's a new address mailing to you all! Thanks!