The Tau Beta Pi Association California Alpha Chapter
Chapter Project Report Fall 2003
Candidate Meeting #2
October 16, 2003

PEOPLE TIME BENEFIT TO TBP
Total number to plan & arrange: 3 Average hours per person for activity: 2 Social   X
Number of Members: 0 Average hours per person to plan: 2 Service  _
Number of Candidates: 0     Fundraiser  _
Total number participating: 80 MONEY Candidate Requirement  X
Number of Members: 30 Total Expenses: $280.00 Image  _
Number of Candidates: 57 Total Income: $0.00 Tradition  _
This meeting allowed everyone to socialize and start getting to know each other better. It was also a chance to clarify the candidate requirements and explain the Photoscavenger Hunt and Potluck requirements in more detail.

Project Description

At the second candidate meeting, we began by giving announcements about upcoming events and again explaining candidate requirements. Next we passed out catalog cards and had the candidates fill them out as we proceeded to explain the scavenger hunt and group potluck requirements. Then we split people into their groups and held a mini-scavenger hunt to kick off the event. Finally, we ate dinner and many groups worked on getting some of their photos taken.

Event Preparation

Primary event planners were Brian Love, Peter Masatani, Amar Patel and Kathy Wong. President Brian Love reserved the Wozniak Lounge from 5pm to 8pm far in advance of the meeting in May 2003 for all candidate meetings this semester. Room reservations for Soda Hall rooms can be made at the website http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Resguide/CS/sodasched.shtml. Peter divided up the candidates in 10 groups of 6 candidates and 2 officers, making sure that all engineering diciplines were represented in each group. Amar and Peter thought up ideas for the photoscavenger hunt with the help of the officer core. For the mini-scavenger hunt, we used ideas from the previous year. Amar created the instructions for and photoscavenger hunt and group potluck and made several copies for each group (2/group for each officer). Amar bought 9 cameras from costco ($11.79/3 cameras) and 1 camera from Walgreens ($6.99) for the photo hunt. Peter brought the catalog cards from 220 Bechtel. Kathy and activities bought $280.00 of food from Gypsys which is located in the Asian ghetto. After giving announcements about upcoming events and passing out catalog cards, the Vps split people into thier groups and started of the photo hunt with a mini scavenger hunt, sending the groups off to find things around campus. After succesfully completing the hunt, groups took photos and mingled while having dinner.

Problems Encountered

One of the items on the mini-scavenger hunt list was impossible to find. If the Vps use the same list of items in the future, do not use the "find an old tbp flier" one because there aren't that many of them around.

Improvements Suggested

It was difficult to explain the photoscavenger hunt and the group potluck requirements to the candidates. We only printed out instructions for the officers in each group. It may be a good idea to print out instructions for everyone (this costs more money). Also, remember to write the group number on each camera so they don't get mixed up at the meeting.

Enjoyment

Most people enjoyed the mini-scavenger hunt and definitely enjoyed being creative in taking photographs for the photoscavenger hunt. The small groups were a successful way to get people to interact. I would suggest continuing the scavenger hunt idea in the future.

Appendix

Members participating: Menzies Chen, Nathan Cheng, Shawn Cheng, Peter Chien, Jeffrey Chung, Ryan Doan, Arthur Hebert, Robert Hennessy, Bonnie Huang, Jennifer Hwang, Brian Lee, Cindy Lee, James Li, Brian Love, Pascal Martin, Peter Masatani, Juan McKinney, Diana Nguyen, Andy Pascall, Anthony Paganini, Amar Patel, Priam Pillai, Mike Schou, Isaac Seetho, Jiong Shen, Wonsop Sim, Bill Trac, Eddie Wang, Kathy Wong, Jeffrey Woo

Candidates participating: Naveed Ahmad, Anjuli Appapillai, Anthony Azevedo, Abraham Bachrach, Heather Bischel, Derek Chan, Jason Chan, Jason Chang, Jay Chen, Liang (Ryan) Chen, Po-kai Chen, Philip Cheng, Yee Fung Cheung, Eileen Chu, Yue Jack Chu, Sanjay Dastoor, Peter Do, Philip Godoy, Germaine Goh, Vikram Gowrish, Amy (Yu-Ching) Hsiao, Dennis Hsu, Wensheng (David) Huang, Sophi Ionova, Wayne Jay, Alexander Kan, Irene Kang, Liliya Krivulina, Steven Kusalo, Daisy Lee, Xiao Ming Mabel Li, David Ta-Hsiang Lin, Jacqueline Luk, Jin Luo, Nam Mai, David Mason, Austin Minnich, Sahand Negahban, Adam Neugebauer, Marowen Ng, Serouj Ourishian, Sungkook Park, Heena Patel, Ta-Ming Shih, Jeff Heng-Wen Shiue, Grace Chen Ling Soh, Jue Sun, Mihir Tendulkar, Gregory Thorne, Anna Tsai, Gareth Pierce Williams, Angela Wu, Karen Yang, Yong Yang, Hung-liang Yen, Sharon Yen, Ying Peng Yeo

This report was submitted by Amar Patel (Vice President) at apatel@tbp.berkeley.edu on Saturday, October 25, 2003 at 19:00:13 (PDT)