Narayana Pappu's Individual Contribution Page

Spring 2009 Contributions

This is my third semester as a member of Aguaclara student project team and the second as a member of Outreach group. The semester started with new members, a new group leader and a task to make the project sustainable commerically as well as increase the project's awareness among student community on-campus and outside. At the beginning of the semester outreach team was sub-divided into two different groups (Fundraising and Public relations) and because of my experience with fundraising in the past I joined the sub-group with an individual responsibility of prepare a constitution for Aguaclara student project team and register the group with the Office of student affairs in Cornell when the mortatorium ends.  Throughout the Spring 2009 Semester I have helped to isolate potential grants including the Inter American Agency, applied for and received the National Science Foundation's grant to the Engineering Sustainability conference in Pittsburgh, submitted a summary for the Bio-engineering poster expo at Cornell and researched and compiled a list of Microfinance organizations based in Honduras. I worked with Jake to write and fine tune (through class discussion we both conducted) the constitution for Aguaclara student project team. I also helped Joe with the sample budget and other documents required to submit the grant by the Inter American Foundation.

Spring 2008 Contributions

The semester began with getting to know the new members of the outreach group and familarizing myself with the new organizational structure of the group. During the very first meeting we decided that it would be a idea to sub-divide the group into Public Relations and Fundraising, with close working relationship with one and the other. Because of my prior experience writing grants I chose to join the Fund raising group along with Joe and Jake. As a new member to AguaClara the first few weeks were spent gaining an understanding of how AguaClara worked and what the Outreach team was charged with.

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