Alexandra Taylor's Individual Contribution Page

Fall 2009 Contributions

Part I

This semester I have been the leader of the Outreach Team.  I coordinated the Fall 2009 budget for the AguaClara Club and maintained the Outreach Calendar.  I scheduled and attended most of the 1050 presentations, and created a more extensive explanation of these presentations for the Wiki.  In the next weeks I plan to find a way to make the general presentation PowerPoint available online so that it doesn't have to be accessed from the lab.  Maju and I wrote and designed this semester's alumni newsletter.  We created a template based on this letter, which I attached to Newsletter Guidelines.  I worked on the sponsorship package and helped in planning the upcoming benefit concert with the AguaClara club.  I created a Demo Plant Manual based on the draft that I found on the Wiki, making an effort to incorporate information that I learned from operating the plant. The manual can be found here. I tabled with Julie and Ashleigh on Ho-Plaza for Campus Sustainability Day. With the assistance of Maju and Alex Matthews, I created the PowerPoint for our teach-in presentation. I tried to consolidate the Outreach Resources page to make the Children Pages more succinct, and added caveats to the pages that have out-dated attachments. These are the main projects I've worked on this semester; the next two endeavors are the sponsorship package and the benefit concert. So far, both are coming along slowly but surely.

Part II

The benefit concert was a success; we earned $1205 dollars which will be sent to the foundation on Dec. 3rd, 2009. The first draft of the sponsorship package is also complete and being reviewed by Cornell staff. I presented with the Outreach Team and Monroe at First Congregational Church which went well. Monroe gave suggestions for modifying the PowerPoint; Maju and I created a new PowerPoint and we sent it to Monroe for approval.  The PowerPoint will need to be edited further.  Thank You cards have been designed, but this is a task that will most likely need to be taken on by the Spring Outreach Team.