Kline Leadership Bootcamp 9/9/23 notes

Kline Leadership Bootcamp 9/9/23 notes

People who attended from rocketry:

@Garrett Hart

@Osornio, Cesar

@Vann Wellmon

 

Agenda:

8:45-9:15 am Arrival (snacks will be provided)

9:15-9:30 am Introductions and Welcome with Tom Rogge and Dr. Stamper

9:30-10:00 am Career Services with Pamela Scott

10:00-11:00 am Campus Groups and Purchasing with Kristen Merchant

11:00-12:00 pm Technical Resources with Campus Technicians

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch provided by McAllister’s Deli

1:00-1:30 pm Social Media and Marketing/SGA with Courtney Valmore and Kimmie Collins

1:30-2:00 pm Team Recruitment with Thomas Bear

2:00-2:30 pm Fundraising and Donations with Bret Syrek

2:30-3:00 pm Team Updates

3:00-3:15 Wrap-Up with Tom and Lee

 

Aside:

Had a conversation with dr. chambers about getting class credit for comps.

We need to be successful! we need to place! the bic needs results if we ever want more support

Notes:

Advice from stamper:

  • Know the rules of your comp! (same advance from louis)

  • Practice!

    • trade off adding a new feature vs. 2 more weeks of practice. take the practice!

    • Test early, test often

  • Winning teams = more money!?

Career Services with Pamela Scott

  • resume help

  • company contacts

  • negotiate offers

  • career fair is the 27th wed

    • 10-3pm

    • preregister for career fair on monday or tuesday

  • Rose expo in the morning of the career fair

    • get your team in front of employers in the morning

    • possibility to ask for funding

  • Handshake stuff career services has vetted, so you should be able to trust everything

  • There is a career relationship side of career service

    • get company to come talk to our org

    • get company donation

  • NOTE: sam blake was interested in a team resume workshop

    • we are already doing this

    • email about career services bic/kic resume workshop

      • might not be possible for this year but ask

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  • Career readiness week

    • that saturday 11-2 (or similar) jcpenny will offer up to 60% of business wear

    • sat the 16th

    • free headshots

  • SPACEX at bic on tue and thursday

Campus Groups and Purchasing with Kristen Merchant

  • Kristen merchant

    • oversees all student orgs

    • available for questions

    • lots of travel stuff

    • everything campus groups

  • We should be putting our meetings on campus groups

  • Campus groups can collect money if we want to get money for something

    • talk to kristen to make sure our business office account is tied to it

  • The sga accounting budget is in there

    • p-card, invoice, student reimburse

    • otfr request is there

  • can flag and sort members

    • add subteams

    • email only a subteam

  • Member tags

    • officers have to add and can see

  • subgroup

    • anyone can join a subgroup and can see

  • Events,files, emails can be made for subgroups

  • Each year in the spring an org will reregister

    • complete officer training

    • update officers

  • Note on officers:

    • we can make custom officer position types

    • choose officer as the main type and then add a second one

  • Being an officer will allow you to book thing on EMS

  • If we have a different advisor traveling with us, go ahead and add them to campus groups

    • make them as “travel advisor” or something similar for a role

    • don’t put them as the “advisor” role

  • if we use campus groups or teams then the school can get us access

  • campus groups has training courses, checklist, badges, etc

    • can be assigned to subgroups

  • Can view how many people have viewed or opened an email

    • how many an unsubsribed

  • Can change under notification settings what you get email notifications for

    • i.e new members

  • travel

    • use the travel template for an event

    • the date is the time you leave campus to the time you get back to campus

    • for club travel, you have to be a group member

    • can set costs for the travel

      • maybe use this to pay for launch fees??

      • members who are launch their own rocket pay $10. the club will bring cash

    • fill out travel as soon as you can, especially for high risk

      • travel approvals can take time

      • if you still have details, just write that in there to get the process working on

    • What the process on kristen side:

      • kristen is looking for that your advisor knows you are traveling

      • then risk mang. is looking for that you aren’t traveling at midnight or 24hr straight, etc

        • they are looking for who is driving

        • and that those people have the background check to drive

        • the risk mang part normally takes the longest time

      • Then it goes to tom and lee. they do a last check

    • If you are not an approved driver and something happens, its on you!

      • we need to watch this more!

      • rose insurance and not our insurance

    • If you have an advisor with you then we can use the rose fleet vehicles (less than 100 miles)

    • Rose does have a 15 passenger van

      • only within 100 miles

        • our typical launches to pence/tab indiana are less than 100 miles

      • and we have the pay the driver

    • We can use the rose fleet vehicles. but we need an advisor to drive them

    • Enterprise has to be 21 years old to drive

    • in our case of caravaning cars (with students driving own cars and being approved driving)

      • the students are liable for all damages on their insurance

    • talk to tom and lee about getting extra faculty people

    • We can talk to tom and lee and we can try to work out exceptions to make things work out

      • they’ve worked with teams before

    • The RA and SA mailboxes are in student affairs down stairs

      • we can put flyers in those and they get sent to halls

Technical Resources with Campus Technicians

  • Gary Meyer ECE

    • 3d printers

    • laser cutter

    • equipment to checkout

      • o-scope, soldering iron, multimeter, rework

      • lots of others

      • does not need to be back by the end of the day

    • lots of knowledge in the ece shop.

      • stop by for help, design help, trouble shooting

      • help fixing something we messed up

  • ME side

    • 100 years of machining experience

      • john guess

      • design help, machine help

    • stuff to cut keyways

    • vacuum former

    • sand casting for small parts

    • tinsel testing

    • cnc mills

  • Mike halmilton

    • machine shop, 3d print room, capstone hotspace rooms

      • capstone space request

    • shop safety stuff for nab

    • 3d printers in nab, laser cut or engraved

      • nab3dprint@

      • nablaser@

    • can handle overflow of ME shop

    • nab shop is mostly for capstone, BE, and engD

    • 2 axis cnc mills, basically bridgeport

    • cnc lathe, only one other than ventures

  • Tool checkout area across from the shop

    • 10-8 mon - fri

      • need tool back same day

    • scopes, meters, function generator, etc

  • Tom and the BIC

    • 3d printers

      • largely for capstone and comp teams

      • Tom HATES the elephants

    • Consider gifting Tom a very large elephant per his elephant story

      • gift for end of year

      • rocketry logo

    • tube bender

      • we can buy dies

      • tom has room in budget

    • tubing notcher

    • Formlabs 3BL resin printer

    • Develop a list of manufacturing resources for rocketry

    • CNC mill

      • sam blake is running it this year

      • working on training a person on each team

      • can also send an email to sam with a part to make and he can make it

      • It has a 4th axis as well

        • still learning how to use it

    • Wood CNC router is up and running

    • Laser cutter

      • Rachael is a bic worker running the laser cutter

      • it is technically owned by the BIC

        • tom has a key to it

      • can talk to lee to get trained on how to use it

      • talk to sam blake about a rocketry team training day on laser cutter

    • Social Media and Marketing/SGA with Courtney Valmore and Kimmie Collins

    • SGA

      • otfrs

        • encourage to find sponsors

        • will ask why an item or budget is needed

          • will ask if there is another way to do something cheaper

      • recruitment help, other involvement

      • treasurer: Cameron buckmaster

      • meet 6, 8th, and 10th week of fall quarter

    • Marketing

      • use @rosehulman #rosehulman

        • rose can share them

      • swipe gallery and reels get more engagement

        • save reels to a highlight

        • 2022 comp season for example

      • picture does better than a flyer

      • Have a plan for who is posting

      • have a plan for how often / what to post

      • things to post

        • when we have a meeting

        • something on a story from a meeting

      • try doing a small giveaway to get more followers / engagement

      • things look more interesting to others than they seem when posting

      • reach out to courtney or kimmie for help if we want it

      • life at rose account

        • someone take it over during peak season

      • contact david for video shoot in workspace

      • contact bryan for photo shoot in workspace

        • they both are more busy in the spring

      • we can tell them ahead of time to ask them to be at events (work days, build days, etc)

      • email dale long or kimmie collins if we have something that fits an article format

        • awards, competitions, etc

          • getting into clpl

    • Team Recruitment with Thomas Bear

    • when they recruit they try to focus on four hallmarks

      • academics

        • the rankings

      • hands on - experimental learning

        • comp teams fit in

      • community

        • leaving backpacks around campus

      • job placement

        • outcomes you get. ROI

      • a lot of people in the tours, the bic/kic is a big moment

      • a lot students were on comp teams in high school

        • first

        • sci bowl

        • etc

      • How do we get our stories out to prospective students

      • story tell around the 4 hallmarks

      • can we send people to shell eco car championship

      • what can we do for tom bear?

        • they are doing podast in the fall

          • have comp teams join the podcast

        • tom bear interview bic students

    • Fundraising and Donations with Bret Syrek

      • Bret syrek and Dara gard

        • bret

          • contact if we want to talk to alums, donatoins, companies, etc

        • dara

          • crowdsourcing

      • corporate relations officer

        • associate director of anual giving

      • Three things to “donate”

        • time, talent, treasure

      • Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR)

        • gifts in kinds

        • building partnerships

      • difference between corporate and foundation giving

        • foundation: programmatic support and research

        • corporation: workforce development, equipment, etc

      • preparing:

        • discuss within team

        • talk with tom

        • talk with IA (bret or dara)

        • build out sponsor packet

        • get feedback from communications and marketing

        • send out to people

      • support packet

        • case statement

          • why we exist, why they should support

        • what the organization does

        • timeline of events/organization opportunities

        • description of activities

          • embed pictures

          • embed videos

          • pictures do a lot

        • what support we are looking for

          • a lot of people go to money, its flexible

          • what are the other areas?

          • what can we give in return?

            • branding

        • how support will be beneficial

        • what is the benefit to the donor

          • tiered structure

            • 1,000

            • 5,000

            • etc

          • bret can help with tier structure

      • things to watch for

        • conflicting benefits with others across campus

        • things we cannot promise or guarentee

        • fee for service vs philanthropy and tax write off

          • fee for service is not a tax write off

          • not very often a problem

        • timeline

        • tiered amounts

        • desired prospects

          • who are we interested in talking to

          • IA needs to know who we are interested in talking to

            • make sure it doesn’t conflict with others on campus

        • Dara slides - crowdsourcing

          • this is something rocketry should use more!

            • use goals and internal incentives

          • https://www.rose-hulman.edu/givecompetitionteams

          • if we have a specific goal or project then talk to dara

          • talk to dara to update page information

          • individualized for teams

          • students can join the team to make their own fundraisers for a team

          • goals can be changed, pictures can be swapped, text can be edited

          • fundraising is a partnership

            • i know fundraising, you know your team!

          • the funds that were raised go to the designated account

        • open house on tuesday

        • SIGN INTO THE KIOSK!!!!