Hello Animal Science Club!
I hope everyone is having a great Spring Break! Here are the minutes from last week's meeting:
Guest Speaker from AgrAbility
Sally Van Schaik came to talk to us about AgrAbility and how the organization has helped disabled farmers succeed in agriculture. Sometimes they need groups to help in building stairs, etc., so she will be in contact with us in the event that they could use our assistance with such a project. Also, she asked that if anyone has questions or ideas, or if you'd like to attend their Advisory Committee meeting, then you should contact her at svanschaik@gt.esdel.org or 877-204-FARM (3276). Our club has helped fund some of their projects, and Sally wanted to express her thanks for our generous donations. Before she left, we presented her with a check for AgrAbility in the amount of $595, which we raised during the auction for Ag Carnival.
Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,029.30
Banquet
You can still email Robert (rcgood@udel.edu) about food choices for our Banquet at Timothy's on Wednesday, May 10th. Here are our choices for side dishes, meat and dessert.
CHOOSE 2Queen Prime RibSirloin Au PoiveChicken MarsalaBroiled Flounder Buerre Blanc (Served in butter & White Wine Sauce)Asian Vegetable Stir FryChicken KievJerk Pork ChopsChicken Cordon Bleu
Served meals come with same sides and dessert options
CHOOSE 2Long Grained Curried RiceFresh Steamed Assorted VegetablesBaked PotatoCole SlawMashed PotatoesMacaroni & Cheese
CHOOSE 1Fresh Hot Apple Pie a la modeNY Style CheesecakeAssorted Dessert Plate
All entrees are served with tossed or Caesar salad, hot tea, coffee or iced tea
High School Judging/Quiz Bowl Competition
A meeting was scheduled (for outside of club business meetings) to discuss this idea further. If you are still interested in being a member of this committee, please email Jenna at jscib@udel.edu.
Service Activity
Steve Cook's didn't happen last Sunday, because the people who went got lost. In order to prevent this confusion for future trips to Steve Cook's farm, we talked about possibly posting directions to Steve's on our website. Unfortunately, the rest of our semester is rather busy, and Steve is busy throughout April, so we will not be able to reschedule Steve Cook's for this semester. Instead, as another service activity, we will look into helping out at the Delaware Humane Association sometime in April.
Animal Technician/Intern Needed
Melissa Goodson, a 2005 Animal Science UD Alumnus, wanted to spread the word that her company, Huntingdon Life Sciences, is expanding their toxicology department and is looking for technicians. This is a great opportunity for graduating Seniors looking for jobs in the field, or for an undergraduate who would like an internship for the Summer. Huntingdon Life Sciences, situated in central New Jersey, is one of the world's largest Contract Research Organizations. For more information, you can either get in contact with Melissa (862-432-6688) or you can check out the HLS website at http://www.huntingdon.com/.
Alright. That concludes the minutes from last week's meeting. Enjoy the rest of your Spring Break... and we look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Wednesday, 4/5 at 5:30pm in MEM 111.
~Jess Hall
ANSC Club Secretary
Monday, March 27, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Hello Animal Science Club!
I hope everyone had a lovely Saint Patrick's Day! Here are the minutes from last week's meeting:
Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,118.79
Committee Reports
Service: Helping out at Steve Cook's is today, Sunday. A few members from the club will give a dairy tour for the disabled woman at around 4pm on Wednesday, April 19th (email dsmarsh@udel.edu if interested in helping!). Also, we will be having our AgrAbility Speaker, Sally, come talk to the club on Wednesday, March 22nd.
Pre-Vet: Dr. Pope was contacted and is really interested in talking to the club. He will be our Pre-Vet guest speaker on Wednesday, April 19th.
Livestock: We will have a guest speaker form Purdue on Wednesday, April 12th. Also, if you have any ideas concerning future Livestock committee-run activities, please email Kaitlyn at kaitlyn@udel.edu. A few suggestions included a behind-the-scenes tour at the Philadelphia Zoo or a visit to an Amish Farm.
Fundraising: Our Fundraising Committee Chair was not at the meeting, so we will discuss Plant Sale Forms and a date/location for the Car Wash at the next meeting.
Social: Our Banquet will be Timothy's on Wednesday, May 10th. Here are our choices for side dishes, meat and dessert. Please e-mail Robert at rcgood@udel.edu with your votes on the three items before Wednesday's meeting!
CHOOSE 2Queen Prime RibSirloin Au PoiveChicken MarsalaBroiled Flounder Buerre Blanc (Served in butter & White Wine Sauce)Asian Vegetable Stir FryChicken KievJerk Pork ChopsChicken Cordon Bleu
Served meals come with same sides and dessert options
CHOOSE 2Long Grained Curried RiceFresh Steamed Assorted VegetablesBaked PotatoCole SlawMashed PotatoesMacaroni & Cheese
CHOOSE 1Fresh Hot Apple Pie a la modeNY Style CheesecakeAssorted Dessert Plate
All entrees are served with tossed or Caesar salad, hot tea, coffee or iced tea.
*Reminder to Committee Chairs: Please fill out event reports online on the Club's webpage!
Ag Day
We discussed some potential crafts for Ag Day, including picture frames, pig noses, duck or elephant puppets, or general paperbag puppets. We will finalize our Craft options at a future meeting. Also, we brainstormed some ideas for our educational posters, such as posters with farm animal information or interactive posters with velcro animals. We decided that the club will break-up into committees after Spring Break to further discuss/outline poster ideas. Instead of handmaking our posters this year, we thought we'd take it one step further and get them printed out (possibly laminated?). Dr. Griffiths also suggested that we include a "Who are you, and where are you now?" poster with pictures of Alumni and post-it-notes, so that Alumni can fill in their information. Lastly, concerning Ag Day t-shirts, Carolyn will get them printed at Taylor's Inc. If you are interested in getting an Animal Science Club Ag Day T-shirt, please contact Carolyn at cschnek@udel.edu.
High School Judging/Quiz Bowl Competition
Dr. Griffith's reported back on the Department's discussion of our High School Judging/Quiz Bowl Competition idea. The Department had a few primary concerns about our competition. First of all, they feel that we need to redefine our audience. We had originally intended our competition to be open to Delaware FFA and 4H clubs and Delaware High School students, with the hopes that this competition would get these students interested in possibly pursuing our program at UD. However, most Ag High School students aren't college-bound. So, we would need to redefine our population of interest to either Delaware Ag clubs or Delaware High School students, because these two populations are very different, and it would be hard to accommodate them both. Next, there is little to no support among the faculty to hold the livestock judging aspect of our competition. There are many reasons against livestock judging, namely, our farm doesn't have good classes of animals to judge from. Although one of our attempts with this competition is to "get the College of Ag back to 'Ag'," we have to keep in mind what is contemporary in the field. And the fact is, the field is moving away from livestock judging and focusing more on form and function. So we need to rethink a lot of things concerning our goals for this competition. If we leave out judging, should we have more of an academic triathlon? Also, perhaps we should include the Food Science Club? These are just a few of the concerns we need to address before we can move forward.
We would like to establish a committee that will be responsible for organizing this competition. If you are interested in being a member of the committee, please email Jenna at jscib@udel.edu.
Social Activity
Thanks to Robert, we had an Animal Science-related game of Jeopardy. Good game, everyone!
Alright. That concludes the minutes from last week's meeting. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Wednesday, 3/22. at 5:30pm in MEM 111. Remember that we will have our AgrAbility speaker at Wednesday's meeting!
~Jess Hall
ANSC Club Secretary
I hope everyone had a lovely Saint Patrick's Day! Here are the minutes from last week's meeting:
Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,118.79
Committee Reports
Service: Helping out at Steve Cook's is today, Sunday. A few members from the club will give a dairy tour for the disabled woman at around 4pm on Wednesday, April 19th (email dsmarsh@udel.edu if interested in helping!). Also, we will be having our AgrAbility Speaker, Sally, come talk to the club on Wednesday, March 22nd.
Pre-Vet: Dr. Pope was contacted and is really interested in talking to the club. He will be our Pre-Vet guest speaker on Wednesday, April 19th.
Livestock: We will have a guest speaker form Purdue on Wednesday, April 12th. Also, if you have any ideas concerning future Livestock committee-run activities, please email Kaitlyn at kaitlyn@udel.edu. A few suggestions included a behind-the-scenes tour at the Philadelphia Zoo or a visit to an Amish Farm.
Fundraising: Our Fundraising Committee Chair was not at the meeting, so we will discuss Plant Sale Forms and a date/location for the Car Wash at the next meeting.
Social: Our Banquet will be Timothy's on Wednesday, May 10th. Here are our choices for side dishes, meat and dessert. Please e-mail Robert at rcgood@udel.edu with your votes on the three items before Wednesday's meeting!
CHOOSE 2Queen Prime RibSirloin Au PoiveChicken MarsalaBroiled Flounder Buerre Blanc (Served in butter & White Wine Sauce)Asian Vegetable Stir FryChicken KievJerk Pork ChopsChicken Cordon Bleu
Served meals come with same sides and dessert options
CHOOSE 2Long Grained Curried RiceFresh Steamed Assorted VegetablesBaked PotatoCole SlawMashed PotatoesMacaroni & Cheese
CHOOSE 1Fresh Hot Apple Pie a la modeNY Style CheesecakeAssorted Dessert Plate
All entrees are served with tossed or Caesar salad, hot tea, coffee or iced tea.
*Reminder to Committee Chairs: Please fill out event reports online on the Club's webpage!
Ag Day
We discussed some potential crafts for Ag Day, including picture frames, pig noses, duck or elephant puppets, or general paperbag puppets. We will finalize our Craft options at a future meeting. Also, we brainstormed some ideas for our educational posters, such as posters with farm animal information or interactive posters with velcro animals. We decided that the club will break-up into committees after Spring Break to further discuss/outline poster ideas. Instead of handmaking our posters this year, we thought we'd take it one step further and get them printed out (possibly laminated?). Dr. Griffiths also suggested that we include a "Who are you, and where are you now?" poster with pictures of Alumni and post-it-notes, so that Alumni can fill in their information. Lastly, concerning Ag Day t-shirts, Carolyn will get them printed at Taylor's Inc. If you are interested in getting an Animal Science Club Ag Day T-shirt, please contact Carolyn at cschnek@udel.edu.
High School Judging/Quiz Bowl Competition
Dr. Griffith's reported back on the Department's discussion of our High School Judging/Quiz Bowl Competition idea. The Department had a few primary concerns about our competition. First of all, they feel that we need to redefine our audience. We had originally intended our competition to be open to Delaware FFA and 4H clubs and Delaware High School students, with the hopes that this competition would get these students interested in possibly pursuing our program at UD. However, most Ag High School students aren't college-bound. So, we would need to redefine our population of interest to either Delaware Ag clubs or Delaware High School students, because these two populations are very different, and it would be hard to accommodate them both. Next, there is little to no support among the faculty to hold the livestock judging aspect of our competition. There are many reasons against livestock judging, namely, our farm doesn't have good classes of animals to judge from. Although one of our attempts with this competition is to "get the College of Ag back to 'Ag'," we have to keep in mind what is contemporary in the field. And the fact is, the field is moving away from livestock judging and focusing more on form and function. So we need to rethink a lot of things concerning our goals for this competition. If we leave out judging, should we have more of an academic triathlon? Also, perhaps we should include the Food Science Club? These are just a few of the concerns we need to address before we can move forward.
We would like to establish a committee that will be responsible for organizing this competition. If you are interested in being a member of the committee, please email Jenna at jscib@udel.edu.
Social Activity
Thanks to Robert, we had an Animal Science-related game of Jeopardy. Good game, everyone!
Alright. That concludes the minutes from last week's meeting. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Wednesday, 3/22. at 5:30pm in MEM 111. Remember that we will have our AgrAbility speaker at Wednesday's meeting!
~Jess Hall
ANSC Club Secretary
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Hello ANSC Club!
Hopefully everyone had a wonderful weekend. Here are the minutes from last week's meeting:
Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,074.30
Committee Reports
Service: Unfortunately, Steve Cook cannot accommodate us for the April 22nd date...however, he really needs help on March 18th or 19th. So if enough people could/can want to go, we could go on the 19th (next Sunday). Anyone who is interested should please email Danielle (dsmarsh@udel.edu) asap so she can be in touch with Steve! A few members from the club will give a dairy tour for the disabled woman at around 4pm on Wednesday, April 19th (email dsmarsh@udel.edu if interested in helping!). Also, we will be having our AgrAbility Speaker come talk to the club on Wednesday, March 22nd.
Pre-Vet: Concerning a Pre-Vet speaker for March 22nd, a few different people have been emailed, including a researcher on campus and an Army Corp. Vet. More information about our speaker next meeting.
Livestock: We will have a guest speaker form Purdue on Wednesday, April 12th.
Fundraising: The club voted on whether or not to hold a Car Wash or a Dog Wash or both. We decided to just concentrate on a Car Wash, and the location/date of the Car Wash will be discussed next meeting.
Social: We voted and decided that the location of our Banquet will be Timothy's, and it will be held on Wednesday, May 10th (clear your calendars!). Robert will look up a tentative menu and the club will be given options to choose from at a future date. Also, the club will discuss prices/person when it gets closer to the Banquet. *Reminder to Committee Chairs: Please fill out event reports online on the Club's webpage!
Regionals
Amanda took our thank-you card and cakes to the ANSC office on Monday. Also, notice that our accomplishments at NESA made it into Talk of Townsend... once again, congratulations to everyone who participated! Check out our website for photos from Regionals. http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/ansci/
Ag Day T-shirt Vote
We voted on a club t-shirt design for Ag Day at the meeting. The club decided on Carolyn's idea with the "Duck, Duck, Blue Hen" theme. Please contact Carolyn if you would be interested in a shirt (cschnek@udel.edu).
Ag Day
As in previous years, the club will have a petting zoo, face painting, educational displays, and arts & crafts at Ag Day. Please start thinking of craft ideas, and we will vote on them at this week's meeting. Also, start thinking of ideas for our educational displays. (We will work on our posters/displays at the few meetings right before Ag Day.) Not only will our club need lots of help from members on Ag Day, but the Ag Day Class is also asking for volunteers. Please contact Sarah Moore at smoo@udel.edu if you are interested in volunteering. Also, consider submitting t-shirt ideas to the t-shirt design competition held by the Ag Day Class. Lastly, the club voted to donate money to Ag Day so that we will get our name put on the official Ag Day shirts.
High School Judging/Quiz Bowl Competition
Amanda and Jenna met with Dr. Gelb, the ANSC department chair, to discuss the practicality of our idea to hold an ANSC competition for Delaware High School students. They told him what we plan on doing and how it will benefit the ANSC Club and the Ag College. Dr. Gelb was enthusiastic about the idea, but he will have to discuss it with other faculty members at the next Department meeting. Dr. Gelb recommended that we keep it small-scale (just Delaware FFA clubs and High School students), and that we start looking into budgeting and donations. Also, we will need to set up a committee that will be responsible for planning this event, which we anticipate will be held in the Fall. Please start thinking about if you'd like to be a part/head of this committee.
Alright. That concludes the minutes from last week's meeting. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Wednesday the 15th at 5:30pm in MEM 111.
~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary
Hopefully everyone had a wonderful weekend. Here are the minutes from last week's meeting:
Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,074.30
Committee Reports
Service: Unfortunately, Steve Cook cannot accommodate us for the April 22nd date...however, he really needs help on March 18th or 19th. So if enough people could/can want to go, we could go on the 19th (next Sunday). Anyone who is interested should please email Danielle (dsmarsh@udel.edu) asap so she can be in touch with Steve! A few members from the club will give a dairy tour for the disabled woman at around 4pm on Wednesday, April 19th (email dsmarsh@udel.edu if interested in helping!). Also, we will be having our AgrAbility Speaker come talk to the club on Wednesday, March 22nd.
Pre-Vet: Concerning a Pre-Vet speaker for March 22nd, a few different people have been emailed, including a researcher on campus and an Army Corp. Vet. More information about our speaker next meeting.
Livestock: We will have a guest speaker form Purdue on Wednesday, April 12th.
Fundraising: The club voted on whether or not to hold a Car Wash or a Dog Wash or both. We decided to just concentrate on a Car Wash, and the location/date of the Car Wash will be discussed next meeting.
Social: We voted and decided that the location of our Banquet will be Timothy's, and it will be held on Wednesday, May 10th (clear your calendars!). Robert will look up a tentative menu and the club will be given options to choose from at a future date. Also, the club will discuss prices/person when it gets closer to the Banquet. *Reminder to Committee Chairs: Please fill out event reports online on the Club's webpage!
Regionals
Amanda took our thank-you card and cakes to the ANSC office on Monday. Also, notice that our accomplishments at NESA made it into Talk of Townsend... once again, congratulations to everyone who participated! Check out our website for photos from Regionals. http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/ansci/
Ag Day T-shirt Vote
We voted on a club t-shirt design for Ag Day at the meeting. The club decided on Carolyn's idea with the "Duck, Duck, Blue Hen" theme. Please contact Carolyn if you would be interested in a shirt (cschnek@udel.edu).
Ag Day
As in previous years, the club will have a petting zoo, face painting, educational displays, and arts & crafts at Ag Day. Please start thinking of craft ideas, and we will vote on them at this week's meeting. Also, start thinking of ideas for our educational displays. (We will work on our posters/displays at the few meetings right before Ag Day.) Not only will our club need lots of help from members on Ag Day, but the Ag Day Class is also asking for volunteers. Please contact Sarah Moore at smoo@udel.edu if you are interested in volunteering. Also, consider submitting t-shirt ideas to the t-shirt design competition held by the Ag Day Class. Lastly, the club voted to donate money to Ag Day so that we will get our name put on the official Ag Day shirts.
High School Judging/Quiz Bowl Competition
Amanda and Jenna met with Dr. Gelb, the ANSC department chair, to discuss the practicality of our idea to hold an ANSC competition for Delaware High School students. They told him what we plan on doing and how it will benefit the ANSC Club and the Ag College. Dr. Gelb was enthusiastic about the idea, but he will have to discuss it with other faculty members at the next Department meeting. Dr. Gelb recommended that we keep it small-scale (just Delaware FFA clubs and High School students), and that we start looking into budgeting and donations. Also, we will need to set up a committee that will be responsible for planning this event, which we anticipate will be held in the Fall. Please start thinking about if you'd like to be a part/head of this committee.
Alright. That concludes the minutes from last week's meeting. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Wednesday the 15th at 5:30pm in MEM 111.
~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Howdy ANSC Club!
Here's the minutes from Wednesday's meeting, which was held at the lovely California Tortilla on Main Street. Thank you, Robert, for organizing our meeting's special location!
Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,074.30
Committee Reports
Service: We are scheduled to help out on Steve Cook's Farm on April 19th. Danielle will be contacting Barbara Graham at the Mary Campbell center to set up a dairy tour for the disabled woman. Also, we will be having our AgrAbility Speaker come talk to the club on Wednesday, March 22nd. In order to publicize this event so that others interested in AgrAbility may come listen to our speaker, we will put an advertisement in Talk of Townsend and put in a plug at AgCC.
Pre-Vet: More information on Pre-Vet speakers at future meetings.
Livestock: Concerning guest speakers, we are waiting to hear back from the Purdue representative. We will provide further details on Livestock speakers/trips at future meetings.
Fundraising: We will start advertising for our Plant Sale around April 1st. As far as other fundraising ideas, we hope to have another Car Wash when it gets warmer, and we also talked about potentially doing a Dog Wash. The club has had problems with Dog Washes in the past, so we need to discuss this idea further. If you have any other fundraising ideas, please contact Jenna at jscib@udel.edu.
Social: We're still discussing the location for our Banquet. Possible places include The Tracks or Timothy's. The Social committee will look into places/prices and have more information at next meeting.
*Reminder to Committee Chairs: Please fill out event reports online on the Club's webpage!
Regionals Report
Everyone who went to Regionals (NESA) this past weekend at UMass had an excellent time. And not only did we all have lots of fun, but we also did rather well for ourselves. The events started early Saturday morning with livestock judging, where we were all surprised to see that the "special class" was not alpaca (which we had studied how to judge the night before!) but tobacco leaves. (Apparently the Amherst area is big on Tobacco.) Then after judging livestock in the freezing cold, we braved our way through the snow to UMass' campus for the Quiz Bowl competitions and Research presentations. For the Quiz Bowl, one of our teams came in 2nd place, and they actually got to play the final round in front of everyone in a huge auditorium! Some other highlights were Erin McDowell for placing 6th in the Paper Presentations (thank you to Danielle Smarsh for donating your PowerPoint presentation!), Carolyn Schnek for winning 1st place in the Individual Research competition, and congratulations to all of our team members for helping Delaware place 4th for the overall competition!! Everyone did an awesome job! And to thank Dr. Gelb and the ANSC Department for covering our hotel costs at Regionals, a Thank You card was sent around at the meeting, and we plan on leaving a cake in the ANSC department office for the secretaries and faculty. We're all very proud of our club's success, and here's to future wins at NESA!
Ag Day
We're still discussing Ag Day T-shirt ideas. Carolyn came up with an idea of playing on "Duck, duck, goose," but instead of a goose, using a blue hen. Her idea is included at the end of the minutes. Please draw up any other T-shirt ideas you may have, and we'll vote on them at the next meeting.
Other
-The Extension Scholars program applications are due April 7th.
-Amanda received an alumni email from Karen Knutsen, who suggested that we include a column in the next alumni newsletter about what alumni are doing. The club also thought of possibly setting up a Yahoo account for alumni to log in and tell us about where they are now and what they're doing. If you have any suggestions on how we can keep tabs on our alumni, please email Amanda at akilby@udel.edu.
-Those who went to Regionals were so enthusiastic about their experience, that some of the club members have expressed interest in possibly hosting a high school-level judging and quiz bowl competition next year here at UD. This is a big idea that would require lots of help and commitment, but if we'd like to host something like this in the future, then it's important that we start thinking about it now. However, we should also keep in mind that it may be Delaware's turn to host Regionals in 2010! (The last time UD hosted Regionals was in '96.) In any case, if you'd be interested in helping out with something of this nature, please voice your opinions at future meetings, or email Amanda at akilby@udel.edu.
Alright. That's it for this week's minutes. Have a great weekend, everyone! And see you at next week's meeting on Wednesday, 3/8 at 5:30pm in Memorial 111.
~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary
Here's the minutes from Wednesday's meeting, which was held at the lovely California Tortilla on Main Street. Thank you, Robert, for organizing our meeting's special location!
Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,074.30
Committee Reports
Service: We are scheduled to help out on Steve Cook's Farm on April 19th. Danielle will be contacting Barbara Graham at the Mary Campbell center to set up a dairy tour for the disabled woman. Also, we will be having our AgrAbility Speaker come talk to the club on Wednesday, March 22nd. In order to publicize this event so that others interested in AgrAbility may come listen to our speaker, we will put an advertisement in Talk of Townsend and put in a plug at AgCC.
Pre-Vet: More information on Pre-Vet speakers at future meetings.
Livestock: Concerning guest speakers, we are waiting to hear back from the Purdue representative. We will provide further details on Livestock speakers/trips at future meetings.
Fundraising: We will start advertising for our Plant Sale around April 1st. As far as other fundraising ideas, we hope to have another Car Wash when it gets warmer, and we also talked about potentially doing a Dog Wash. The club has had problems with Dog Washes in the past, so we need to discuss this idea further. If you have any other fundraising ideas, please contact Jenna at jscib@udel.edu.
Social: We're still discussing the location for our Banquet. Possible places include The Tracks or Timothy's. The Social committee will look into places/prices and have more information at next meeting.
*Reminder to Committee Chairs: Please fill out event reports online on the Club's webpage!
Regionals Report
Everyone who went to Regionals (NESA) this past weekend at UMass had an excellent time. And not only did we all have lots of fun, but we also did rather well for ourselves. The events started early Saturday morning with livestock judging, where we were all surprised to see that the "special class" was not alpaca (which we had studied how to judge the night before!) but tobacco leaves. (Apparently the Amherst area is big on Tobacco.) Then after judging livestock in the freezing cold, we braved our way through the snow to UMass' campus for the Quiz Bowl competitions and Research presentations. For the Quiz Bowl, one of our teams came in 2nd place, and they actually got to play the final round in front of everyone in a huge auditorium! Some other highlights were Erin McDowell for placing 6th in the Paper Presentations (thank you to Danielle Smarsh for donating your PowerPoint presentation!), Carolyn Schnek for winning 1st place in the Individual Research competition, and congratulations to all of our team members for helping Delaware place 4th for the overall competition!! Everyone did an awesome job! And to thank Dr. Gelb and the ANSC Department for covering our hotel costs at Regionals, a Thank You card was sent around at the meeting, and we plan on leaving a cake in the ANSC department office for the secretaries and faculty. We're all very proud of our club's success, and here's to future wins at NESA!
Ag Day
We're still discussing Ag Day T-shirt ideas. Carolyn came up with an idea of playing on "Duck, duck, goose," but instead of a goose, using a blue hen. Her idea is included at the end of the minutes. Please draw up any other T-shirt ideas you may have, and we'll vote on them at the next meeting.
Other
-The Extension Scholars program applications are due April 7th.
-Amanda received an alumni email from Karen Knutsen, who suggested that we include a column in the next alumni newsletter about what alumni are doing. The club also thought of possibly setting up a Yahoo account for alumni to log in and tell us about where they are now and what they're doing. If you have any suggestions on how we can keep tabs on our alumni, please email Amanda at akilby@udel.edu.
-Those who went to Regionals were so enthusiastic about their experience, that some of the club members have expressed interest in possibly hosting a high school-level judging and quiz bowl competition next year here at UD. This is a big idea that would require lots of help and commitment, but if we'd like to host something like this in the future, then it's important that we start thinking about it now. However, we should also keep in mind that it may be Delaware's turn to host Regionals in 2010! (The last time UD hosted Regionals was in '96.) In any case, if you'd be interested in helping out with something of this nature, please voice your opinions at future meetings, or email Amanda at akilby@udel.edu.
Alright. That's it for this week's minutes. Have a great weekend, everyone! And see you at next week's meeting on Wednesday, 3/8 at 5:30pm in Memorial 111.
~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary
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