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08/18/08
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02/25/08
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SOTA Meeting
8/18/08, Monday
OT Lab
- Need volunteers to create a PowerPoint about how we MOTS need an OT lab
- If interested, please contact Elizabeth (ekanny@u.washington.edu)
- Phone-a-thon to contact alumni for donations for OT lab
- If interested in helping to create & /or run it, please contact Elizabeth
- Kickoff event on 10/6/08, ~6pm
- More information to be provided
Committees
- Graduation committee needs co-chairs! And at least 4-5 members
- Tentative location: Urban Horticulture 6/13/09, Saturday
- Committees were introduced/reintroduced
- Updated committee members list will be posted soon
- If you were not available to sign-up, please contact the chair for a committee you would like to join
Incoming Student Orientation Tue, 9/23/08, 10am-4pm @ BB916 & BB938
- Buddies will be arranged into “families” with two c/o 2009 students “adopting” two incoming students
- If you were not available to sign-up, please contact Kelly or Morgan for a family
- “Families” will be posted on the site soon
- Potluck lunch
- If you did not sign up to bring something, please contact Kelly or Morgan
Meet & Greet Thur, 10/2/08, 4:30pm
- Possible locations:
- Gas Works (sheltered area)
- South Campus Center
- Water Front Activity Center
- Please bring $3 by Friday, 9/26/08 to Kelly for food/snacks
Running SOTA Meetings (suggestions)
- Send out an e-mail to everyone a week or two ahead for possible items on the agenda
- For meeting topics that apply to all MOTS, have these at the beginning of the meeting
- Topics related only to 1st years or 2nd years should be held at the end, so members do not have to attend to items that are irrelevant to them
- Voting: majority rules
- If volunteers are needed for committees, events, and so on… information should be given ahead of time about responsibilities before members are asked to sign up
- This decreases the pressure to sign up for things on the spot
Football parking – Please sign up!!
- Please contact Kristi for available games to volunteer for
- Volunteering contributes to your class’ graduation fund
- Orientation
- Sat, 8/23/08, 10am-12pm, @ Johnson Hall, room 102
- For each person that attends, SOTA will receive $$ (great fundraiser!)
WOTA Conference Fri & Sat, 10/3/08 & 10/4/08
- After September 13th, ticket prices will increase
- $80 for one day
- $120 for two days
c/o 2009 Class Picture
- A class picture will be taken to give to the incoming class (cuz we’re just so darn cute!)
- Actually, it's so they can get to know us better ;p
Poverty & Kids Thur & Fri, 9/4/08 & 9/5/08
- A talk/information session
- If interested, please contact Katie K. for more information
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SOTA Meeting
6/4/08, Wednesday
New officers!
- c/o 2009 must e-mail Elizabeth to vote for president & treasurer positions (ekanny@u.washington.edu)
- Nominations are as follows
- President: Alison
- Treasurer: Kristi
Football Parking
- c/o 2009 must delegate this responsibility amongst themselves
- You can discuss via the SOTA discussion board (a post has been created for this topic): http://students.washington.edu/sota/discussion_boards.html
Activity idea: MOTS monthly brownbags
- Starting next quarter, students interested in certain topics can bring in guest speakers
- We can also use these monthly meetings for MOTS activities or get-togethers
- These monthly meetings are more for the 1st & 2nd years to mingle, get to know one another (cohesion—UW MOT pride!), talk about classes & the program, & connect with each other
- If you’re interested or have ideas, please visit the discussion board: http://students.washington.edu/sota/discussion_boards.html
Outreach/Shadow opportunity
- Community OTs are currently running group sessions at the Aloha Inn and are welcoming students that would like to co-lead or assist
- Group sessions are Monday nights
- Anne will send out more information about this
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SOTA Meeting
4/22/08, Tuesday
Graduating class of 2008: otz-of-08@u.washington.edu Graduating class of 2009: ot07@u.washington.edu
Job Fair money
- Raised over $30,000, which will be split in half with the PTs
- 60% of these funds will go to the class of 2008
- 40% of these funds will go to the class of 2009
- Exact figures will be e-mailed/posted later
Job Fair coordinators for next year
- Shari & Amanda (c/o 2009)
OT bags
- Volunteer from c/o 2009 needed to house OT bags & be in charge of them
Health Sciences Open House: Friday 9am-5pm & Saturday 10am-4pm (this week!)
- Volunteers still needed, please contact Anne ASAP: malma@u.washington.edu
Elections: President & Treasurer
- c/o 2008: Please contact Anne if you would like to run for either position
New WOTA Representative
New Snack Bar Committee
- Jessie, Francis, Kristi, Katie (c/o 2009) will take over during Summer quarter 2008
New Orientation Committee
- Kelly & Morgan (c/o 2009)
SOTA website maintenance
- Any ideas for how to pass this position along? Please contact Jennifer: unajen@u.washington.edu
Rebuild Together lunch $ was voted on & approved for coming Saturday’s event (4/26)
Rebuild Together assessment
- Waiting to hear back about a time & place for assessment
AOTA Conference update
- Please see the “AOTA Conference” section of this website
Outreach: Mother needs help with child with Autism
- More information will be provided in “Volunteer” section of this website
Outreach: “Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center”
- An equine-assisted therapy organization
- They are always in need of volunteers
- Please visit www.littlebit.org for more information
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SOTA Meeting
2/25/08, Monday
Elizabeth Kanny, SOTA advisor: ekanny@u.washington.edu Incoming class of 2006: otz-of-08@u.washington.edu Incoming class of 2007: ot07@u.washington.edu
Constitution
- New constitution was approved, which means…
- We’re now an official UW student organization! This gives us access to more resources
- Refer to the following link for information, such as: how much $ we have for photocopying, where to go for free prints, what facilities we have access to/can rent, etc.
- Student Activities Office: http://depts.washington.edu/sao/faqs_misc.php
Job fair: 4/5/08 (Saturday), 1-5pm at South Campus Center—room 316
- So far we have 36 recruiters & have collected $15,000
- Please come. The more people present, the better
- Volunteers needed
- 1-2 people for designing signs
- If interested, please contact Anne: malma@u.washington.edu
OT bags
- If you would like to purchase any, please fill out the form posted on the OT board on the 9th floor
- Or you can contact Morgan: morganb@u.washington.edu
Graduation
- 2nd years
- Meeting to be held tomorrow (2/26/08)
- 1st years
- Need to start planning soon
- Graduation location is sometimes at the Urban Horticulture
- If we want this location, it has to be booked at least a year in advance
- $500 to rent
- Graduation can also be held elsewhere
- Volunteers needed to start a Graduation Committee for 1st years
- 1st year listserve e-mail: ot07@u.washington.edu
AOTA Conference Representative
- 1st years need to decide how many people will be going & what the cost will be
- Morgan will contact the 1st years about this
- 1st years could consider setting aside some money for cheap t-shirts that can be sold at the conference (great fundraising idea that worked for other schools at the conference)
- Volunteers needed
- Decide budget
- Design t-shirts
- Tips on housing
- Try hotwire.com for cheap hotel room deals
- Hotel rooms can be found for certain rates, but the hotel location will not be known until you reach your destination
- Contact OT programs near Long Beach, CA to see if program participants may be willing to provide cheap housing for OT students
Parking fundraiser
- Amount raised for 2nd years: $616.93
- Amount raised for 1st years: $378.12
Legislative Day reimbursement
- Those that drove to the event will be reimbursed with a check
Incoming Students Project
- 1st years (Alison, Kelly, Katie, & others) are gathering information to assist the incoming class of 2008 in transitioning into the MOT program
- Information being gathered include: study tips, where to eat, where to get help with certain questions, and so on
- If anyone would like to contribute, please contact Alison (agabriel@u.washington.edu) or Katie (khklein@u.washington.edu)
Outreach: “Rebuilding Together”
- An organization that annually updates homes of people with disabilities
- Ex: retrofitting a house for wheelchair accessibility
- This year, the project date is set for the last Saturday of April (4/26)
- The WOTA president is in charge of this organization. He will contact SOTA about 2nd assessment on homes
- Rick will find out how many people can participate in this activity
- For more information, please contact Rick: cardo@u.washington.edu
Outreach: “Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center”
- An equine-assisted therapy organization
- They are starting orientation & training next week for the spring quarter and need plenty of volunteers
- Please visit www.littlebit.org or contact Katie (khklein@u.washington.edu) for more information
OT month is April
- Poster-board space, across from the Court Café, can be reserved for OT awareness
- Elizabeth has the OT poster-board
- Volunteers needed
- Need someone to reserve the space & post the poster-board
- If interested, please contact Elizabeth ekanny@u.washington.edu
- Booths
- Can have one at the HUB or Rotunda with OT items and information available
- Volunteers needed
- If interested, please contact Anne malma@u.washington.edu
- Article in the “Daily” about OT awareness
- If interested, please contact Morgan morganb@u.washington.edu
- Pens
- As a fundraiser & also for OT awareness
- If we are able to get it in bulk, we can have them customized
- Volunteers needed
- Designs
- If interested, please contact Alison agabriel@u.washington.edu
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SOTA Meeting
1/14/08, Monday
- Constitution changes
- Those that were present voted on changes to the constitution
- Those that weren’t present are encouraged to send their votes in via e-mail to Anne Malm (malma@u.washington.edu)
- Parking fundraiser
- A check for SOTA is on its way
- Snack bar fundraiser (for 2nd years)
- Snack bar is going well
- Those in charge are in the process of creating a sign-up list for us to alternate stocking the snack bar
- Job fair
- An e-mail will be sent out asking for volunteers
- Will most likely need help during the day of the job fair, but specifics will be given in the e-mail
- Graduation plans (for 2nd years)
- 2nd years will be contacted soon about this
- Legislative Day
- Takes place on 1/31
- 2nd years won’t be having class on this day
- SOTA will be providing gas money for those carpooling with 3 or more people
- The exact form of reimbursement (cash, gift card, or other) and amount is still being decided
- Outreach: “Rebuilding Together”
- An organization that annually updates homes of people with disabilities
- Ex: retrofitting a house for wheelchair accessibility
- This year, the project date is set for the last Saturday of April (4/26)
- More information about this outreach project will be given in the next meeting
- Spinal cord injury forum
- We have contacts for some women who are willing to come in to speak to SOTA about their experiences
- Please notify Anne if you are interested in this
- Chairs for committees
- We need chairs for the Fundraising Committee, Social Committee, Community Outreach Committee, Continuing Education Committee
- A sign-up sheet for this will be posted on the OT board by Tuesday (1/15)
Next Meeting: will probably be around the same time as today’s meeting (1/14, 12:15pm)
Note for officers: For future meetings, please send ideas for issues that need to be addressed to Anne beforehand.
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