Minutes: September 9, 2009

Introductions

• Officers
• Everyone else

Guest Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Hornak

• What is biometrics?
• Biometric research at WVU
  - Data collections
  - Possible job/volunteering opportunities
• CITeR

How We Operate

• Brief history
• Volunteering Events/CCE (Center for Civic Engagement)
  - Peer networking
  - Trunk-or-Treat
  - Data collection
  - Engineering tent
  - Freshman visitation (PRT tours)
• Trips
  - Job networking
  - FBI/CJIS
  - NBSP (National Biometric Security Project)
  - NSA (Booze Allen)
  - BCC (Biometrcs Consortium Conference)
• Fundraising
  - T-shirts (memberships)
  - Pizza sales
• Membership
  - 2 types of members
  - Benefits of paid members
  - T-shirts ($15)
• Officer Nominations
  - End of the year
  - Paid members + active unpaid members vote
  - Officer requirements

Coming Up This Semester

• Ideal Innovations
  - Fairmont
  - Date: TBA
• NBSP (National Biometrics Security Project)
  - Date: TBA
• Career Fair: Sept 16
• BCC (Biometrics Consortium Conference): Tampa, FL
• Adopt-a-Game
  - Oct 24, Nov 7, Nov 27
• Deckers Creek Adventure Day: Oct 25
• Website Committee: Redesign
• Methods of communication/information sharing
  - Google group, Facebook group, Twitter