Minutes: September 11, 2008

Officer Nominations

• The positions of vice president and treasurer are open for nomination. This is a great opportunity for new members to become involved. You can nominate yourself.
• Elections are October 3rd
• You can run for multiple offices, Run for VP first, then treasurer
• Officer Descriptions:
  
  President: Christofer McGinnis
  - Plans and runs meetings
  - Plans and organizes trips and events
  - Gathers information useful to members
  - Attends SAC meetings and voices the concerns of SSAB members
  - Main contact for those interested in SSAB
  
  Vice President: Open for Nomination
  - Assists president in planning and running meetings
  - Performs all duties of president in the event he/she is unavailable
  - Assists in the recruitment of new members
  - Prepares to eventually take over for the president when he/she graduates
  
  Secretary: Danillya Wilson
  - Takes minutes at meetings
  - Sends out minutes to members
  - Designs any informational flyers or advertisements
  
  Treasurer: Open for Nomination
  - Monitors bank account and reports on funds available and expenditures
  - Facilitates fundraising and acquires funding for special events
  
  Webmaster: Eddie Jesinsky
  - Maintains SSAB website and updates with new information
  - Improves communication through use of internet applications and social networks such as Facebook and its respective SSAB group

Internships

• Application deadlines and other important information.
• Very competitive, deadlines approaching:
  FBI
  - Deadline: September 30, 2008
  - Apply: http://www.fbijobs.gov/231.asp#4
  
  NSA
  - Deadline: October 15, 2008
  - Mostly for Computer Science/Math majors
  - Apply: http://www.nsa.gov/careers/students_1.cfm
  
  CIA
  - Deadline: November 1, 2008
  - Apply: https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/view-all-jobs/college-students-scientists-engineers-technology/index.html
  
  Research Opportunities
  - Peter with University

Volunteering

• Volunteer hours translate to more funds for SSAB to go on trips and other activities. We only had about 14 hours last year, so our account is at $200.00. We need more hours!
• FBI Opportunities
  - The partnership between the FBI: CJIS center and WVU will soon provide a number of volunteer and paid opportunities within the college. SSAB members will receive high priority.
  - 6 months to a year
  - Biometrics Collection for the FBI: trying to provide 1000 biometrics (comprehensive) - iris, fingerprints, face recognition
  - Paid positions for collectors
• Fall family weekend Fri and Sat lab tours (10/17 4-6) and picnic (10/18 around noon)

Fundraising

• Pizza Sale
  - Two locations: downtown and engineering - $1 slice/$1 can of soda
• Cell Phone collection: Donate old phone - worth/weight
• Mouse pads
• Ink Cartridges
• Speakers

Trip Info

• FBI: CJIS (Clarksburg, WV)
• DOD: Biometrics Fusion Center (Clarksburg, WV)
• NSA (Fort Meade, MD) - Spring Semester
• NBSP (Morgantown, WV)

Kelly Smith

• Founder of SSAB (2003) is coming to WVU Friday, October 3rd. She would like to meet with SSAB members.
• 2nd meeting and officer elections will be (tentatively) October 3rd as well